9 Amendments of Markus BUCHHEIT related to 2020/2044(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the number of petitions remained modest in relation to the total population of the EU; whereas nevertheless this number indicates that a non-negligible proportion of EU citizens are aware of and exercise the right to petition;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas of the 1 357 petitions submitted in 2019, 938 were declared admissible, 406 were declared inadmissible and 13 were withdrawn; whereas the relatively high percentage (30 %) of inadmissible petitions in 2019 reveals that there is still a widespread lack of clarity about the EU’s fields of activity and the PETI Committee working mechanism;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas Parliament has long been at the forefront of the development of the petitions process internationally and has the most open and transparent petitions process in Europe together with the one of the United Kingdom, allowing petitioners to participate fully in its activities;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas in 2019 the Petitions Web Portal has been further developed into a responsive and user-friendly web design version, compliant with the new ‘look and feel’ of the European Parliament’s website (Europarl); whereas it has therefore become more user-friendly and accessible for citizens, who can now use it on any device; whereas the new privacy statement has been uploaded in all language versions in the email templates and on the registration page, and audio Captcha for registration of user accounts has been enabled; whereas the Petitions Web Portal and ePetition have been further integrated by improving their synchronisation mechanism; whereas a large number of individual support requests have been handled successfully;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the important role of the Committee on Petitions in defending and promoting the rights of EU citizens and residents, ensuring that petitioners’ concerns and complaints are examined in timely fashion and, wherever possible, resolved, through an open, democratic, agile and transparent petition process;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasizes the importance of a continuous public debate on the Union’s fields of activity aimed at informing citizens about the scope of the Union’s competences and the different levels of the decision-making, in order to process, with the purpose of reduceing the number of inadmissible petitions;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that petitions offer the opportunity to the European Parliament and other EU institutions to maintain a direct dialogue with EU citizens who are allegedly affected by the misapplication of EU law; stresses the need for enhanced cooperation between the EU institutions and national, regional and local authorities on inquiries regarding implementation of and compliance with EU law;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that transparency and public access to the documents of the EU institutions should be the rule in order to ensure the highest levels of protection and enlargement of the democratic rights of citizens;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Takes note that the environment was the main area of concern for petitioners in 2019; points in this regard to the motion for a resolution pursuant to Rule 227(2) on waste management, adopted on 21 March 2019 by the Committee on Petitions and on 4 April 2019 in plenary6 ; stresses that waste management is one of the main global socio-economic and environmental challenges, and reiterates its call for a reduction in waste generation, the boosting of reuse and recycling and better implementation of waste legislation by Member States with a particular focus on the economic sustainability; _________________ 6 Texts adopted, P8_TA(2019)0338.