Activities of Matthias GROOTE related to 2010/0074(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Citizens’ initiative (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) It is necessary to establish the minimum number of Member States from which citizens must come. In order to ensure that a citizens' initiative is representative of a Union interest, this number should be set at one thirdquarter of Member States.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) It is appropriate to provide for statements of support to be collected in paper form as well as online. Online collection systems should have adequate security features in place in order to ensure, inter alia, that the person can be identified and that the data are securely collected and stored. For this purpose, the Commission should be required to set out detailed technical specifications for online collection systems.
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) The Commission should report on the implementation of this Regulation five years after its entry into forcthree years after its entry into force. When doing so, the Commission should pay special attention to online collection systems, among other issues. Since the setting-up and operation of individual websites fulfilling data-protection and safety criteria for all citizen's initiatives may prove difficult and costly for organisers and for Member States, due to the need to certify individual online collection systems, it might in the future become essential for the Commission to launch a central website, in which all initiatives would be registered in such a way that they could be located, accessed and signed by citizens. If serious data-protection and safety problems arise in the system of individual websites, the Commission should carefully examine the possibility of setting up such a central website.
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 1
Article 2 – point 1
1. "Citizens’ initiative" means an initiative, submitted to the Commission in accordance with the present Regulation, inviting the Commission, within the framework of its powers, to submit any appropriate proposal on matters where citizens consider that a legal act of the Union is required for the purpose of implementing the Treaties, which has received the support of at least one million eligible signatories coming from at least one thirdquarter of all Member States;
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 3
Article 2 – point 3
3. “"Organiser”s" means a natural or legal person or organisations forming an organising committee responsible for the preparation and submission of a citizens’' initiative to the Commission.
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraphs 1 a and 1 b (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraphs 1 a and 1 b (new)
The organisers shall form an organising committee of at least seven persons coming from at least seven Member States. The organisers shall designate one representative and one substitute, who shall perform a liaison function between the organising committee and the institutions of the European Union throughout the procedure and who shall be mandated to speak and act on behalf of the organising committee.
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. the citizens' committee has been formed and the contact persons have been designated;
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 b (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. the initiative does not manifestly fall outside the scope of the Commission’s power under the Treaties to submit an appropriate proposal for the requested legal act;
Amendment 153 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point c
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – point c
c. the data provided online is securely collected and stored, in order to ensure, inter alia, that it may not be modified or used for any other purpose than its indicated support of the given citizens' initiative and to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration or unauthorized disclosure or access.
Amendment 160 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1
1. The signatories of a citizens' initiative shall come from at least one thirdquarter of Member States.
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. In one thirdquarter of Member States, signatories shall comprise at least the minimum number of citizens set out in Annex I.