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REPORT on amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure implementing the parliamentary reform “Parliament 2024”
Amendments (22)
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a decision
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Commits to engage with the Commission to commence a review of the 2010 Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission in light of the following amendments;
Amendment 127 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 47 – paragraph 3
Rule 47 – paragraph 3
3. Parliament's resolution shall indicateWhere the President has not referred the proposal to the committee responsible for legal affairs for an opinion on the appropriateness of the legal basis and shall be accompanied by recommendations concerning, the committee responsible for the subject-matter shall request such an opinion from theat content of the required proposalmmittee, which must be delivered in a swift manner.
Amendment 129 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 47 – paragraph 4
Rule 47 – paragraph 4
4. WThere a proposal has financial implications, Parliament shall indicate how sufficient financial resources can be provided committee responsible for budgetary issues may provide an opinion on the potential financial implications of the proposal. It shall provide such an opinion if so requested by the committee responsible for the subject-matter. That opinion must be delivered in a swift manner.
Amendment 133 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 48 – title
Rule 48 – title
Amendment 134 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 48 – paragraph 1
Rule 48 – paragraph 1
1. The President shall refer proposals for legally binding acts received from other institutions or Member States to the committee responsible, for consideration. The other committee or to up to two committees responsible pursuant to Rule 58 for consideration. The President may at the same time refer proposals to one or more committees for them to draft an opinion pursuant to Rule 56. The other committees and political groups shall be informed of the referral at the same time.
Amendment 138 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 48 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Rule 48 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Within two weeks of the referral, a committee or a political group may challenge the President’s referral to the committee responsible. In such a case, that committee or group shall provide a detailed written justification and a substantiated alternative based on Annex VI at least one week before the next meeting of the Conference of Presidents. The Conference of Presidents may decide to request a recommendation on the matter from the Conference of Committee Chairs. The Conference of Committee Chairs or its Chair shall adopt a recommendation at its next meeting. The Conference of Presidents shall take a decision on the final referral at its earliest possible meeting after the transmission by the Conference of Committee Chairs of its recommendation. If no committee or political group challenges the President’s referral to the committee responsible within the deadline laid down in the first subparagraph, the President’s referral shall be considered to be final.
Amendment 145 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 48 – paragraph 2
Rule 48 – paragraph 2
2. In cases of doubt, the President may, before the announcement in Parliament of a referral to the committee responsible, submit a question concerning competence toreferral provided for in paragraph 1, decide to request a recommendation on the question of competence from the Conference of Committee Chairs. The Conference of Committee Chairs or its Chair shall adopt that recommendation at its next meeting. After receiving the recommendation, the President shall make the referral. Political groups shall be informed of the referral at the same time. Within two weeks of the referral, a political group may challenge the President’s referral to a committee responsible. In such a case, that group shall provide a detailed written justification and a substantiated alternative based on Annex VI at least one week before the next meeting of the Conference of Presidents. The Conference of Presidents shall adopt itstake a decision on the basis of a recommendation from the Conference of Committee Chairs, or the chair of the Conference of Committee Chairs, in accordance with Rule 211(2).referral at its earliest possible meeting. If no political group challenges the President’s referral to the committee responsible within the deadline laid down in the first subparagraph, the President’s referral shall be considered to be final
Amendment 155 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 53 a (new)
Rule 53 a (new)
Rule 53a Co-rapporteurship 1. Exceptionally, without prejudice to Rule 51(2) and at the request of the committee responsible, the Conference of Presidents may authorise the appointment of maximum two co-rapporteurs. 2. The appointment of co-rapporteurs shall not be authorised under paragraph 1 for reports drawn up by committees jointly under Rule 58, for opinions pursuant to Rule 56 or for own-initiative reports, except for those of a budgetary or institutional nature.
Amendment 177 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 56 – paragraph 6
Rule 56 – paragraph 6
6. All opinions and amendments adopted by the opinion-giving committees shall be annexed to the report of the committee responsible.
Amendment 180 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 56 a (new)
Rule 56 a (new)
Rule 56a Budgetary assessment on proposals for legally binding acts with budgetary implications 1. Without prejudice to the application of Rule 48, where a proposal for a legally binding act has implications for the Union budget, that proposal shall be referred by the President to the committee responsible for budgetary issues. That committee shall then issue a budgetary assessment of the proposal if it deems it appropriate or if so requested by the committee responsible for the subject- matter. This paragraph is without prejudice to the possibility for the committee responsible for budgetary issues to be authorised to submit opinions pursuant to Rule 56 or to act jointly with one or more committees pursuant to Rule 58. 2. The committee responsible for the subject-matter shall set a deadline within which the budgetary assessment is to be provided. Any changes to the announced timetable shall be immediately communicated to the committee responsible for budgetary issues. The committee responsible for the subject- matter shall not adopt its report before that deadline has expired. 3. In the budgetary assessment, the committee responsible for budgetary issues shall examine whether the proposal for a legally binding act provides for sufficient financial resources, and evaluate the potential impact of the financing proposed on other Union programmes or policies. It shall also determine whether the proposal is compatible with the multiannual financial framework, the system of own resources and the corresponding interinstitutional agreement. Where applicable, the committee responsible for budgetary issues shall also determine whether the proposal is compatible with Parliament’s position on any proposal to amend or replace that framework, that system or that agreement. 4. The budgetary assessment shall consist of an evaluation of the issues of the proposal for a legally-binding act referred to in paragraph 3. The budgetary assessment may, where appropriate, also contain amendments to that proposal covering exclusively those issues referred to in paragraph 3. Amendments on those issues by the committee responsible for the subject-matter shall be inadmissible. The budgetary assessment, including the amendments, shall be integrated into the report as such. 5. Where a budgetary assessment is provided, the committee responsible for the subject-matter and the committee responsible for budgetary issues shall cooperate throughout the procedure to ensure full consistency between policy and budgetary objectives. To this end, they shall invite each other’s rapporteurs to their discussions within Parliament relating to the proposal for a legally binding act, including to the meetings between the rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs. 6. The amendments contained in the budgetary assessment shall be inserted as such in the amendments tabled to plenary by the committee responsible for the subject-matter if they are compatible with the amendments put to the vote in the latter committee. In the exceptional case where there is an incompatibility, the relevant amendment contained in the budgetary assessment shall be put to the vote in the committee responsible for the subject-matter. If it is then rejected, that amendment may be tabled in plenary by the committee responsible for budgetary issues. In plenary, any such amendment tabled by the committee responsible for budgetary issues shall be put to the vote before any incompatible amendment. 7. Where a budgetary assessment is provided, the negotiating team referred to in Rule 74(1) shall include the rapporteur from the committee responsible for budgetary issues. Where a budgetary assessment is not provided, the committee responsible for the subject-matter may ask the committee responsible for budgetary issues to provide assistance to the negotiating team referred to in Rule 74(1) in relation to the issues referred to in paragraph 3 at any stage of the interinstitutional negotiations.
Amendment 185 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 58 – paragraph 1
Rule 58 – paragraph 1
1. When a question ofmatter falls within the competence is referredof two it pursuant to Rule 211, the Conference of Presidents may decide thatcommittees, without the competence of any of them prevailing, the procedure with joint meetings of committees and a joint vote is tomay be applied, provided that: – by virtue of Annex VI, the matter falls indissociably within the competences of several committees; and – it is satisfied that the question is of major importanceursuant to Rule 48 or Rule 54.
Amendment 200 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 74 – paragraph 1
Rule 74 – paragraph 1
1. Parliament's negotiating team shall be led by the rapporteur and shall be presided over by the Chair of the committee responsible or by a Vice-Chair designated by the Chair. It shall at leastf neither the Chair nor a Vice-Chair can attend a specific negotiation meeting with the Council and the Commission (“trilogue”), the Chair shall inform the President that the negotiating team will be presided over by the rapporteur at that trilogue. Without prejudice to Rule 56a, the negotiating team shall consist of the shadow rapporteurs from each political group that wishes to participate. If a shadow rapporteur is unable to attend a specific trilogue, his or her political group may appoint another Member to replace the shadow rapporteur.
Amendment 202 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 118 – paragraph 1
Rule 118 – paragraph 1
1. TIn accordance with Rule 54, the committee responsible may draw up draft recommendations for the Council, for the Commission or for the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on subjects under Title V of the Treaty on European Union (the Union’s external action), or in cases where an international agreement falling within the scope of Rule 114 has not been referred to Parliament or Parliament has not been informed thereof under Rule 115.
Amendment 203 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 118 – paragraph 6
Rule 118 – paragraph 6
6. Recommendations shall be deemed to have been adopted unless, before the beginning of the part-session, a political group or Members reaching at least the low threshold submit a written objection. Where such an objection is submitted, the committee's draft recommendations shall be included on the agenda of the same part- session. Such recommendations shallmay be the subject of a debate, and any amendment tabled by a political group or Members reaching at least the low threshold shall be put to the vote.
Amendment 206 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 133 a (new)
Rule 133 a (new)
Rule 133a Statements explaining the use of Article 122 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union as a legal basis 1. When the Commission plans to adopt a proposal for a legal act based on Article 122 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the President shall invite the President of the Commission to make a statement to Parliament explaining the reasons for the choice of that legal basis, as well as outlining the main objectives and elements of the proposal. The statement shall be included in the draft agenda of the first part- session following the adoption of the proposal by the Commission, unless the Conference of Presidents decides otherwise. The Conference of Presidents shall decide whether the statement is to be followed by a debate. Rule 132(2) to (8) concerning the tabling and voting of motions for resolutions shall apply mutatis mutandis. When such statement is not placed on the agenda of the first part-session following the adoption of the proposal mentioned in the first subparagraph, the committee responsible for the subject-matter shall invite the Commissioner responsible to provide the information referred to above at one of its forthcoming meetings. 2. The President shall refer the proposal to the committee responsible for legal affairs for verification of the legal basis. If that committee decides to question the validity, or the appropriateness, of the legal basis, it shall report its conclusions to Parliament, if necessary orally. Rule 149(3) to (5) shall apply. 3. When a proposal for a legal act based on Article 122 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union has potential appreciable implications for the Union budget, Parliament shall request that the procedure of budgetary scrutiny provided for in the joint declaration of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission27a be initiated. Parliament’s delegation to the Joint Committee provided for in the joint declaration referred to in the first subparagraph shall be made up of one member of its committee responsible for budgetary issues from each political group and one member from any committee responsible for the subject- matter. 4. At the earliest three months after the entry into force of the legal act based on Article 122 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and at appropriate intervals thereafter, the President shall invite the Commissioner responsible to make a statement to Parliament reporting on the implementation of the legal act concerned and on the necessity to maintain its provisions in light of the requirements of the Treaties. The procedure set forth in paragraph 1 shall apply mutatis mutandis. _________________ 27a OJ C 444 I, 22.12.2020, p. 5.
Amendment 220 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule - 136 (new)
Rule - 136 (new)
Rule -136 Special scrutiny hearings 1. In order to question one or more Commissioners, or any other relevant person, on an issue of major political importance, the Conference of Presidents may, upon a proposal by the President, by a committee or by Members or a political group or groups reaching at least the medium threshold, convene at short notice a special scrutiny hearing. 2. The Conference of Presidents shall determine the number of Members to be appointed for a given special scrutiny hearing by the political groups and the non-attached Members. Where relevant, political groups shall ensure that the committees concerned are duly represented. 3. A special scrutiny hearing shall be chaired by the President or, by delegation, by one of the Vice-Presidents. It shall be entirely public unless decided otherwise by the Conference of Presidents. 4. The speaking time allocated to a political group shall be treated as a block. Each political group shall distribute the speaking time within its block between those of its members who are participating in the hearing. Speaking time allocated to non-attached Members shall not be treated as a block. . 5. Following the conclusion of the special scrutiny hearing, its Chair may submit to the Conference of Presidents written recommendations on behalf of Members who participated at the hearing.
Amendment 222 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 137 – paragraph 1
Rule 137 – paragraph 1
1. Question Time with one or more Commissioners may be held at each part- session for a duration of up to about 90 minutes on one or more themes to be decided upon by the Conference of Presidents in advance. The Conference of Presidents may decide in advance on one or more themes, and at the latest on the Thursday before the relevant part-session.
Amendment 223 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 137 – paragraph 3
Rule 137 – paragraph 3
3. Question Time may also be held, under the terms laid down in paragraph 1, with the President of the European Council, with the Presidency of the Council, with the President of the Commission, with the entire college of Commissioners or specific categories of Commissioners, with the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and with the President of the Eurogroup and other relevant representatives of Union institutions and bodies.
Amendment 229 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 158 – paragraph 1
Rule 158 – paragraph 1
1. At the beginning of each part- session, Parliament shall adopt its agenda. Amendments to the final draft agenda may be proposed by a committee, a political group or Members reaching at least the low threshold. Any such proposalamendments must be received by the President at least one hour before the opening of the part-session. Any such amendment shall be inadmissible if a similar amendment to the draft agenda was rejected by the Conference of Presidents. The President may give the floor to the mover and to one speaker against, and in each case for not more than one minute. In order to be adopted, any such amendment shall require a majority of the votes cast.
Amendment 235 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 160 a (new)
Rule 160 a (new)
Rule 160a Debates on specific matters of interest to the European Union - Parliament’s statement 1. Parliament may place debates on specific matters of interest to the European Union on the agenda, in accordance with Rules 157 and 158. 2. Rule 132(2) to (8) concerning the tabling and voting of motions for resolutions shall apply mutatis mutandis.
Amendment 255 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 207 a (new)
Rule 207 a (new)
Rule 207a Ad-hoc temporary committees with legislative competences 1. When it results from the procedure in Rule 48 that a matter falls within the competence of more than two committees, without the competence of any committee prevailing, the Conference of Presidents may, on the basis of a recommendation by the Conference of Committee Chairs, propose to Parliament the setting up of an ad-hoc temporary committee with legislative competences to deal with specific proposals for a legally binding act or a pre-legislative strategic document. The recommendation by the Conference of Committee Chairs shall indicate the committees responsible for scrutiny of the implementation of the legislation. 2. The numerical strength of an ad-hoc temporary committee with legislative competences shall be decided by Parliament, based on a proposal by the Conference of Presidents. Its term of office shall run from the date of its constitutive meeting until the adoption of a legally binding act, without prejudice to the need for scrutiny activities. In the case of a pre-legislative strategic document, its term of office shall run from the date of its constitutive meeting until the adoption of the report in plenary. Members of an ad-hoc temporary committee with legislative competences shall be appointed by the political groups and the non- attached Members, drawing from the members and substitute members of the committees involved. The Conference of Presidents shall decide whether one or more rapporteurs are to be appointed at the same time that the proposal is taken to set up the committee. 3. Other committees shall not be authorised to deliver opinions pursuant to Rule 56. 4. Ad-hoc temporary committees with legislative competences shall not have the right to deliver opinions to other committees.
Amendment 264 #
Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
Rule 223 – paragraph 3
Rule 223 – paragraph 3
3. The bureaux of the delegations shall be constituted in accordance with the procedure laid down for the committee bureaux in Rule 213. When nominating a Chair of a delegation, political groups may as well take into account membership of the committee responsible for foreign affairs, of the committee responsible for development, or of the committee responsible for international trade.