17 Amendments of Rainer WIELAND related to 2009/2212(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 2a (new)
Detailed arrangements shall be laid down in Parliament’s Rules of Procedure.
Amendment 5 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) its composition based on a balanced representation of political forces, in accordance with Parliament’s Rules of Procedure;
Amendment 6 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) the time-limit for submission of its report, which shall not exceed [twelve] months from the date on which it first meets, without prejudice to extensions of time under paragraph 4.
Amendment 7 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) the time-limit for submission of its report, which shall not exceed [twelve] months, without prejudice to exten and may, by reasoned decisions of time under paragraph 4Parliament, [twice] be extended by no more than [three] months.
Amendment 8 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Parliament’s Rules of Procedure shall, for all future committees of inquiry in a given parliamentary term, lay down in advance the procedure whereby the various political groups shall have the right to propose the committee chair.
Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 4
Article 2 – paragraph 4
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – point c
Article 3 – point c
(c) in any event, at the close of the parliamentary term. when the newly elected Parliament first meets.
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3a Renewed inquiries A temporary committee of inquiry may not be set up or re-established with regard to matters into which an inquiry has already been held by a temporary committee of inquiry until at least twelve months have elapsed since the submission of the report on that inquiry or the end of its assignment and unless any new facts have emerged. A committee may be set up in any case where new and serious facts have emerged that may be deemed likely to alter substantive findings.
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. Exceptionally, proceedings shall take place in camera if this is requested by [one quarter] of the members of the committee of inquiry, by an institution or a body of the Union or by national authorities concerned. Witnesses and experts shall have the right to make a statement or provide testimonymay, if they so request, be heard in camera.
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. After the inquiry has been closed, the final report of the committee of inquiry shall be submitted to the European Parliament, which may take any appropriate actionshall adopt or reject it without amendment.
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. If it adopts the report, Parliament may decide to take appropriate action.
Amendment 15 #
1b. The committee’s final report may include minority conclusions as an official part of the text, provided such conclusions are supported by at least one quarter of the committee’s members.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The President of the European Parliament may announce such refusals or failures in plenary and shall, in full or in part, the points of which formal note was taken and arrange for them announcement to be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Those sanctions shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive and shall reflect the sanctions for corresponding infringements in relation to the work of committees of inquiry in the national parliaments.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
1. Any natural or legal person other than institutions and bodies of the Union and the Member States may submit a reasoned written complaint against a decision of the committee of inquiry, taken in application of Section 3, which is addressed to that person or of direct and individual concern to him or her. The complaint shall specify the alleged violation of Union or national lawlaw or of the national law applicable to the complainant.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 3
Article 19 – paragraph 3
3. The European Parliament shall take a reasoned decision on the complaint at the first part-session following the expiry of a period of [10 working days] from receipt of the complaint. IThe decision may include a stipulation that the complaint shall not have suspensory effect. Parliament shall notify the complainant of that decision within [10 working days] and shall inform the complainant of the remedies open to him or her, namely instituting court proceedings against the European Parliament and/or making a complaint to the European Ombudsman, under the conditions laid down in Articles 263 and 228 respectively of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 a (new)
Article 19 a (new)
Article 19a Costs The travel and accommodation expenses of members and officials of the Union institutions and bodies shall be borne by those institutions and bodies. Travel and accommodation expenses of other persons who appear before a committee of inquiry shall be reimbursed by the European Parliament in accordance with the rules governing hearings of experts.