11 Amendments of Martin EHRENHAUSER related to 2010/2007(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Takes the view that the absence of a rigorous strategy for reaching decisions on the seats of agencies has given rise to unnecessary additional costs and that this has led to the true costs being kept from taxpayers since, for example, previously non-existent infrastructure was not taken into account, leading to additional costs, inter alia for construction of new offices and conference venues, new schools, development of transport infrastructure because of higher mission costs, considerable difficulties in recruiting staff, etc.;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Calls on the interinstitutional working party on the agencies to draw up a precise catalogue of criteria which must be used in reaching decisions on seats, in order to achieve goals such as greater responsibility, transparency and efficiency in European administration;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new) (in section "Purpose of agencies")
Paragraph 1 a (new) (in section "Purpose of agencies")
1a. Is concerned that the Commission has only on rare occasions adequately fulfilled the requirement to give reasons in the context of the subsidiarity principle; calls on the Commission to meet the requirement to provide reasons in the context of the subsidiarity principle with the help of detailed qualitative and quantitative criteria;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new) (in section "Purpose of agencies")
Paragraph 1 b (new) (in section "Purpose of agencies")
1b. Notes that many agencies are active in areas which do not fall within the exclusive competence of the Union; notes that the subsidiarity principle has often been violated as a result;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new) (in section "Purpose of agencies")
Paragraph 1 c (new) (in section "Purpose of agencies")
1c. Calls on the interinstitutional working party on the agencies to look carefully at which agencies have areas of activity that do not fall within the exclusive competence of the Union, and on the basis of this to draw up a detailed timetable for closing these agencies;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that some of the agencies have very similar remits; calls accordingly for the interinstitutional working group on the agencies to consider whether some agencies should work closely together or even be mergeddraw up detailed proposals on the merging of agencies;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the interinstitutional working party on the agencies to set an upper limit on the number of members of the management board, using the number of posts provided for in the establishment plan of the agency in question as a guide;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. having regard to the principle of conferral, which is enshrined in the current legal base of the European Union in, inter alia, Article 5(2) of the Treaty on European Union (formerly Article 5 of the EC Treaty) and states that the Union shall act only within the limits of the competences conferred upon it by the Member States in the Treaties to attain the objectives set out therein, and that competences not conferred upon the Union in the Treaties remain with the Member States,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. having regard to the principle of subsidiarity, which is enshrined in the current legal base of the European Union in, inter alia, Article 5(3) of the Treaty on European Union (formerly Article 5(2) of the EC Treaty) and states that in areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence, the Union shall act only if and in so far as the objectives of the proposed action cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, either at central level or at regional and local level, but can rather, by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action, be better achieved at Union level,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas, under Article 5 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, draft European legislative acts must be justified with regard to the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, and the reasons for concluding that a Union objective can be better achieved at Union level must be substantiated by qualitative or quantitative indicators,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas, under Article 5 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, proper account must be taken of the need for any burden, whether financial or administrative, falling upon the Union to be minimised and commensurate with the objective to be achieved,