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6 Amendments of Rainer WIELAND related to 2012/2308(INI)

Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph A
A. whereas certain petitions have been deposited requesting that the establishment of the European Parliament in more than one place of work be discontinued;
2013/06/24
Committee: PETI
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas arrangements affecting Parliament’s right of organisational self- determination are among the foremost concerns for a parliamentary system;
2013/07/05
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
M. whereas the additional annual costs resulting from the geographic dispersion of Parliament have conservatively been estimated to range between EUR 169 million and EUR 204 million4, which is equivalent to between 15% and 20% of Parliament’s annual budget, while the environmental impact is also significant, with the CO2 emissions associated with the transfers to and from the three working locations estimated to amount to at least 19 000 tonnes5; __________________ 4 Discharge 2010: EU general budget, European Parliament (Liberadzki Report) (A7-0120/2012), texts adopted, P7_TA(2012)0155. 5 ‘European Parliament two-seat operation: Environmental costs, transport & energy’, report prepared by Eco-Logica Ltd. for the Greens/EFA, November 2007.deleted
2013/07/05
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Notes that in addition to the subjects dealt with in this report, there are other essential matters directly related to Parliament’s status and its function within the EU institutional machinery and – on those points – convincing solutions have yet to be found; notes that these unresolved questions include electoral law, rules for a no-protest zone, immunity matters, and points related to the Statute for Members and that they should either be encompassed within Parliament’s right of organisational self-determination, exercised in the form of a general decision-making power, or, at the very least, be brought within the scope of the ordinary legislative procedure based on codecision;
2013/07/05
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Agrees with the principle that the European Parliament would be more effective, cost-efficient and respectful of the environment if it were located in a single place; and notes that the continuation of the monthly migration between Brussels and Strasbourg has become a symbolic negative issue amongst most EU citizens which is detrimental to Parliament’s reputationIs aware that most EU citizens take a critical view of the European Parliament's monthly migration between places of work;
2013/06/24
Committee: PETI
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Respects the historic reasons for the location of its plenary sessions in Strasbourg and the Treaty requirements that necessitate the two-seat systemsystem of a single seat but three places of work; nevertheless insists that such an arrangement cannot continue in perpetuity and that Parliament itself must be able to state a preference for its future;
2013/06/24
Committee: PETI