6 Amendments of Marian-Jean MARINESCU related to 2021/2025(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes that all Member States are being scrutinised along the same indicators and in accordance with the same methodology; appreciates that the Commission includes observations and findings about all Member States; regrets, however, that the current presentation of the report neither differentiates between the severity of the identified rule of law issues nor whether these are of systemic nature or individual, disconnected breaches; is of the opinion that there is a serious difference between systemic and individual, disconnected breaches of the rule of law; emphasises that this equal presentation of breaches of different nature carries the risk of trivialising the most serious rule of law breaches; urges the Commission to differentiate its reporting by distinguishing between systemic and individual, disconnected breaches of rule of law; calls on the Commission to update its methodology accordingly and keep Parliament informed without undue delay;
Amendment 19 #
2b. Is of the opinion that the following Rule of Law Reports should build upon the findings of the first; calls on the Commission to follow-up on its previous observations and analyse any positive or negative developments while highlighting in particular any systemic or reoccurring patterns of rule of law breaches;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Asks the Commission to provide information in itsNotes that the first Rule of Law Report is mostly descriptive of the situation in the Member States; calls on the Commission to make the report more analytical in the future and also include specific assessments and recommendations to the Member States on how to improve or remedy the breaches; underlines that these recommendations should include deadlines for implementation, where appropriate, and asks the Commission to include a follow-up on the implementation of its recommendations in its future reports; asks the Commission to provide information in separate future reports about the way Member States respect the rule of law and effectively protect the Union’s financial interests, for both EU budget revenue and expenditure, and to highlight serious risks to the Union budget; insists that the reports should provide specific assessments and recommendations to the Member States;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Underlines that the annual Rule of Law report is an independent and separate tool from the Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 on the general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget, which both serve different purposes: while the annual Rule of Law reporting has a preventive and informative character aimed at providing a broader overview of the situation and possible breaches regarding the rule of law in all Member States independent of any link to the budget of the Union, Regulation (EU, Euratom)2020/2092 is a conditionality mechanism aimed at sanctioning breaches or the risk of a breach with a sufficiently direct link to the budget or financial interests of the Union;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Emphasises the importance of keeping these two distinct legal tools clearly separated to avoid any kind of unlawful interference; acknowledges that the Commission can use the annual Rule of Law report as an important source of information when building cases for the application of Regulation(EU, Euratom) 2020/2092; is however, of the opinion that concrete information relevant specifically for the application of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 shall not merely be included as a chapter of the annual Rule of Law report, but shall be presented as a separate report under the auspices of the responsible Commissioner, as this report would include information drawn from a variety of different sources besides the annual Rule of Law report, including but not limited to reports by the ECA, OLAF and EPPO, audit reports by the Commission and national audit authorities, judgments by the CJEU and national Courts; analyses by the FRA, information from different systems such as EDES and ARACHNE; calls therefore on the Commission to provide a distinct report with information and analyses of actual and potential cases where breaches of the principles of rule of law in Member States could affect or seriously risk affecting the sound financial management of the Union budget in a sufficiently direct way; asks the Commission to discuss and agree with Parliament whether this report should be presented annually, or on a continuous semi-annual or quarterly basis;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on Parliament to establish a Working Group to closely scrutinise developments in relation to Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 consisting of Members from the responsible lead Committees;