11 Amendments of Hans-Peter MAYER related to 2008/2180(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5
Citation 5
– having regard to the report of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the opinion of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A6-0000/2008),
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A. whereas Regulation (EC) No 1206/2001 has not been enforced as effectively as it might have been, and further action is therefore needed in order to improve cooperation among the Member States’ courts for the purposes of taking evidence and enhance the efficiency of the regulation,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the Commission has taken steps to ensure that the Regulation is better known to practitioners badmittedly arranginged for the distribution of 50 000 copies in all of the practice guide to Member States in late 2006/early 2007, but this was done much too late, and other steps accordingly need to be taken in addition so as to enable those involved in proceedings, especially courts and practitioners, to be better informed about the regulation,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas in considerably more than half of theonly a few Member States now have facilities for video- conferencing are not yet available and the Commission notes that modern means of communication are ‘still used rather rarely’, which are consequently not being sufficiently used; whereas, in addition, Member States are not doing enough to introduce modern communication technology, and nor is the Commission proposing any specific remedies on that point,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Condemns the late submission of the above-mentioned Commission report, which, according to Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No 1206/2001, should have been submitted by 1 January 2007, but in fact was not submitted until 5 December 2007;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the fact that in considerably more than half of themany Member States facilities for video- conferencing are not yet available, together with the Commission’s finding that modern means of communication are ‘still used rather rarely’, confirms the wisdom of the plans for the European e-Justice strategy recently recommended by Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee, and urges Member States to put more resources into installing modern communications facilities in the courts and training judges to use them, and calls on the Commission to produce specific proposals aimed at improving the current state of affairs;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes with considerable concern the Commission’s finding that the 90-day time-limit for complying with requests for the taking of evidence, as laid down in Article 10(1) of the Regulation, is exceeded in a ‘significant number of cases’ and that ‘in some cases even more than 6 months are required’; congratulates the newly acceded Member States on the fact that they are tending to satisfy this requirement and considers that the best way of ensuring that the 90-day time frame for the execution of requestalls on the Commission to submit specific proposals ias complied with is for national Justice Ministries to promote the distribution of the practice guide over and above the 50 000 copies distributed in late 2006/early 2007, together with the organisation of training and demonstrations of new technology, while closely monitoring the application of the Regulation in their jurisdictions and ensuring that assistance is provided to courts where necessaryquickly as possible on measures to remedy this problem, one option to consider being a complaints body or contact point within the European Judicial Network;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Criticises the fact that, by concluding that the taking of evidence has been improved in every respect as a result of Regulation (EC) No 1206/2001, the Commission report presents an inaccurate picture of the situation; calls on the Commission, therefore, to provide practical support, inter alia in the context of the e-Justice strategy, for the efforts which it admits are necessaryand make greater efforts in order to realise the true potential of the Regulation for improving the operation of civil justice for citizens, businesses, practitioners and judges;