4 Amendments of Siôn SIMON related to 2015/2283(INI)
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes, nevertheless, that it is important to raise the awareness of national parliaments on subsidiarity issues and to support them with tools permitting information exchange; stresses that, especially sincewelcomes the commitment of the European Commission to its 'Evaluate First' approach, but stresses that the volume of reasoned opinions received from national parliaments in 2014 remained unchanged in proportion to the number of Commission proposals, a mechanism should be developed for the participation of national parliaments in the EU legislative process despite the use of this policy- making approach;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes, nevertheless, that it is important to raise the awareness ofsupport national parliaments on subsidiarity issues and to support them with tools permitting information exchange; stresses that, especially since the volume of reasoned opinions received from national parliaments in 2014 remained unchanged in proportion to the number of Commission proposals, a mechanism should be developed for the participation of national parliaments in the EU legislative process;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that the period of eight weeks given to national parliaments to issue a reasoned opinion under Article 6 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality should be extended significantlymeasured flexibly, recalling that any modification of the deadline may necessarily imply a change to the Treaties;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the Commission should provide an adequate response to the request by a number of national chambers for a stronger subsidiarity control procedure; supports the request made by some national chambers to play a more crucial role, by proposing that the Commission should be bound to withdraw or amend its proposal when a yellow card is triggemore formally including national parliaments in the EU's legislative procedured; believes, at the same time, that the idea of a ‘'green card’' should be considered as one means of raising the participation and activity of national parliaments in the EU legislative process.