Activities of Martin EHRENHAUSER related to 2013/2196(DEC)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2012, Section I – European Parliament PDF (327 KB) DOC (225 KB)
Amendments (17)
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 b (new)
Paragraph 34 b (new)
34b. Calls on the Bureau to bring in an incentives scheme for Parliament officials which provides financial rewards for suggestions for successfully introduced savings through optimising work processes with no loss of administrative performance quality;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 – introductory part
Paragraph 43 – introductory part
43. Notes that theRegrets the fact that additional expenditure arisinges from the geographic dispersion of Parliament constitutes an important identified area of potential savings; points out that if the three places of work were combined to form a single site, in Brussels, significant savings would be possible; welcomes the Secretary- General’s report25 of August 2013 regarding the financial impact of the geographic dispersion of the European Parliament; underlines that the report factored in the calculations the following parameters: __________________ 25 ‘The three places of work of the European Parliament – financial, environmental and regional impacts of geographic dispersion, note prepared by the Secretary General of the European Parliament on 30 August 2013.
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Emphasises the fact that 10,703 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year would be saved if Strasbourg (10 235) and Luxembourg (468) were no longer used as places of work; notesregrets the fact that this environmental impact of the geographic dispersion of Parliament in terms of carbon emissions accounts for 11,16 % of Parliament's total carbon footprint in 2011;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 c (new)
Paragraph 49 c (new)
49c. Takes the view that there can be independent European policy-making only if there is sufficient scientific and legal expertise in Parliament;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 e (new)
Paragraph 49 e (new)
49e. Calls on the Bureau to give Parliament’s Legal Service the appropriate staffing and resources to enable each MEP to request legal opinions on a limited scale;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 h (new)
Paragraph 49 h (new)
49h. Notes that the employment of Members' staff by lobbyists whose activities are covered by the Transparency Register leads to conflicts of interest and restricts Members' independence;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 i (new)
Paragraph 49 i (new)
49i. Calls for the Implementing Measures for the Code of Conduct for Members of the European Parliament to be amended so as to prevent lobbyists whose activities are covered by the Transparency Register from employing Members' staff;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 b (new)
Paragraph 53 b (new)
53b. Calls for the introduction of strict rules ensuring that Members use the general expenditure allowance solely for its intended purpose; insists that only costs actually incurred be covered by the general expenditure allowance;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 d (new)
Paragraph 53 d (new)
53d. Insists that, for Members' air travel within Europe, only the cost of economy class tickets should be reimbursable from Parliament's budget;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54 b (new)
Paragraph 54 b (new)
54b. Firmly believes that appropriate, mandatory remuneration must be introduced for all traineeships, including traineeships in Members' offices and political groups, which last for more than one month and are not compulsory components of a degree or training course;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66 d (new)
Paragraph 66 d (new)
66d. Calls on the Parliament departments responsible to convert the software safeguarding parliamentary communications to open source; stresses the importance of open-source word processing, instant messaging and file hosting programs; highlights the significance of parliamentary communications security where open- source operating systems are used;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66 h (new)
Paragraph 66 h (new)
66h. Calls on the Parliament departments responsible, with a view to safeguarding digital communications, to arrange encryption training for all Members and their staff at the start of the next parliamentary term; stresses that action must be taken to make mobile communications secure, too, by means of encrypted telephony and encryption apps for smartphones, this also to be accompanied by training for Members and their staff;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66 j (new)
Paragraph 66 j (new)
66j. Takes the view that publishing Union data makes innovations possible, brings considerable benefits to the economy as a whole and makes for more efficient administration; calls for Parliament's data to be made permanently available in machine-readable form, without charge, so as to make them freely reusable;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66 l (new)
Paragraph 66 l (new)
66l. Takes the view that the availability of data must not be constrained by the use of platform- or system-specific architecture and that the data format must be based on widely used and freely accessible standards and be supported and maintained by organisations which are independent of manufacturers; stresses that full documentation relating to format and all extensions must be made freely available;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 a (new)
Paragraph 76 a (new)
76a. Notes that intergroups are currently also a platform for various lobbyists; stresses the importance of a functioning and exhaustive transparency register for ensuring transparency and democracy at EU level; calls for an appropriate provision to be introduced so as to ensure that only lobbyists included in the transparency register, in so far as it covers their activities, may be represented in intergroups;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 c (new)
Paragraph 76 c (new)
76c. Is of the opinion that the Advisory Committee on the Conduct of Members must not only comprise Members, but, rather, must have a majority made up of external, independent experts permanently appointed;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 d (new)
Paragraph 76 d (new)
76d. Calls on the Parliament department responsible to publish, on the Parliament website, how many classified documents Parliament has produced, broken down by level of classification, and how many classified documents, broken down by level of classification, it has received from (or forwarded to) individual institutions, other bodies and Member States of the European Union and third parties;