15 Amendments of Jean-Pierre AUDY related to 2012/2078(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (TSCG),
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas the TSCG treaty is a treaty under international law concluded by the Member States except, currently, for the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic, and whereas it calls in its Article 16 for the incorporation of its relevant provisions into EU law;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recognises the specific nature of the eurozone and calls for those countries with an exemption from participating in the single currency to be involved in all political steps concerning the eurozone;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to insist on the submission of National Job Plans by Member States as part of their National Reform Programme; proposes that these national employment plans should be the subject of a tripartite social summit as provided for by the second paragraph of Article 152 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission to promote the role of the social partners at European level, taking into account the diversity of national systems and facilitating social dialogue between them, without prejudice to their autonomy, as provided for in Article 152 TFEU;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Considers that the specific nature of the eurozone requires it to be given a parliamentary dimension;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Considers that the parliamentary dimension of the eurozone comprises the Members of the European Parliament elected in countries which are members of the eurozone; considers that Members of the European Parliament whose countries have an exemption from participating in the single currency should be involved in any parliamentary resolution concerning the eurozone by giving their opinion;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Regrets the absence of parliamentary scrutiny, both political and budgetary, of the ESM; regrets that the European Court of Auditors does not have competence to carry out scrutiny of the ESM;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Calls for the conclusion of an interinstitutional agreement between the European Parliament and the ECB, on a basis of full respect for the limits set by the independence of the ECB under Article 130 TFEU, and for a formal arrangement between the European Parliament and the ESM in order to ensure the fully-fledged democratic accountability of the latter’s activities, including those of the Troika; calls for this agreement to provide for the possibility of scrutiny of the ESM by the European Court of Auditors; calls for this agreement to provide for the ESM to be included in the supervision carried out by the ECB in the context of the banking union;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
47. Reiterates the call for the gradual roll- over of excessive debt into a redemption fund, segmented by country, 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; points out that the aim of this mutualisation is to obtain interest rates at market prices and for the countries concerned to remain ultimately responsible for the principal to be repaid on their debt;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Considers the Eurosummit, as provided for in Title V of the TSCG, to be an informal configuration of the European Council;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Calls for the reduction of the required majority for a motion of censure against the Presidenton the activities of the Commission under Article 234 TFEU to a qualified majority of the component Members of the European Parliament, and for the parallel obligation to elect a new President to be a condition for the effectiveness of the censure;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
Paragraph 57
57. Calls for the introduction of a legal basis in order to establish Union agencies which may carry out specific executive and implementing functions conferred upon them by the European Parliament and the Council in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure; calls for these Union agencies capable of performing specific executive and implementing functions also to be accountable to Parliament for managing them, and for their executive director to resign if the management is not granted budgetary discharge by Parliament;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75
Paragraph 75
75. Believes future Treaty amendments not affecting the Member States’ sovereignty 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;