18 Amendments of Rainer WIELAND related to 2009/2134(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S
Recital S
S. Parliament’s electoral procedure must, like the procedure for the nomination of candidates by parties at national level, uphold the practice of free, fair and secret elections, achieve overall proportionality of representation, and be durable and comprehensible,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point (ii)
Paragraph 4 – point (ii)
(ii) Proposes to enter into a dialogue with the European Council to explore the possibility of reaching agreement on a durable and transparent mathematical formula for the apportionment of seon the allocation of the Member States’ seats in the European Parliament; It should be founded on the following main principles: - There shall be 751 seats allocated to constituencies established in the Member States. Representation of citizens shall be degressively proportional, with a minimum threshold of six members per Member State. No Member State shall be allocated more than 96 seats. - The distribution of those seats among the States shall be reviewed regularly in accordance with a formula based on the Union population of the States. The population statistics as at the end of the third calendar year before each European election submitted by the Member States and by the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) will be examined jointly by the Council and the European Parliament by the end of the second calendar year at the latest, using objective criteria, and established by the Council, acting unanimously after Parliament has given its consent, as the basis for the calculations. - In the event of accessions, new Member States in Parliament respecting the criteria laid down in the Treaties and the principles of plurality between political parties and solidarity among States; will, until the regular elections of the whole European Parliament following their accession, be assigned a number of seats over and above the ceiling of 750 Members corresponding to the number which would have been obtained from a complete calculation which included the new Member States at the time of the previous European elections. The population figure to be used for this purpose will be that which obtained at the end of the third calendar year before accession. - For the purposes of distributing seats between Member States in accordance with the principle of degressive proportionality pursuant to Article 14(2a) of the Treaty on European Union, the seats allocated to each Member State shall be distributed on the basis of the Union population of the States in accordance with the procedure described below. (a) Each Member State will first be assigned 6 seats. (b) The remaining seats, up to the ceiling of 751, will be assigned to the individual Member States on the basis of their population statistics using the d’Hondt system. Member States which have attained a maximum of 96 seats in total will no longer be taken into account in the further allocation. (c) In order to avoid unfair hardship when the number of seats for Member States is amended in accordance with the principles set out above, seats in future European elections can be allocated so that Member States with a population of less than 5% of the total EU population lose no more than one seat as compared with their total at the previous election when European Parliament elections take place.
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Determines to bring forward the timing of the European elections from June to May; insists that the date of the 2014 European elections be fixed by 31.03.2012 at the latest;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Considers that, in view of Article 17(7) of the Lisbon Treaty and the fact that the European public knows more about Members of the European Commission than they used to, the candidature and eligibility of Commissioners-in-office and members of other bodies in Article 7 of the ‘Act concerning the election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage’ annexed to the Council decision of 20 September 1976 (amended version) should be regulated in such a way that no short-term and short- lasting personnel reshuffles are carried out in the time context of a European Parliament election and institutional appointments;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
Amendment 41 #
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – indent 2 a (new)
- member of a national or regional parliament with legislative powers,
Amendment 43 #
Article 9
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T
Recital T
T. Parliament's electoral procedure must 1 Declaration of 3 June 2005 by Representatives of the Member States meeting within the Council. 2 Declaration of 3 June 2005 by Representa, as does the procedure for the nomination of candidates by partives of the Member States meeting within the Council. at national level, uphold the practice of free, fair and secret elections, achieve overall proportionality of representation, and be durable and comprehensible,
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Repeats its proposal to bring forward the timing of the election from June to May; calls on the Council, after consulting Parliament, to determine the date of the 2014 European elections by 31.12.2011 at the latest;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Considers that, in view of Article 17(7) of the Lisbon Treaty and the fact that the European public knows more about Members of the European Commission than they used to, the candidature and eligibility of Commissioners-in-office and members of other bodies in Article 7 of the ‘Act concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage’ of 20 September 1976 should be regulated in such a way that no short-term and short-lasting personnel reshuffles are carried out in the time context of a European Parliament election and institutional appointments;
Amendment 98 #
Rule 14 – paragraph 2
2. The European Parliament shall be composed of representatives of the Union's citizens. 2a. Theyre shall not exceedbe seven hundred and fifty in number, plus the Presidentone seats allocated to constituencies established in the Member States. Representation of citizens shall be degressively proportional, with a minimum threshold of six members per Member State. No Member State shall be allocated more than ninety-six seats. The European Council shall adopt by unanimity, on the initiative of the European Parliament and with its consent, a decision establishing the composidistribution of those seats among the States shall be reviewed regularly in accordance with a formula based on the Union population of the States. The population statistics as at the end of the third calendar year before each European election submitted by the Member States and by the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) will be examined jointly by the Council and the European Parliament by the end of the second calendar year at the latest, using objective criteria, and established by the Council, acting unanimously after Parliament has given its consent, as the basis for the calculations. In the event of accessions, new Member States will, until the regular elections of the whole European Parliament, respecting the principles referred to in the first subparagraph. following their accession, be assigned a number of seats over and above the ceiling of 750 Members corresponding to the number which would have been obtained from a complete calculation which included the new Member States at the time of the previous European elections. The population figure to be used for this purpose will be that which obtained at the end of the third calendar year before accession. 2b. In addition, there shall be twenty-five seats allocated to a single constituency comprising the entire territory of the Union.
Amendment 108 #
Article 9
Amendment 116 #
Article 2 a (new)
Article 2a 1. For the purposes of distributing seats between Member States in accordance with the principle of degressive proportionality pursuant to Article 14(2a) of the Treaty on European Union, the seats allocated to each Member State shall be distributed on the basis of the Union population of the States in accordance with the procedure described below. 2. Each Member State will first be assigned 6 seats. 3. The remaining seats, up to the ceiling of 750, will be assigned to the individual Member States on the basis of their population statistics using the 'd'Hondt system'. Member States which have attained a maximum of 96 seats in total will no longer be taken into account in the further allocation.
Amendment 121 #
Article 3
1. Member States may set a minimum threshold for the allocation of seats distributed in national and/or regional constituencies. At national level this threshold may not exceed 5 per cent of votes cast. 2. The European Parliament shall be responsible for setting the minimum threshold in the constituency described in Article 2b(1).
Amendment 124 #
Article 4
Each Member State may set a ceiling for candidates' campaign expensethe campaign expenses of candidates and political parties at the national and/or regional level. The electoral authority shall set a ceiling for the campaign expenses of candidates and political parties at the European Union level. The provisions of Article 3(1a) shall apply mutatis mutandis.
Amendment 126 #
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – indent 1 a (new)
– member of a national or regional parliament with legislative powers,
Amendment 133 #
Article 13 a (new)
Article 13a 1. In the case of the Members elected in the Member States, and subject to the other provisions of this Act, each State shall lay down appropriate procedures for filling any seat which falls vacant during the five-year term of office referred to in Article 5 for the remainder of that period. The provisions of Article 3(1a) shall apply mutatis mutandis. 2. Where the law of a Member State provides for a temporary replacement of a member of its national parliament on maternity leave, that State may decide that such provisions are to apply mutatis mutandis to the Members of the European Parliament elected in that State.