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6 Amendments of Bas BELDER related to 2017/0219(COD)

Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) For reasons of transparency and in order to strengthen the scrutiny and the democratic accountability of European political parties and the link between European civil society and the Union institutions, in particular the European Parliament, access to funding from the general budget of the European Union should be made conditional upon the publication by the majority of its member parties of the programme and logo of the European political party concerned, as well as information regarding the gender representation among the candidates at the last elections to the European Parliament and among the members of the European Parliament.
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
(11) The new requirements regarding publicity of the programme and logo of European political parties and of information regarding gender representation should apply to the largest possible extent already to applications for funding for 2019, the year in which elections to the European Parliament will take place. Therefore, transitional arrangements should be provided for.
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b – subparagraph 1
(1) In Article 3(1)b, the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘its member parties must be represented by, in at least one quarter of the Member States, members of the European Parliament, of national Parliaments, of regional parliaments or of regional assemblies, or’deleted
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 17 – paragraph 3
(1a) Article 17(3) is replaced by the following: “3. For the purposes of determining eligibility for funding from the general budget of the European Union in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article and point (b) of Article 3(1), and for the application of Article 19(1), a member of a regional parliament or assembly, of a national parliament or of the European Parliament shall be considered asto be a member of only one European political party, which shall, where relevant, be the one to which his or her national or regional political party is affiliated on the final date for the submission of applications for funding. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32014R1141&from=EN)Furthermore those members who belong to a political party that is not affiliated to a European party shall be considered as members of the European party whose Board accepted them in writing as members.” Or. en
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 18 – paragraph 3 a
3a. A European political party shall include in its application evidence demonstrating that the majority of its member parties have continuously published on their websites, during 12 months preceding the moment at which the applications is made, the political programme and logo of the European political party as well asnd are encouraged to include information, in relation to each of the member parties of the European political party, on the gender representation among the candidates at the last elections to the European Parliament and among the Members of the European Parliament.
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 19 – paragraph 1
(4) Article 19(1) is replaced by the following: ‘1. available to those European political parties and European political foundations which have been awarded contributions or grants in accordance with Article 18 shall be distributed annually on the basis of the following distribution key: – shares among the beneficiary European political parties, – proportion to their share of elected members of the European Parliament among the beneficiary European political parties. The same distribution key shall be used to award funding to European political foundations, on the basis of their affiliation with a European political party.’deleted The respective appropriations 5 % shall be distributed in equal 95 % shall be distributed in
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO