BETA

Activities of Marie-Christine BOUTONNET related to 2015/2326(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

2014 Annual report on monitoring the application of Union law (A8-0262/2016 - Heidi Hautala) FR
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2326(INI)

Amendments (14)

Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas Article 17 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) defines the fundamental role of the Commission as ‘guardian of the Treaties;deleted
2016/04/05
Committee: JURI
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas, according to Article 6(1) TEU, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFREU) has the same legal value as the Treaties, and is addressed to the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union and the Member States when they are implementing Union law (Article 51(1) CFREU);deleted
2016/04/05
Committee: JURI
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas the Framework Agreement on Relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission provides for sharing of information concerning all infringement procedures based on letters of formal notice, but does not cover the informal EU Pilot procedure which precedes the opening of formal infringement proceedings;
2016/04/05
Committee: JURI
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the Commission is, according to Article 17 TEU, responsible for ensuring the application of Union law, including the CFREU (Article 6(1) TEU), the provisions of which are addressed to the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union and to the Member States when they are implementing Union law;deleted
2016/04/05
Committee: JURI
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises that the primary responsibility for the correct implementation and application of EU law lies with the Member States, but points out that this does not absolve the EU institutions of their duty to respectPoints out that the EU institutions are required to comply with EU primary EU law when they produceadopt secondary EU law or impose policies on the Member States;
2016/04/05
Committee: JURI
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that the EU institutions are bound by the subsidiarity principle and must not encroach on the prerogatives of the Member States; calls for closer dialogue with the national parliaments, in particular when they express concerns about compliance with the subsidiarity principle;
2016/04/05
Committee: JURI
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission, when drafting and assessing legislation, to take greater account of the burden it may impose on SMEs;
2016/04/05
Committee: JURI
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. WelcomNotes the Commission’s 32nd ‘Annual Report on Monitoring the Application of EU Law’, and notes that environment, transport, and internal market and services were the policy areas in 2013 in which most infringement cases remained open in 2014;
2016/04/05
Committee: JURI
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the need to maintain a high level of environmental protection and warns against the tendency to associate frequent instances of infringements with a need to reduce the level of ambition of environmental legislation;
2016/04/05
Committee: JURI
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Believes and reiterates that the increase in the number of new EU Pilot files during the period under examination, and the decrease in the number of open infringement cases, show that enforcement of EU law is neither sufficiently transparent nor subject to any real control by the complainants and the interested parties, and regrets that, despite its repeated requests, Parliament still has inadequate access to information about the EU Pilot procedure and pending cases;deleted
2016/04/05
Committee: JURI
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Deplores, more specifically, the fact that there has been no follow-up to its call for binding rules in the form of a regulation setting out the various aspects of the infringement and pre-infringement procedure – including notifications, binding time limits, the right to be heard, the obligation to state reasons, and the right for every person to have access to his or her file – so as to reinforce citizens’ rightthe rights of natural or legal persons from the Member States and guarantee transparency;
2016/04/05
Committee: JURI
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Recalls, in this context, that the Committee on Legal Affairs has set up a new Working Group on Administrative Law which has decided to elaborate an actual draft regulation on the administrative procedure of the Union’s administration as a ‘source of inspiration’ for the Commission, not in order to question the Commission’s right of initiative, but to show that such a regulation would be both useful and feasible to enacadopt;
2016/04/05
Committee: JURI
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that the intent of this draft regulation is not to replace existing EU legislation, but rather to supplement this when there are gaps, and to bring more clarity and coherence to the interpretation of existing rules, for the benefit of citizepersons and businesses from the Member States and of the administration and its officials;
2016/04/05
Committee: JURI
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to make compliance with EU law a real political priority, to be pursued in close collaboration with Parliament, which has a duty (a) to keep the Commission politically accountable and (b), as co- legislator, to make sure that it is itself fully informed, with a view to constantly improving its legislative work;deleted
2016/04/05
Committee: JURI