6 Amendments of Jasenko SELIMOVIC related to 2017/0220(COD)
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) Since Article 48(2) TEU confers to the Commission the right to submit to the Council proposals for the amendment of the Treaties, any such proposal should be regarded as a legal act of the Union for the purpose of implementing the Treaties.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) To ensure the effective participation of citizens in the democratic life of the Union, the Commission should examine a valid initiative and respond to it. The Commission should therefore set out its legal and political conclusions as well as the action it intends to take within a period of five months from the receipt of the initiative. The Commission should explain in a clear, comprehensible and detailed manner the reasons for its intended action, and should likewise give its reasons if it does not intend to take any action. A valid initiative should not affect the Commission’s right of initiative.
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) The support and funding for initiatives should be transparent. Therefore groups of organisers should provide updated and detailed information on the sources of support and funding for their initiatives between the date of registration and the date at which the initiative is submitted to the Commission. Those groups of organisers should report on all of their sources of funding and the Commission should make those sources clearly apparent on the register. Entities, notably organisations which under the Treaties contribute to forming European political awareness and expressing the will of citizens of the Union, should be able to promote and provide support and funding to initiatives, provided that they do so in accordance with the procedures and conditions laid down by this Regulation and with full transparency. In order to enhance the transparency of financing of ECI activities and the visibility of the ECI as a tool for the engagement of citizens, this regulation should be endowed with its own financial Programme.
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
The Commission shall make available an online collaborative platform providing citizens and groups of organisers with a discussion forum and information and advice about the European citizens’ initiative, including information about organisations that are able to provide further technical and legal support as well as about other forms of support available in the Member States.
Amendment 186 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. In the event of a successful citizens’ initiative, the Commission shall, within 12 months after the publication of the initiative, submit to the European Parliament and to the Council a proposal in response to the initiative. If the Commission considers that there are good reasons not to submit a legislative proposal, it shall clearly and thoroughly justify its decision.
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Structure of the ECI Programme and supported actions In order to achieve its objectives, the Programme shall finance, inter alia, the following types of action: (a) the development and improvement of the ECI IT systems, including in particular the ECI Register, the central online collection system and the online collaborative platform; (b) the communication, administration and support of ECI activities that aim to eliminate existing hurdles to citizens using the ECI and to harmonise further the procedure and requirements for the submission of ECIs across the Union; (c) the provision of legal advice directly linked to the registration process that has been obtained before the registration of an ECI in line with the provisions of Article 6 of this Regulation; (d) the provision of translations of the registered initiatives and organisation of meetings with the initiatives’ organisers;