3 Amendments of Andrew DUFF related to 2008/2120(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that the European Parliament has a major complementary function in influencing and holding to account the emerging CFSP and ESDP, a function which can onsurely be enhanced by working in tandem with national parliaments;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the new rightpowers accorded to national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon, notably with regard to the principle of subsidiarity, encourage them to get involved at an early stage in the process of policy formulation at the level of the Union,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges national parliaments to strengthen their efforts to hold national governments to account for their management of the spending of EU funds; invites national parliaments to scrutinise the quality of national impact assessments and the manner in which national governments transpose EU law into domestic law and implement EU policies and funding programmes at the level of the state, regions and local authorities; requests national parliaments to monitor rigorously the reporting of the national action plans of the Lisbon agenda;