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Activities of Laurenţiu REBEGA related to 2016/2146(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

Activities of the Committee on Petitions 2015 (debate) RO
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2146(INI)

Amendments (13)

Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas 483 petitions were not considered admissible in 2015 and whereas there is still widespread confusion about the EU’s fields of activity as is shown by the high number of inadmissible petitions received (33.8%); whereas to remedy this situation, communication with citizens needs to be encouraged and improved and the different areas of responsibility – European, national and local – nthe principle of subsidiarity needs to be applied and the European institutions should be invited not to seedk to be explainedgo beyond their proper powers;
2016/10/24
Committee: PETI
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas petitioners tend to be citizens engaged in the improvement and future well-being of our societies; whereas the experience of these citizens in regard to the processing of their petitions may determine their perception of the EU institutions and respect for the right to petition contained in EU law;
2016/10/24
Committee: PETI
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas confidence in the system and in the European project as a whole has been dented by recent events in the United Kingdom, the humanitarian refugee crisis, the social and economic impact of the financial crisis, and the rise in xenophobia and racism throughout Europe; whereas the Committee on Petitions has the responsibility and the huge challenge of maintaining dialogue with EU citizens;deleted
2016/10/24
Committee: PETI
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas the Committee on Petitions is best able to show citizens what the European Union does for them and what solutions it can provide at European, national or local level; whereas the Committee on Petitions can do excellent work explaining the successes and benefits of the European project;deleted
2016/10/24
Committee: PETI
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
J. whereas the right to petition should enhance the European Parliament’s capacity to react, helping to resolve problems relating mainly to how EU legislation is applied, as petitions constitute a valuable source of information in detecting deficiencies in how EU legislation is applied; whereas petitions are a basic tool in the early detection of those Member States lagging behind in transposition of EU law;
2016/10/24
Committee: PETI
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Q. whereas a petition is often filed at the same time as a complaint to the Commission, which could lead to the initiation of infringement proceedings; whereas in 2015 the European Parliament alerted the Commission, through petitions and questions, of deficiencies in the way that some Member States were applying and implementing certain EU laws;deleted
2016/10/24
Committee: PETI
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
U. whereas the Commission intends to strengthen the application of EU legislation on the basis of transposition and systematic checks on compliance of national legislation; whereas the Commission will take appropriate measures, including launching new EU Pilot cases and infringement procedures, when it detects possible breaches of EU law;deleted
2016/10/24
Committee: PETI
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital X
X. whereas the key issues of concern raised in petitions pertain to a wide range of issues, such as environmental legislation (in particular, waste water treatment, waste management, gas and hydrocarbon prospection and extraction), health (particularly the effects of pesticides and access to medicines), the banking system, transport, agriculture, fundamental rights (in particular the rights of the child and of persons with disabilities), the free movement of persons, discrimination, immigration, employment, animal welfare, the application of justice (in particular custody rights regarding minors) and breaches of consumer rights;
2016/10/24
Committee: PETI
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AC
AC. whereas the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) has to be an important tool for enabling citizens to participate in the EU political decision-making process, and its potential must be exploited fully; whereas, as emerged from statements in the public hearing of 22 February 2015, there is a widespread feeling on the part of organisations processing an ECI that the administrative barriers need to be removed in order to obtain the best possible results in regard to participation by citizens; regrets that the European Citizens’ Initiative does not allow for the repeal of normative texts;
2016/10/24
Committee: PETI
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that petitions are very important for the legislative process, as they detect deficiencies in the transposition of Community legislation and provide other Parliament committees with useful and direct input for their legislative work in their respective fields; applauds the setting up of an informal petitions network within Parliament, with the participation of Members representing every committee of Parliament, in order to ensure smooth and effective coordination of petitions work; considers that petitions are not solely the responsibility of the Committee on Petitions, but should be a shared endeavour of all of the European Parliament’s committees; urges all parliamentary committees concerned to pay due attention to the petitions forwarded to them and to provide the information necessary for petitions to be processed properly;
2016/10/24
Committee: PETI
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the fact that in 2015 the time taken to process petitions fell, maintains nonetheless that the Secretariat of the Committee on Petitions is in need of greater technical resources and personnel in order to guarantee a reduction in the time taken to process petitions;
2016/10/24
Committee: PETI
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Deplores the strict way in which the Commission has interpreted Article 51 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights with its stipulation that ‘the provisions of the [...] Charter are addressed to the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity and to the Member States only when they are implementing Union law; recalls that, owing to the existence of Article 51 of the Charter, the expectations of citizens often go beyond what the Charter’s legal provisions strictly allow for; calls on the European Commission to adopt a new approach that is more consistent with those expectations;deleted
2016/10/24
Committee: PETI
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Points to the important ongoing work carried out by the Committee on Petitions in the context of the application of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; duly notes that 2015 was a very significant year in that for the first time a United Nations agency reviewed the fulfilment of human rights obligations in the EU; is pleased to note that a United Nations committee had the opportunity to hear all the details regarding the protection provided by the Committee on Petitions; underscores that the Commission has begun to incorporate the concluding observations by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities into the petition treatment process1; is pleased to note that the public hearing ‘Protecting the rights of people with disabilities, from the perspective of petitions received’ organised by the Committee on Petitions on 15 October 2015, was highly accessible; draws attention to the importance of the findings of the study commissioned by Policy Department C entitled ‘The protection role of the Committee on Petitions in the context of the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’; considers it important that the Committee on Petitions continues to organise events focusing on petitions in the field of disability; calls for the capacity of the Committee on Petitions and its Secretariat to be enhanced to enable it to properly fulfil its protection role; calls for the establishment of a designated officer responsible for the processing of disabilities-related issues; notes the Committee’s significant follow-up action in 2015 with regard to disability with respect to more specific topics such as the ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty (petition No 0924/2011), the unlocking of the anti-discrimination Directive (petition No 0360/2009), exemption from customs duties for certain products designed to promote the cultural, educational or scientific advancement of persons with disabilities (petition No 0240/2015) or family caregivers (petition No 0098/2015); __________________ 1 Adopted by the UN Committee at its 14nth session (17 August to 4 September 2015); see: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatyb odyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=C RPD%2fC%2fEU%2fCO%2f1&Lang=en
2016/10/24
Committee: PETI