Activities of Jean-Marie CAVADA related to 2015/2041(INI)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (24)
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers that effective protection of whistle blowers would help to increase both public interest and democratic accountability in the European Institutions;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission to draw up a regulatory framework for whistle blowers, with the aim of keeping their identity secret and protecting them against any form of reprisal;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the Commission, Parliament and the Council should record and disclose all input received from lobbyists/interest representatives on draft policies, laws and amendments as a ‘legislative footprint’; suggests that this legislative footprint should consist of a form annexed to reports, detailing all the lobbyists with whom those in charge of a particular file have met in the process of drawing up each report and a second document listing all written input receiveddetail all the lobbyists with whom those in charge of a particular file have met in the process of drawing up each report and introduce, on a voluntary basis, the recording and disclosure of written input received from lobbyists/interest representatives on draft policies, laws and amendments as a ‘legislative footprint’;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls onWelcomes the Commission to expand and improve its existing's initiative as laid out in its decision of 25 November 2014 on the publication of information on meetings held between Members of the Commission and organisations or self- employed individuals; considers that the recording of meeting data should be expanded to include everyone involved in the EU’s policy-making process;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Suggests that the Code of Conduct should be amended so as to make it mandatory for rapporteurs and committee chairs to adopt the same practice of exclusively meeting lobbyists registered lobbyists and publishwith the institutions and publish, on a voluntary basis, information on such meetings online and for rapporteurs to pu, with the aim of helping to establish a legislative footprint;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Suggests that this information should include the date, venue and purpose of the meeting;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Insists that registered law firms should declare in the lobby register all clients on whose behalf they perform coveredlobbying activities in the institutions;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that the members ofaccess to the Advisory Committee chosen from amongmust be restricted to Members of the European Parliament should be complemented by a majority of externally chosen members who must be qualified experts in the field of ethics regulation and should be drawn from an open call and include members of civil societyalone, in order to preserve the secrecy of any investigations or orders of reference that the Advisory Committee might deal with as part of its duties;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Takes the view that members of the Advisory Committee are entitled to call, on an ad hoc basis, on qualified experts in the field of ethics regulation, in the form of hearings in particular;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Believes that the Code of Conduct should be amended to empower the enlarged Advisory Committee to adopt final decisions instead of the Presidentccess all the data it requires in order to analyse all aspects of a matter, including the findings of any investigations conducted by OLAF, so that it can take final decisions in full knowledge of the facts;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Believes, in this connection, that the Advisory Committee should draw up a list of criteria on the basis of which it may be established what types of activity could result in a conflict of interests;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Recommends that the transitional allowance should be taken away from Members who take up a gainful occupation after leaving Parliament, from the moment that they take up that occupation;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Believes that the Code of Conduct should be amended to provide for a three- year ‘cooling-off period’ during which Members may not engage in lobbying work in the area of their parliamentary responsibilities, and that that period should be of equivalent length to that during which they are theoretically eligible for a transitional allowance (between six and 24 months, depending on their length of service – Article 13(2) of the Statute for Members of the European Parliament);
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for citizens to have the same right of appeal when requesting information as they enjoy when requesting specific documents that are of public interest;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Considers that Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 should be updated as a matter of urgency, as required by the Treaty of Lisbon, by widening its scope to encompass all EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies currently not covered, such as the European Council, the European Central Bank, the European Court of Justice, Europol and Eurojustthe European Council, the European Central Bank and the Eurogroup;
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Believes, therefore, that detailed reports on the proceedings of preparatory meetings within the Council should be as public as meetings of Parliament’s committeesmade available to the public;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Believes that the chairs of Parliament’s committees should proactively publish minutes and all documents used indetails of the matters on which agreement has been reached between the parties at trialogue meetings;
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Calls on the Presidency of the Council to include all trialogue documents in the documents register to allow for access in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, where those documents have been used in negotiations that resulted in an agreement;
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Believes that, when the Commission engages in trade negotiations, it should publish the negotiation mandates, all negotiating positions, all requests and offers and all consolidated draft negotiation texts prior to each negotiation round, so that the European Parliament and national parliaments, as well as civil society organisations and the wider public, can make recommendations thereon before the negotiations are closed for comments and the agreement goes to ratification;
Amendment 410 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Believes that decisions taken or prepared in the Eurogroup, in the Economic and Financial Committee, ‘informal’ Ecofin Council meetings and Euro summits must become transparent and accountable, including through the publication of their minutes;