Activities of Jiří MAŠTÁLKA related to 2014/2150(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (REFIT): State of Play and Outlook PDF (225 KB) DOC (161 KB)
Amendments (18)
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the renegotiation and updating of the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Lawmaking, in order to take account of the Treaty of Lisbon and the framework agreement between Parliament and the Commission and develop and consolidate best practice in areas such as legislative planning, impact assessments, systematic ex-post evaluations of EU legal provisions, implementation and the handling of delegated and implementing acts;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomesTakes note of the decision of Commission President Juncker to entrust the First Vice- President of the Commission with the portfolio of better regulation, which underlines the high political importance of this topic; and stresses that it should be an ongoing process ensuring that the legislation in force at European level is of utmost quality, meeting the expectations of citizens and other stakeholders, calls for public policy objectives including consumer, environmental, social and health and safety standards not to be jeopardised;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for businesses and stakeholders to be more closely involved with subsidiarity checks, administrative burden assessment, and the monitoring of the implementation of EU legislation at national level; welcomes the Commission’s intention to establish a new High Level Group on better regulation under the responsibility of the responsible Vice-President;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to ensure that consultations with stakeholders undertaken by means of dialogue with, in particular, social partners and professional organisations are transparent and timely and their output is analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively to ensure that minority views are also duly taken into account; considers that feedback could already be given on draft impact assessments to the Impact Assessment Board, at the stage preceding the final legislative proposal and assessment;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines that the Commission should focus more on the quality of legislation rather than on the number of legislative acts; underlines in this regard that costs should not be the decisive factor but quality of legislation is the only appropriate benchmark and that REFIT programme must not be used to undermine social, labour, environmental and consumer standards;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that a European standard generally replaces 28 national standards, thereby underpinning the single market and cutting down on bureaucracbut must under every circumstances respect the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Insists that legislation on employment and Health & Safety represents minimum standards of protection of workers which Member States can go beyond. The EU legislation will not be interpreted as maximum standards in situations in which these regulations can be seen as obstacles for competition in the single market;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines that the social partners may, in accordance with Article 155 TFEU, conclude agreements that can be implemented uniformly; calls on the Commission to respect the autonomy of the parties and their negotiated agreements, and to take their concerns seriously, and stresses that the REFIT agenda should not be a pretext for disregarding agreements reached between the social partners; calls therefore for the hairdressers social partner agreement on occupational health and safety to be adopted;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes in this connection the Commission's affirmation that dialogue with citizens, social partners and other economic and civil society stakeholders contributes to ensuring transparent, effective and coherent EU legislation; is of the opinion that public consultations via the Commission´s website cannot replace direct consultations with representatives from stakeholders;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses the need to take account of the horizontal, social and ecological provisions of the Lisbon Treaty (Articles 9 and 11 TFEU) in defining and implementing Union actions and policies; calls on all EU institutions always to consider an in-depth analysis of the social and environmental impact of any proposed legislation and the short- and long-term effects of legislation; believes that, while the focus of such assessments is primarily on monetary factors, and on easily quantifiable criteria such as economic operators costs, the long- term value of legislation, such as the reduction of adverse health effects or the preservation of ecosystems, is often difficult to quantify, and that, as a consequence, social and environmental costs and benefits are not taken into adequate account;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Is deeply concerned about the Commission´s intention to transform its Impact Assessment Board into a Regulatory Scrutiny Board with three external members (so called independent advisors) with de-facto veto power, which would mean a weakening of power of democratically elected legislators and risk of weakening of existing standards of protection of citizens, workers and environment;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Calls on the European Parliament to systematically review Commission impact assessments and review IMPAs analysis as early as possible in the legislative process, and to call for impact assessments on its own reports;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the Commission's clear commitment to further improvingTakes note of the SME -test, particularly in view of the extremely large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, which are the cornerstone of economic activity and employment; supports consideration of adapted agreements and more flexible SME impact assessment rules, provided that it can be shown that they do not undermine the effectiveness of legal provisions and that exemptions or more flexible provisions do not encourage fragmentation of the internal market or hamper access to itbelieves that micro-enterprises could be considered for exemption on a case-by- case basis;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that evaluation of new rules regarding their impact on SMEs must be in no way detrimental to the rights of their employees; calls on the Commission not to use the "Top Ten" most burdensome laws for SMEs as justification to review the working time and temporary agency directives, because the protection of workers must be guaranteed regardless whether the workplace is in small, medium sized or large enterprises;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Notes that evaluation of new rules regarding their impact on SMEs must be in no way detrimental to the rights, safety and wellbeing of their employees;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the fact that the Commission is making systematic ex-post analysis an integral part of better regulation; stresses that, in the interests of legal certainty for citizens and businesses, such analyses should be carried out within a sufficient time-frame, preferably several years after the deadline for transposition into national law;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Remains strongly opposed, with reference to the decisions of the Parliament of 15 January 2015, to the intention of the Commission to withdraw a number of legislative proposals, in particular the directive on maternity leave,calls on the Commission to continue negotiations on the maternity directive, and the legislative proposals on air quality and waste policy, the directive on transparency in pricing and reimbursement of medicines, and the proposal to revise the directive on national emission ceilings under the legislative follow-up to the climate and energy package; calls on the Commission to take due account of the position of Parliament;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Regrets that the Commission is reluctant to scrutinise the proposed directive on SUP in the context of REFIT, warns that the proposed directive will create serious problems by providing new and easy ways to establish letterbox companies as well as by undermining workers ‘social rights;