Activities of Rainer WIELAND related to 2023/2083(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the implementation of Treaty provisions concerning special legislative procedures
Amendments (12)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas special legislative procedures are procedures that either reduce or weaken the role of the European Parliament as colegislator on an equal footing with the Council, and whereas the institutions must therefore restore a balance in that regard;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the different areas in which the special legislative procedure applies must be carefully examined, as must the different roles of the European Parliament, where consent is required or where it is merely consulted or where it acts instead as initiator of legislation (Statute for Members of the European Parliament, European electoral law, right of inquiry, Statute of the Ombudsman, etc.), bearing in mind that the special legislative procedure in the Treaties is used in certain more sensitive policy areas (such as the budget, international agreements, etc.);
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for the role of the European Parliament in these special legislative procedures to be strengthened accordingly in order to enable it to conduct serious negotiations with the Council;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Acknowledges that the rights of the institutions under the different procedures and the specific features of those procedures also afford each institution latitude - exercising latitude being part of the interinstitutional competitive process - and that that latitude may also be exercised to secure acceptance for political positions; stresses, however, that such latitude must also be seen to be exercised at all times as a measure of good faith to actually carry out the colegislation functions that have been conferred, that the dividing line between latitude and obstruction must not be crossed, and that, in cases of doubt, formal termination of a procedure is preferable to permanent non-acceptance;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Recommends that, in accordance with the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making (IIA), the legislative procedure resulting from the right of legislative initiative conferred on Parliament by the Treaties should include a request to establish a legislative timetable for the initiatives concerned along the lines of that for the ordinary legislative procedure; stresses further that such a special legislative procedure must comply with the IIA provisions on the institutional obligation on all three institutions to negotiate;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Stresses that, as currently worded, the third paragraph of Article 226 TFEU, which stipulates a ‘special legislative procedure’ and requires Council and Commission consent for adoption of a regulation on Parliament’s right of inquiry, does not oblige the Council and the Commission to negotiate, since they are obliged only to give or withhold their consent to Parliament’s proposal, and not to negotiate with a view to reaching a common accord;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Reiterates that, should use be made of a special legislative procedure and should no agreement be reached within a reasonable period, the Commission would have to withdraw the legislative proposal concerned;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Stresses that the time limits available to each institution for the different procedures - in primary law or through IIA arrangements - must also reflect the principle that the institutions are of equal standing;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Considers it necessary for all institutions to step up efforts to publish, as the product of the lawmaking process, texts whose content is consistent across all official languages and, in the interests of uniform application of the law throughout the Union, robustly interpretable and applicable for all responsible actors involved in implementing legislation, within the judiciary and within the executive at all levels;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Considers that the discontinuity principle within the legislative procedure fundamentally strengthens the Union’s colegislating institutions and significantly complements the institutions’ better- lawmaking efforts;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Calls on the political parties to ensure that their election programmes express their commitment to the proposal by Parliament for a new and updated regulation on its right of inquiry, and invites the various lead candidates to offer their public and political support on this matter;