16 Amendments of Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO related to 2016/2908(RSP)
Amendment 1 #
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard to Directive 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2008 on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe,
Amendment 24 #
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the Commission to review in 2017 the conformity factor for RDE tests of NOx emissions, as provided for by the 2nd RDE package, and to phase-out the conformity factor, allowing only for the measuring accuracy;
Amendment 29 #
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Asks the Commission to set more strict limits for NOx emissions since air pollution is the largest environmental health hazard in Europe, resulting in a lower quality of life due to illnesses and an estimate of thousands premature deaths per year;
Amendment 39 #
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls for a more formal approach and clearer rules about contacts of Commission officials with lobbyists and for the proper implementation of the rules;
Amendment 40 #
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls upon Member States to introduce or strengthen the regulation of lobby activities of, in particular, the car manufacturing industries and thus to ensure that public health and other public interests are well represented in their national decision-making procedures;
Amendment 57 #
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to strictly monitor the enforcement by Member States of the exemptions to the use of defeat devices and to issue detailed interpretative guidelines; calls on the Commission to launch infringements procedures if it deems them necessaryagainst those countries having authorized vehicles using illegal defeat devices, as the evidence collected shows that national authorities were complicit in their unlawful authorization;
Amendment 74 #
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Urges the Commission in this respect to examine how competition among type approval authorities and among testing services can be eliminated, for example, by restricting the choice of car manufacturers to authorities and testing services to those in the Member State in which the car manufacturers' main offices are located.
Amendment 75 #
Paragraph 21
21. Believes that the new framework for EU type-approval should empower the Commission to verify type approvals by asking Member States to retesting vehicles and to initiate corrective measures where necessarynever Member States do not follow up any such requests;
Amendment 144 #
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36a. Asks the Commission and Member States to take all necessary measures to ensure that consumers will be adequately compensated, including through mechanisms of collective redress;
Amendment 158 #
Paragraph 37 a (new)
37a. Considers that it is vital for exercise of democratic control over the executive for the Parliament to be empowered with powers of inquiry that match those of national parliaments of the EU; believes that in order to exercise this role of democratic oversight the Parliament must have the power to summon and compel witnesses to appear and compel the production of documents; believes that in order for these rights to be exercised the Member States must agree to implement sanctions against individuals for failure to appear or produce documents in line with national law governing national parliamentary inquiries; reiterates the Parliament's support for the position outlined in the 2012 report on this issue;
Amendment 165 #
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38a. Considers that the operating period of any inquiry committee should be synchronised with the legislative processes relating to the subject under investigation;
Amendment 167 #
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41a. Notes that in several recent committees of inquiry and special committees, the Commission and Council have in some cases failed to provide the documents requested and in other cases provided the requested documents only after long delays; considers that there must be an accountability mechanism introduced in order to ensure the immediate and guaranteed transfer of documents to the Parliament that the committee of inquiry or special committee requests and is entitled to access;
Amendment 171 #
Paragraph 45
45. Notes that Rule 198 of Parliament’s Rules of Procedure should define more clearly when the 12-month duration of a committee of inquiry should start; suggests to have enough flexibility to ensure that there is enough time for the investigations; calls for the inquiry committee work to start only after the requested documents are received from the EU institutions;
Amendment 172 #
Paragraph 46
Amendment 177 #
Paragraph 48 a (new)
48a. Notes that inquiry committees are temporary committees overlapping with the members' standing committee work and therefore requests flexibility of using members outside of the inquiry committee to cover the absence of any member or substitute member;
Amendment 180 #
Paragraph 50
50. Notes that accredited parliamentary assistants are not allowed to consultthe current rules for accessing classified and other confidential information made available by Council, Commission or Member States to the European Parliament in the context of an inquiry do not provide full legal clarity but are generally interpreted as excluding parliamentary assistants (APAs) from consulting and analysing non- classified ‘other confidential information’ in a secure reading room under the current rules; notes that somea range of Members found that this rule stands in the way of effective and thorough consultation of such documents within the limited time available to committees of inquiry, and that the TAX2 committee, during which access was temporarily and exceptionally granted to APAs, was able to make use of these resources in a more comprehensive and effective manner; calls therefore for the introduction of a clearly worded provision guaranteeing the right of access to documents for APAs on the basis of the 'need to know' principle, in their support role for Members, in a renegotiated Inter- institutional Agreement; urges the relevant bodies to expedite the renegotiation of this point so as not to hamper the effectiveness and efficiency of future and ongoing parliamentary inquiries;