11 Amendments of Daniel BUDA related to 2014/2253(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas Article 51 CFREU limits Member States’ obligation of compliance with the Charter to situations where they are implementing EU law, but does not provide for such a limitation of the obligations stemming from the Charter for EU institutions, bodies, offices or agencies;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 1 – point 1 (new)
(1) points out also that the Commission has competence for the procedure concerning non-fulfilment by Member States of their obligations to transpose Community provisions in a proper, effective, correct and timely manner, in accordance with Articles 258 to 260 TFEU;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the provisions/adoption of the Commission’s 30th and 31st annual reports on the application of EU law, and notes that, according to these reports, the main fields in which Member States have failed to correctly implement EU law during the year 2012 were transport, protection of health and consumers, protection of the environment, and issues related to the internal market and services, whereas in 2013 the most problematic areas were the environment, protection of health and consumers, the internal market and services, and transport;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the decrease in late transposition infringements in 2012 compared to the previous year was mainly due to the fact that there were less directives to transpose in 2012 compared to the previous years; recognises, however, that the statistics for the year 2013 show a real decrease in late transposition infringements, with the number of such infringements reaching a 5-year low at the end of that year, which could be seen as a positive outcome of the introduction in Article 260(3) TFEU of the ‘fast-track’ procedure for penalties in cases of non- transpositDoes not affect the English version;.
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that the increase in the number of new EU Pilot files, relating in particular to the environment, taxation and customs union, judicial affairs, the internal market and services, 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 and effective nor subject to any real control by the complainants and the interested parties, and regrets that, despite its repeated requests, Parliament still has limited and inadequate access to information about the EU Pilot procedure and pending cases;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recognises that the primary responsibility for the correctproper implementation, transposition and application of EU law lies with Member States, but points out that this does not absolve EU institutions of their duty to respect primary EU law when they produce secondary EU law, or decide, implement and impose on Member Stregulates social, economic or other policies in accordance with their powers under the Treaties;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Expresses its concern that the strict austerity measures which EU institutions imposed on over-indebted EU Member States, and which were subsequently incorporated in acts of secondary EU law before being transposed to domestic legislation, during the period covered by the two annual reports under examination, in particular the drastic cuts on public spending, have had the effect of reducing significantly the capacity of Member States’ administration and judiciary to assume their responsibility to properly implement correctly EU law; further points out that some policies imposed on Member States, such as privatisation of public assets, constitute direct violation of principles on which the EU is founded (Article 345 TFEU provides that Member States retain sovereign competence as regards their choice of systems of property ownership);
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Questions the oft-expressed view of the Commission to the effect that the Memoranda of Understanding are not EU acts and that the CFREU is therefore not applicable to them,4 and wishes to point out that all EU institutions, even when they act as members of groups of international lenders (‘troikas’), are bound by the Treaties and the CFREU; regrets that the annual reviews by the Commission, the ECB and the CouncilIMF of economic adjustment programmes for members of the euro area have imposed on EU Member States obligations which run contrary to the objectives and values of the Union as expressed in the Treaties and the CFREU; __________________ 4 See, for instance, the Commission’s answers to written questions by Members of the European Parliament: E-7535/2014, E-7778/2014 and E-10616/2014.
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes, therefore, with regret that the CouncilIMF, the Commission and the ECB do not always themselves respect the Treaties, nor do they assist Member States with the correctproper implementation of EU law, thus by their practice severely undermining popular support for the EU and beliefpublic confidence in its legitimacy;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Encourages the EU institutions to assume their duty to respect primary EU law when they create rules of secondary EU law or decide policies in a number of areas, and also to assume their duty to assist, by all means available, EU Member States in their efforts to respect the values and the principles of the Union in times of austerity and budgetaryeconomic constraints;