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Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2

(2) The system established by Regulation (EC) No 182/2011 has, overall, proven to work well in practice and struck an appropriate institutional balance as regards the roles of the Commission and the other actors involved. That system should therefore continue to function unchanged except for certain targeted amendments concerning specific aspects of procedure at the level of the appeal committee. These amendments are intended to ensure wider political accountability and ownership of politically sensitive implementing acts ~~without, however, modifying the legal and institutional responsibilities for implementing acts as organised by Regulation (EU) No 182/2011~~.

2017/06/19
Committee: AFCO

Gerolf ANNEMANS

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) While the Commission is empowered to decide in such cases, due to the particular sensitivity of the issues at stake, Member States should also fully assume their responsibility in the decision- making process. This, however, is not the case when Member States are not able to reach a qualified majority, due to, amongst others, a significant number of abstentions or non-appearances at the moment of the vote. The Commission, for its part, experiences great difficulties in assuming its decision-making powers and it is these difficulties that lie behind the proposition presented by the Commission.

2017/06/19
Committee: AFCO

Gerolf ANNEMANS

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8

(8) In order to increase the added value of the appeal committee its role should therefore be strengthened by providing ~~for the possibility of holding a fur~~that it vote unanimously. In fact, as ther meeting of the appeal committee whenever no opinion is delivered. The appropriate level of representation at the further meeting of the appeal committee should be ministerial level, to ensure a political discussion. To allow the organisation of such a further meeting the timeframe for the appeal committee to deliver an opinion should be extendedatters discussed within this committee are extremely sensitive and neither the Commission nor the Member States wish to assume responsibility for certain decisions, a power the Commission no longer wants should be withdrawn while the Member States should be made to act in accordance with their prerogatives. Unanimity will ensure that in regard to extremely political issues Member States cannot have unwelcome rules imposed on them.

2017/06/19
Committee: AFCO

Gerolf ANNEMANS

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9

(9) The voting rules for the appeal committee should be changed in order to reduce the risk of no opinion being delivered and to provide an incentive for Member State representatives to take a clear position. To this end only Member States which are present or represented, and which do not abstain, should be considered as participating Member States for the calculation of the qualified majority. In order to ensure that the voting outcome is representative a vote should only be considered valid if a simple majority of the Member States are participating members of the appeal committee. If the quorum is not reached before expiry of the time-limit for the committee to take a decision, it will be considered that the committee delivered no opinion, as is the case today.deleted

2017/06/19
Committee: AFCO

Gerolf ANNEMANS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)

4. Where no opinion is delivered, the Commission may adopt the draft implementing act, except in the cases provided for in the second subparagraph. Where the Commission does not adopt the draft implementing act, the chair may submit to the committee an amended version thereof. Without prejudice to Article 7, the Commission shall not adopt the draft implementing act where: (a) financial services, the protection of the health or safety of humans, animals or plants, or definitive multilateral safeguard measures; (b) the basic act provides that the draft implementing act may not be adopted where no opinion is delivered; or (c) a simple majority of the component members of the committee opposes it. In any of the cases referred to in the sec(1a) In Article 5, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following: "4. Where no opinion is delivered, the Commission shall not adopt the draft implementing act. The Commission shall then conduct consultations with the Member States. Fourteen days at the earliest and one month at the latest after the committee meeting, the Commissiond s~~ubparagraph, where an implementing act is deemed to be necessary, the chair may either submit an amended version of that act to the same committee within 2 months of the vote, or~~hall inform the committee members of the results of those consultations and submit ~~the~~a draft implementing act ~~within 1 month of the vote to the appeal committee for further deliber~~to the appeal committee. that act concerns taxation.,

2017/06/19
Committee: AFCO

Gerolf ANNEMANS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 b (new)

Regulation (EU) No 182/2011
Article 5 – paragraph 5

(1b) In Article 5, paragraph 5 is deleted.

2017/06/19
Committee: AFCO

Gerolf ANNEMANS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point -a (new)

Regulation (EU) No 182/2011
Article 6 – paragraph 1

~~1. The appeal committee shall deliver its opinion by the majority provided for in Article 5(1).~~(-a) Paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: "1. The appeal committee shall deliver a unanimous opinion."

2017/06/19
Committee: AFCO

Gerolf ANNEMANS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a a (new)

Regulation (EU) No 182/2011
Article 6 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2

(aa) In paragraph 3, the second subparagraph is deleted:

2017/06/19
Committee: AFCO

Gerolf ANNEMANS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b a (new)

Regulation (EU) No 182/2011
Article 6 – paragraph 4

(ba) Paragraph 4 is deleted.

2017/06/19
Committee: AFCO

Gerolf ANNEMANS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b b (new)

Regulation (EU) No 182/2011
Article 6 – paragraph 5

(bb) Paragraph 5 is deleted.

2017/06/19
Committee: AFCO

10 Amendments of Gerolf ANNEMANS related to 2017/0035(COD)

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