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9 Amendments of Gabriele STAUNER related to 2007/2027(INI)

Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas nothing in this resolution should be taken as affecting the independence of judges, in accordance with Recommendation No. R(94)12 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and, the 1998 European Charter on the statute for judges and the national legal systems,
2008/04/25
Committee: JURI
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Is of the opinion that a true European judicial area in which effective judicial cooperation can take place requires not only knowledge of European law, but also mutual knowledge of the fundamentals of the legal systems of the other Member States; highlights the inconsistencies in the treatment of foreign law throughout the European Union and considers that this important issue should be addressed in the future; takes note in that respect of the Commission's forthcoming horizontal study on the treatment of foreign law in civil and commercial matters, and of the ongoing studies in the framework of the Hague Conference on Private International Law;
2008/04/25
Committee: JURI
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Encourages the development of common components in syllabi and training methods across the Member States in the area of civil justice, in addition to the existing initiatives in the field of criminal justice;deleted
2008/04/25
Committee: JURI
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Considers, however, that the time is ripe for a pragmatic institutional solution to judicial training at EU level which makes full use of existing structures whilst avoiding unnecessary duplication of programmes; calls, therefore, for the creation of a European Judicial Academy composed of the European Judicial Training Network, whose task it would be to set training priorities, and the Academy of European Law, which would become its operative arm, implementing those priorities; calls for this institutional solution to take account of relevant experience gained in running the European Police Colle it necessary to enhance the role of the Academy of European Law so as to improve its capacity to tackle future tasks relating to the training of national judges;
2008/04/25
Committee: JURI
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that national judges cannot adopt a passive attitude to Community law, only reacting to points raised by the parties, as appears from the Court of Justice’s case-law on national courts raising Community law issues of their own motion1;deleted
2008/04/25
Committee: JURI
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Considers that lawyers play a decisive role in the application of Community law in national courts, and calls for their training also to be strengthened by analogy with the above sections concerning national judges;deleted
2008/04/25
Committee: JURI
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Considers, in a decentralised and mature Community legal order, that national judges should not be marginalised but rather given more responsibility and further encouraged in their role as first judges of Community law; therefore urges consideration of a “green light” system whereby national judges would include their proposed answers to the questions they refer to the Court of Justice, which could then decide within a given period whether to accept the proposed judgment or whether to rule itself in the manner of an appellate court;deleted
2008/04/25
Committee: JURI
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Welcomes the creation of a Forum for discussing EU justice policies and practice, and calls on the Commission to ensure as far as possible that the Forum carries out its deliberations in a transparent manner so as to inform the work of all EU institutions and national authorities; notes with satisfaction the Commission's commitment to report on a regular basis both to Parliament and to the Council; welcomes the intention to coordinate work with the relevant bodies of the Council of Europe and to avoid duplicating their valuable activities;
2008/04/25
Committee: JURI
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Strongly supports the Commission’s insistence that the Member States systematically provide correlation tables setting out how Community directives are applied in national regulations; agrees that such tables provide valuable information at minimal cost and burden; considers, moreover, that correlation tables increase transparency in the implementation of Community law and give national judges and parties before them a realistic opportunity to see whether Community law lies behind a particular national rule and to check for themselves whether, and if so how, transposition has been properly carried out;deleted
2008/04/25
Committee: JURI