2 Amendments of Enrique CALVET CHAMBON related to 2014/2218(INI)
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) is an extraordinary and innovative tool for participatory democracy in the European Union, whose potential must be exploited fully and further enhanceduse of which must be improved, enhancing the levels of representation and practical aspects thereof, in order to achieve the best results;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that the organisation of public hearings is a very important way of examining problems raised by petitioners; wishes to draw attention to the public hearings organised with the Committee on the Environment in regard to the European Citizens’ Initiative on ‘Water is a Human Right’ and with the Committee on Legal Affairs for the ECI entitled ‘One of Us’; believes that the ECI is the firstan instrument in support of transnational participatory and representative democracy that will enable citizens to become actively involved in the framising of EU policies and prioritising of Europeand legislationve issues to be dealt with; reaffirms its commitment to being involved in organising public hearings for successful initiatives; undertakes to give priority, at institutional level, to the effectiveness of this participative process;