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Motion for a resolution
Citation 19

~~– having regard to European Court of Auditors (ECA) Special Report No 17/2017 of November 2017 on the Commission’s intervention in the Greek financial crisis,~~deleted

2018/03/02
Committee: JURI

Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that the large number of infringement procedures in 2016 shows that ensuring the timely and correct application of EU legislation in the Member States remains a serious challenge and priority; ~~considers that some of those infringements are the result of the lack of resources dedicated to public administration in some Member States, sometimes as a result of ill-advised austerity measures;~~

2018/03/02
Committee: JURI

Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Underlines the fact that the number of new complaints is at its highest since 2011, with a record number of 3 783 new complaints; notes in addition that the areas of 'employment' and 'justice and consumers' are the most affected; recalls that the improper application or transposition of EU law by the Member States can considerably reduce consumers' and employees' rights;

2018/03/02
Committee: JURI

Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the fall in the number of new EU Pilot files opened in 2016 (790 compared with 881 in 2014); notes, however, that the resolution rate fell slightly compared with 2015 (from 75 % to 72 %); recalls, however, that the Commission does not undertake any EU Pilot procedures in the event of the late transposition of directives;

2018/03/02
Committee: JURI

Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Recalls in addition the special role of the social partners and civil society in creating legislation, in reporting shortcomings and in the transposition and application of EU law by the Member States;

2018/03/02
Committee: JURI

Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Stresses that Memoranda of Understanding concluded between the EU institutions and Member States are not considered EU acts~~, even if Member States are obliged thereunder to implement fiscal and tax policies for severe cutbacks~~ pursuant to Article 288 TFEU;

2018/03/02
Committee: JURI

Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Notes that the duties conferred on the Commission and the European Central Bank (ECB) within the Treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), important as they are, do not entail any power to make decisions of their own, and that the activities pursued by those two institutions within the ESM Treaty commit the ESM alone and not the EU institutions9; _________________ 9deleted Idem, paragraph 51.

2018/03/02
Committee: JURI

Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Points out that major decisions for the EU, the Member States and its people, such as decisions on national budgets and reforms, are usually prepared in almost complete opacity and taken by ministers without adherence to basic transparency principles, often after very limited discussions and with no formal rules10; regrets that there is no accountability to Parliament for those decisions11and encourages the competent institutions to change this situation; _________________ 10See, inter alia: http://www.pierremoscovici.fr/2017/09/02/ my-speech-at-the-ambrossetti-forum-the- future-of-the-euro/ 11deleted Ibid.

2018/03/02
Committee: JURI

Activities of Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN related to 2017/2273(INI)

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