Activities of Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA related to 2020/2262(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on European Union regulatory fitness and subsidiarity and proportionality - report on Better Law Making covering the years 2017, 2018 and 2019
Amendments (14)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas in July 2017 the Juncker Commission adopted a revised set of better regulation guidelines and an accompanying toolbox; whereas it expanded its better regulation portal to make it easier for citizens to navigate it online; whereas it undertook to place subsidiarthe principles of subsidiarity and proportionality at the heart of the European democratic process and throughout the legislative process by setting up a Task Force on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and ‘Doing Less More Efficiently’, which delivered its report on 10 July 2018;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the absence of reasoned opinions from national parliaments in 2019 was not due to better implementation of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, but rather to the fact that 2019 was a transitional year between two Commissions and with the dissolution of the European Parliament and the holding of European elections, and therefore one with fewer legislative initiatives and proposals than in previous years;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the current crisis has strengthened the need to alleviate the unnecessary regulatory burdens to make sure that EU laws deliver their intended benefits while reducing unnecessary costs, particularlyand bureaucratic burdens that exist in EU laws; whereas it is essential that Community laws reduce superfluous costs and deliver their intended benefits within reasonable time- scales, and particularly that they expedite support measures for small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs); and for workers;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the mechanisms available to the Institutions for guaranteeing observance of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality are not sufficiently effective, and whereas those mechanisms should continue to develop as Community law swells in order to ensure the Union does not prevent the Member States from freely exercising their national sovereignty;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Believes that the REFIT platform should be expanded to widen its focus from regulatory burdens to matters of subsidiarity and proportionality; warns against the rigid application by the Commission of aencourages the Commission to reduce as much as possible red tape or any kind of burden to businesses and EU citizens going even beyond the ‘one in, one out’ principle in the implementation of betterany law-making processes.
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the principle of subsidiarity enshrined in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union aims to ensure that decisions are taken as closely as possible to citizens and that constant checks are carried out to verify that action at EU level is justified in the light of the possibilities available at national, regional or local level and to guarantee that the EU does not take action, except in the areas that fall within its exclusive competence, unless it is more effective than action taken at national, regional or local level; recalls, too, that the principle of proportionality requires that any action taken by the EU should not go beyond what is strictly necessary to achieve the objectives of the Treaties;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that any Community activity, besides observing the principles of proportionality and subsidiarity, must not misuse the legislative acts provided for in the Treaties; points out that the Union’s activities must be geared towards simplifying and paring down those regulations that restrict the political freedom of the Member States and which ultimately are detrimental to the lives of the citizens;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Acknowledges the fact that 2019 was the first year since the introduction of the Subsidiarity Control Mechanism in which national parliaments did not submit any reasoned opinions, as a result of a sharp drop in the Commission’s legislative activities during the transitional year between two Commissions, meaning that the absence of reasoned opinions stemmed from the lack of legislative activity rather than from observance of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality in Union legislative acts;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that in 2017 the Regulatory Scrutiny Board examined a total of 53 impact assessments, that in 12 cases it estimated that it was necessary to improve their analysis of subsidiarity and EU added value, and that 30 opinions contained comments on proportionality; notes that in 2018 it examined 75 impact assessments, that in 16 cases it was necessary to improve their analysis of subsidiarity and EU added value, and that 47 opinions contained remarks aimed at improving the analysis of proportionality and comparisons of policy options; underlinesconsiders it regretful that in 2019 the board examined only one impact assessment;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls for the mechanisms for ensuring observance of the principles of conferral, subsidiarity and proportionality in the activities of the Union to be reformulated and strengthened and, above all, for the procedures and resources available to the Member States to be improved, simplified and enhanced so that they have a solid base on which to oppose EU decisions and legislative acts that undermine those principles or counteract their national sovereignty;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the Commission's commitment to the ‘one-in, one-out’ approachprinciple based on stakeholder involvement, through which the Commission aims tomust offset newly introduced burdens by relieving people and businesses of equivalent burdens at EU level in the same policy area; emphasises, however, that the implementation of this approach should not lead to mechanical decisions to repeal legislation or lower standards;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Believes that the REFIT platform should be enlarged and move beyond regulatory burdens to matters of subsidiarity and proportionality; encourages the Commission to make the maximum possible cuts to red tape and any kind of burden to businesses and EU citizens, including by going further than the ‘one in, one out’ principle in all EU law-making processes.