5 Amendments of Frédérique RIES related to 2021/2166(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the role of the better regulation programme is improving regulatory principles and reducing unnecessary burdens for businesses and citizens; underlines the importance of enabling citizens to fully exercise their democratic right to participate in the EU’s decision-making process and ensuring citizens’ direct participation; underlines that it is essential for the EU to ensure increased transparency at different levels of policy-making; calls on the Commission to continuously improve public consultations in order to ensure citizens’ participation and to take into account feedback from other institutions on such activities; stresses that public consultations on better law-making in the EU, as well as all communications and documents emanating from EU institutions, should be accessible to citizens and civil society through different outreach channels, should be translated into all official and co-EU official languages of the Member States, and should havebe in easy-to-access documenformats;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers, as the only committee mostin directly and constant engagedment with the public, that a democratic approach and political accountability remain the strongest control mechanisms in any constitutional democracy, including in the EU;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that continuous attentive review of citizens’ petitions presents great opportunities to make better regulation more inclusive and efficient and to improve policymakers’ understanding of local and regional realities, and of citizens’ concerns and priorities;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for more transparency from all European institutions, in particular the Council in order to ensure better law- making and to guarantee citizens´ rights of public access to documents and access to the right information;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the role of specific tools, such as the European Citizens’ Initiative and the European Ombudsman, in improving Commission regulation; recalls thatwelcomes the launch of the Conference on the Future of Europe should be continuously improved in order for the citizens to communicate the real impacts of legislation at national, local and regional level and to make suggestions on how to achieve better law-making; notes that the Commission should develop new toolsunderlines the fact that the Conference can bring a fresh impetus to the European discussion to facilitate the process of public participation; notes that the Commission should focus on making existing participatory tools more efficient to give citizens direct access to and involvement in EU policy-making ; insists that the Commission should seek the opinion of citizens and more importantly, take their views into account;