6 Amendments of Margrete AUKEN related to 2011/2275(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Recalls that the original mandate for the Charter was to codify the fundamental rights enjoyed by EU citizens and that the heads of state and government repeatedly have solemnly declared that the Charter represents rights of EU citizens; calls on all Member States to reconsider the necessity of Article 51 of the Charter and encourages them to unilaterally declare that they will not limit the rights of individuals on the basis of that provisions in that article within their jurisdiction;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. WelcomNotes the emphasis placed in the Commission's report on the efficient management of infringement cases through the development and evaluation of new tools, such as EU Pilot and CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol), the strengthening of preventive measures, and the possibility to request, at an earlier stage, financial sanctions against Member States in cases of late transposition of directives;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes, in particular, the encouragingPoints out that number of Member States participating in the EU Pilot project (18 by the end of 2010) and the large number of cases closed after the response from the Member State was assessed as acceptable (81 % of cases); welcomes the adoption of the first EU Pilot Evaluation Report in March 2010, and urges the adoption of future evaluation reports in a timely manner in order continually to assess the effective impact and enforcement capacity of this new mechanism stresses the importance of the quality of these assessments, both in terms of valid and verified information and in terms of respect for the general principles of administrative law recognised by the Court of Justice;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Welcomes the adoption of the first EU Pilot Evaluation Report in March 2010 and urges the adoption of future evaluation reports in a timely manner, in order to continually assess the effective impact and enforcement capacity of this new mechanism; takes note also of the revised guidelines for handling of relations with complainants annexed to the report;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Agrees with the emphasis placed by the Commission on the importance of the rule of law while recalling that there is an inherent tension between this principle and the discretion enjoyed by the Commission as regards pursuing infringements and that avoidance of any arbitrariness in the use of discretionary powers requires genuine compliance with general principles of good administration, such as impartiality, objectivity and proportionality;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that citizens remain largely uninformed aboutwith regards to infringement proceedings, as evidenced by the significant number of petitions received that, unknown to the petitionwhich, unawares, refer to circumstances already under investigation; considers, refer to circumstances already unin line with the conclusions of the Working Group set up by the Legal Affairs Committee, that the infringement proceedings should be includerd investigation the framework of regulations on good administration based on Article 298 TFEU;