6 Amendments of Margrete AUKEN related to 2008/2063(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Resolves to ensure that, under the procedures the regulation to be adopted for the implementation of the "citizens' initiative", citizens have a right to present their proposals in the first instance to the European Parliament, through its Petitions Committee, given that this new opportunity can clearly be equated with and related to the right of petition itself, and that it makes good sense for EU citizens to make full use of the democratically elected institution when inviting the Commission to act1; considers, furthermore, that such a procedure would ensure greater openness and transparency allowing the active involvement of EU citizens in the work of the institutions lays down clear, simple and user-friendly conditions for the exercise of this citizens' right;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that it is already open to citizens to request in a petition that Parliament exercise its right under Article 192 of the EC Treaty to call for a legislative initiative and that nothing would prevent citizens, if they chose to do so, from addressing the same call for an European act both to the European Commission, as a citizens' initiative, and to the European Parliament, as a petition;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Considers that Parliament needs to examine how it could devise appropriate procedures for following and supporting citizens' initiatives, and believes that the Committee on Petitions, which already has broad experience of working with citizens on issues of concern to them, should play a key role in such procedures;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the proclamation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the recognition of the rights, freedoms and principles set out in it for all EU citizens; is resolved to clarify with the other institutions the extent to which the Charter is applicable directly to EU citizens – which is what citizens expect to be the case – and also the specific means of redress and non-judicial remedies available to EU citizens who petition Parliament to ensureat the direct applicability of the Charter as regards actions by the Member States is not unduly restricted by a wide interpretation of the limitations laid down in this respect in the chorrect application of the Charter and its provisions regarding the integrity of the pizontal articles of the Charter, notably Article 51 thereof, which requires the Member States to apply the Charters on, and the various rights pertaining to life, liberty and private propertyly when they are implementing EU law.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that the reinforced status of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as the broadening of the scope of the activities which may be the subject of infringement proceedings, notably in the field of justice and home affairs, will have a direct effect on the work of the Committee on Petitions when that Committee is exercising parliamentary control on behalf of citizens;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Notes that the introduction in Article 298 of the TFEU of a legal basis for good administration and the adoption of regulations implementing that Article will answer a long-standing call by the European Ombudsman and the European Parliament for a common system of administrative law governing the European administration, and calls for the Committee on Petitions to be fully involved in the procedure for the adoption of the regulations in question.