17 Amendments of Rainer WIELAND related to 2014/2218(INI)
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas each petition is carefully assessed and dealt with, efficiently, promptly and transparently assessed and dealt with in a manner that preserves the participatory rights of the Members of the Committee on Petitions and each petitioner has the right to receive a reply within a reasonable period of time;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas an efficient and prompt processing of petitions must be guaranteed, including during the transition between legislative terms and the subsequent changes in personnel;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas it is primarily in the interest of admissible and well-founded petitions for the work of the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament not to be burdened with dealing with inadmissible or unfounded petitions for an unduly long period of time.
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
Gc. whereas there is currently a grey area between the admissibility of a petition and the question of whether it is well-founded, on the one hand, and between keeping a petition open and closing it, on the other hand, not only for the petitioners, but also with regard to what is to be addressed by the European institutions.
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas it is worrying that attempts are occasionally made, through the filing of petitions, to use the work of the Committee on Petitions as an extension of national election campaigns;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) is an extraordinary and innovative tool for participatory democracy in the European Union, whose potential must be exploited fully and unreservedly and further enhanced in order to achieve the best results;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Also considers it a particular obligation to ensure that inadmissible or unfounded petitions are not declared inadmissible or are not closed for an unjustifiably long period of time; emphasises in this context the requirement that the inadmissibility or closure of petitions on account of being unfounded must be carefully justified vis-à-vis the petitioners.
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Committee on Petitions and, if necessary, the Parliament committees responsible for amending the Rules of Procedure to more clearly structure the distinction between admissibility and whether a petition is well-founded and between keeping a petition open or closing it, and also to make this structure apparent to potential petitioners.
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the Commission’s significant role in assisting with cases raised by petitioners, and calls on it to monitor proactively certain projects reported by petitioners in which there is well-founded evidence that EU law may be breached; calls on the Commission, as guardian of the Treaties, to remedy those cases of incorrect transposition of EU law or of failure to transpose EU law reported in a large number of petitions filed with Parliament; also calls on the Commission to be less hesitant to make use of the initiation of infringement proceedings in this regard; emphasises that the impression that greater account is taken of larger Member States when infringement proceedings are initiated must be counteracted; calls on the Commission to keep the Committee on Petitions informed of developments in infringement proceedings directly linked to any one petition;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
(a) considers it essential that high-ranking officials of the Commission or the responsible commissioner personally participates in the discussions of the Committee on Petitions in important cases.
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers it essential that cooperation with the parliaments, their relevant committees, and governments of Member States be strengthened and that Member State authorities be encouraged to be fully transparent in transposing and applying EU law; stresses the importance of collaboration with the Commission and the Member States and welcomes the presence of representatives of some Member States at meetings;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. In the future, greater attention will be paid to avoiding the impression that petitions that appear to be important in the context of an election campaign in a Member State are treated with preference, whether that be with regard to the speed of processing or with regard to the opportunities in terms of presentation and awareness afforded by the processing; reminds all the stakeholders within Parliament of their particular responsibility to avoid the impression of this particular type of partiality.
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls for a common approach by the European Parliament, the national parliaments and the lower levels of the Member States, with appropriate appeal bodies, in order to make it transparently clear to citizens which level and which instance can by addressed by their petitions, and shall make every effort with his own policies to explain this matter, in the most comprehensive way possible, to citizens who have selected the objectively incorrect level with a petition to the European Parliament, and to provide those citizens with advice regarding where the petition can be effectively filed.
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Recalls that fact-finding visits are one of the most important investigation tools the Committee on Petitions has, even though there were none during 2014; calls on Greece to take note of the recommendations made in onsiders it essential that, particularly withe report on the fact-finding visit on wastgard to the necessary fact-finding missions, the cfollection and the siting of lowing-up of petitions does not come to a standfstills, in Greece, which was adopted in committee in February 2014;cluding between re-elections and reconstitution of Parliament, and calls on the Ccommission to monitor carefully the use made of funds allocated to waste collection; calls on Member States to comply with the EU directives on recycling waste;ttees of Parliament to make appropriate arrangements.
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on Greece to take note of the recommendations made in the report on the fact-finding visit on waste collection and the siting of landfills in Greece, which was adopted in committee in February 2014; calls on the Commission to monitor carefully the use made of funds allocated to waste collection; calls on the Member States to comply with the EU directives on recycling waste;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Attaches great importance to the presence and active cooperation of representatives of the Member States during meetings of the Committee on Petitions; welcomes the presence of representatives from the public authorities of the Member State concerned, their participation and their active cooperation, with particular reference to the representatives of certain Member States such as Greece, Italy and Spain; encourages other Member States to follow their example and set an example via the presence of government representatives, where appropriate;