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21 Amendments of Manfred WEBER related to 2012/2078(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Takes the view that the coordination of economic, employment and social policies belongs to the category of shared competences, which according to Article 4(1) TFEU comprises all the areas which are not included into the exhaustive lists of exclusive or supporting competences;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Stresses that, where Member States want to be excluded completely from a legal act in the field of the Union's non- exclusive competences, an enhanced cooperation in accordance with the relevant Treaty provision should, where possible, be established instead of concluding international treaties;

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Considers that the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) and a common deposit guarantee mechanism can be established under the existing Treaties on the basis of Article 114 TFEU and should follow the same model as the SSM, i.e. being mandatory for Member States whose currency is the euro and open to voluntary participation by the other Member States;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Is of the opinion that a legal act whose scope covers all the Member States but provides for a derogation for Member States having the right to opt in can be based on Article 114 TFEU, since the approximation of provisions of a subgroup of Member States reduces obstacles of whatever kind arising from disparities between Member States;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Considers that the Commission has the necessary executive powers to enforce decisions with regard to the resolution of banks established in Member States participating in the SRM, on condition that those executive powers are clearly and explicitly defined by an empowering legal act and that their exercise is subject to control by Parliament and the Council;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. Is of the opinion that the European Stability Mechanism as a mechanism covering Member States whose currency is the euro can be the financial backstop of the SRM, which could cover more Member States than the ESM;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43

~~43. Reiterates the need to strengthen the social dimension of the EMU through the building-up of a social pillar, while reaffirming that employment policy and social policy are Union policies;~~deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44

~~44. Considers that the extension of the scoreboard of the Macroeconomic Imbalances Procedure to social scores should include all EU Member States;~~deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45

~~45. Is of the opinion that social benchmarks provided for by the CCI and automatic stabilisers should cover all Member States that participate in those instruments;~~deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47

47. Reiterates the call for the gradual roll- over of excessive debt into a redemption fund for the euro area based on the model of the German Economic Council of Experts; considers Article 352 TFEU to offer a legal basis for the establishment of such a fund for Member States whose currency is the euro, if necessary in conjunction with an enhanced cooperation of these Member States;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56

56. Calls for a switch, with limited exceptions, of the voting procedures in the Council which require unanimity to qualified majority, and for the existing special legislative procedures to be converted into ordinary legislative procedures;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58

~~58. Takes the view that Union agencies should obtain the right to adopt~~ delegated ~~acts where a legislative act provides for it (by modifying Article 290 TFEU) as well as the possibility to confer implementing powers on them (by modifying Article 291 TFEU);~~

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59

~~59. Calls for the upgrading of the social clause of Article 9 TFEU in line with the environmental clause of Article 11 TFEU;~~deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60

60. Considers the reversed qualified majority voting in the Fiscal Compact as a merely political declaration without any legally binding effect on Member States, and calls instead for the integration of this voting rule into the Treaties and for the modification of Articles 121, 126 and 148 TFEU, in such a way that the proposals or recommendations submitted by the Commission may enter into force if no objection has been expressed by Parliament or the Council within a certain predefined period, in order to ensure fully-fledged legal certainty;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 63

63. Calls for the inclusion of Parliament in the budgetary surveillance procedure under Article 126 TFEU, with the right to amend a Commission proposal for a recommendation which can be rejected by a qualified majority of the Council if the Commission delivers a negative opinion;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65

65. Calls for the amendment of Article 136 TFEU in order to open its scope to voluntary participation by non-euro Member States, providing for full voting rights in line with the enhanced cooperation procedure, and calls for the dropping of the restrictions under Article 136 TFEU and for the upgrading of this article into a general clause for the adoption of legal acts concerning the coordination and setting of legally binding minimum standards with regard to economic, employment and social policy;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66

66. Calls for a treaty change to create a legal basis in the chapter on economic policy so as to enable the establishment of a European debt agency for the issuance of bonds which is mandatory for Member States whose currency is the euro and is open to non-eurozone Member States; considers the establishment of such an agency to be possible along with the completion of a fully-fledged fiscal union;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70

70. Considers that the future Convention should examine the establishment of a legal basis which empowers the Union to raise its own taxes as a proper own resource for the benefit of the Union budget;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71

~~71. Considers the inclusion of the possibility for the Union to budget for a deficit which shall not exceed a reference value specified in the Treaties;~~deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75

75. Believes future Treaty amendments should enter into force throughout the Union following their ratification by four- fifths of the Member States representing a majority of the population of the Union, in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76

~~76. Advocates the extension of the bridging clause in Article 48(7) TEU to the Treaties as a whole;~~deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO