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Plenary speeches (1)

Better regulation: joining forces to make better laws (debate)
2022/07/07
Dossiers: 2021/2166(INI)

Shadow opinions (1)

Better regulation: Joining forces to make better laws
2022/03/18
Committee: AFCO
Dossiers: 2021/2166(INI)
Documents: PDF(147 KB) DOC(55 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Helmut SCHOLZ', 'mepid': 96646}]

Legal basis opinions (0)

Amendments (14)

Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the efforts to consolidate the consultation process and the commitment to report on each public consultation within eight weeks of its closure; calls for improved systematic assessments of public consultations and for the Commission to increase its outreach activities and measures to promote greater participationto promote greater participation; urges the Commission to ensure better involvement of national, regional and local authorities;
2022/02/17
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates that there is a need to fullyits call to facilitate and engage citizens’ participation in the EU decision- making process; reiterates its call for the establishment of permanent participatory mechanisms to further facilitate and engage citizens’ participation in the EU decision-making process which is founded on representative democracy; supports awareness-raising activities for these mechanisms and highlights the need to establish them at the national, regional and local levels for adequate horizontal and vertical coordination among institutions at different levels;
2022/02/17
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 17 #
A. whereas better law-making is a common goal for all EU Institutions, and should be achieved by increasing transparency, accountability and cooperation between the institutions and Member States, citizens and stakeholders, ensuring full respect of all fundamental European values, including democracy, the rule of law and human rights; whereas legislation should be fit for purpose, balanced, clear, transparent and comprehensive in order to benefit citizens and stakeholders;
2022/03/09
Committee: JURI
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4a (new)
4a (new) Stresses that the functioning of the European Union is founded on representative democracy;
2022/02/17
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas better law-making must aim tois aimed at serveing the EU’s political ambitions, especially its long-term objectives, such as social progress and the binding objective of Union climate neutrality by 2050, and the long-term priority objective for 2050 that citizens live well, within the limits of our planet; whereas sustainability should be at the heart of quality law-making, placing social, environmental and economic considerations on an equal footinggoals; whereas a more effective and thorough implementation of ‘doing less more efficiently’ approach is needed and therefore, an improved application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;
2022/03/09
Committee: JURI
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls the commitment of all three institutions to setting up a joint legislative 11 OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43. register; insists on the need to make this joint portal fully operational and transparent as soon as possible and to include all publicly disclosed documents under Regulation (EU) 1049/2001 automatically; deplores the persistent lack of transparency in the Council’s decision- making process and the practice of over- classifying documents and applying an excessively broad interpretation of the exceptions included under Regulation (EU) 1049/2001;
2022/02/17
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
I a. Whereas the functioning of the European Union is founded on representative democracy;
2022/03/09
Committee: JURI
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to making better use of foresight, mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals in all its legislative proposals, in line with the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, to paying greater attention to gender equality and equality for all, and to ensuring that the ‘do no significant harm’ and precautionary principles are applied across all policy areas; calls for the Commission to clearly define the ‘do no significant harm’ principle in order to ensure its consistent application; welcomes the proposal that sustainability and digitalisation should be better taken into account in law-making; calls on the Commission to implement a ‘sustainability first’ approach;deleted
2022/03/09
Committee: JURI
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for the need take into full consideration the Conference on the Future of Europe’s deliberations on the participation of citizens in the EU decision-making process, in particular the recommendations of the Citizens Panel No 2, in particular sub stream 4.2, No 29, No 32, sub stream 2.1, No 10 and No 11 thereof;deleted
2022/02/17
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Calls on the Commission and the Council to respect the Treaties and the division of competences between the EU and the Member States;
2022/03/09
Committee: JURI
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the mainstreaming of children’s rights in EU legislation; calls in this regard for the introduction of a children’s rights test in impact assessments and for the launch of more public consultations addressed to children and adolescent without prejudice to the principle of subsidiarity and the applicable national legal provisions;
2022/03/09
Committee: JURI
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for impact assessments to be performed on all actlegislative proposals, without exception; regrets that this was not the case for several politically sensitive proposals in the past; recalls that on several occasions Parliament has carried out its own impact assessments in replacement of the Commission’s; nevertheless, recalls that impact assessments help to inform but do not replace political decision-making process which is founded on representative democracy;
2022/03/09
Committee: JURI
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Notes that currently see many legislative initiatives being prepared by the Commission imposing new burdens on entrepreneurs, propose that each new legislative initiative that burdens businesses should remove at least two other;
2022/03/09
Committee: JURI
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Stresses the importance of easy access for citizens to the sources of law, which is currently difficult in relation to EU law, because and the need to create a single transparent website where the entire legislative process and additional documents of all EU institutions can be followed;
2022/03/09
Committee: JURI