8 Amendments of Dino GIARRUSSO related to 2017/0035(COD)
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The system established by Regulation (EC) No 182/2011 has, overall, proven to work well in practice and struck an appropriate institutional balance as regards the roles of the Commission and the other actors involved. That system should therefore continue to function unchanged except for certain targeted amendments concerning specific aspects of procedure at the level of the appeal committee. These amendments are intended to ensure wider political accountability and ownership of politically sensitive implementing acts, in particular taxation, animal health and welfare, food security, environmental protection and climate change, without, however, modifying the legal and institutional responsibilities for implementing acts as organised by Regulation (EU) No 182/2011.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In a number of specific cases, Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 provides for referral to the appeal committee. In practice, the appeal committee has been seized in cases where no qualified majority, either in favour or against, was attained within the committee in the context of the examination procedure and thus no opinion was delivered. In the majority of cases this happened in relation to genetically modified organisms and genetically modified food and feed, animal health and welfare and plant protection products with regard to which the precautionary principle should be applied.
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) While the Commission is empowered to decide in such cases, due to the particular sensitivity of the issues at stake, Member States should also fully assume their responsibility in the decision- making process. This, however, is not the case when Member States are not able to reach a qualified majority, due to, amongst others, a significant number of abstentions or non-appearances at the moment of the vote.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The voting rules for the appeal committee should be changed in order to reduce the risk of no opinion being delivered and to provide an incentive for Member State representatives to take a clear position. To this end only Member States which are present or represented, and which do not abstain, should be considered as participating Member States for the calculation of the qualified majority. In order to ensure that the voting outcome is representative a vote should only be considered valid if a simple majority of the Member States are participating members of the appeal committee. If the quorum is not reached before expiry of the time-limit for the committee to take a decision, it will be considered that the committee delivered no opinion, as is the case today.
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Transparency on the composition of the appeal committee and on the votes of Member State representatives at the appeal committee levelwithin it should be increased and, making public the individual Member State representatives' votes should be made public.
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 182/2011
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(1a) In paragraph 4(2), point (a) is amended as follows: ‘(a) that act concerns taxation, financial services, the protection of the health or, welfare and safety of humans, animals orand plants, or and definitive multilateral safeguard measures; or the granting of an authorisation for a product or substance;’ Or. it (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32011R0182&from=fr#d1e399-13-1)
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Regulation (EU) No 182/2011
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
"However, only members of the appeal committee who are present or represented at the time of the vote, and do not abstain from voting, shall be considered as participating members of the appeal committee. The majority referred to in Article 5(1) shall be the qualified majority referred to in Article 238(3) (a) TFEU. A vote shall only be considered to be valid if a simple majority of the Member States are participating members."; (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32011R0182&from=fr)Or. it
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point -a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point -a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 182/2011
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
(-a) in paragraph 1, the introductory part is replaced by the following: "1. The Commission shall keep a public register of committee proceedings which shall contain: Or. it (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32011R0182&from=fr#d1e557-13-1)