6 Amendments of Richard CORBETT related to 2015/2283(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the package of better regulation measures adopted on 19 May 2015; believes however that material criteria for establishing the existence of a violation of the subsidiarity and proportionality principles should be proposedare difficult to define as these are matter for political judgement;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that no EU legislation can be adopted without the approval in the Council of a qualified majority of national ministers accountable to national parliaments;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. RegretNotes the decrease in the number of reasoned opinions received from national parliaments in 2014; takes note of the Commission’s view that, far from reflecting a decrease in interest on their part, this might be the result of the declining number of legislative proposals from the Commission; but might also reflect the fact that a failure to respect subsidiarity is rarely a problem;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that the period of eight weeks given to national parliaments to issue a reasoned opinion under Article 6 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality should be extended significantinterpreted flexibly;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the Commission should provide an adequate response to the request by a number of national chambers for a stronger subsidiarity control procedure; supports the request made by scontributors frome national chambers to play a more crucial role, by proposing that the Commission should be bound to withdraw or amend its proposal when a yellow card is triggered; believes, at the same time,parliaments and that the idea of a ‘green card’ should be considered as one means of raising the participation and activity of national parliaments in the EU legislative process.