Activities of Andrew DUFF related to 2011/0815(NLE)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the draft protocol on the concerns of the Irish people on the Treaty of Lisbon (Article 48(3) of the Treaty on European Union) PDF (130 KB) DOC (61 KB)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas at the European Council on 19 June 2009 the Heads of State or Government agreed to take a decision in order to provide reassurance and to'necessary legal guarantees' responding to the concerns of the Irish people in relation to the right to life, family and education, taxation, security and defence, and agreed that they would, at the time of the conclusion of the next accession treaty and in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements, set out the provisions of the decision in a protocol to be attached to the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union as clarifications of the provisions of the Treaty of Lisbon with respect to the Irish concerns;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas Article 2 of the draft protocol, in relation to taxation, only draws general conclusions in the absence of specific provisseeks to establish that 'nothing in the Treaty of Lisbon makes any change of any kind, for any Member State, to the extent or operations of the Treaty of Lisbon and does not prevent further progress towards enhanced economic coordination in the Unioncompetence of the European Union', in spite of the need to move towards much closer integration of fiscal policy, particularly within the eurozone, which includes Ireland;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas Article 3 of the draft protocol explicates the provisions of the Treaty of Lisbon on security and defence (Articles 42 to 46 of the Treaty on European Union), making it clear that the Union's common security andpurports to lay down that the Union's common security and defence policy, which includes the progressive framing of a common EU defence policy , 'does not prejudice the security and the defence policy of each Member State, including Ireland, or the obligations of any Member State', despite the fact that all Member States have an obligation to aid and assist by all means in their power a Member State which is the victim of armed aggression, and that, equally, all Member States are enjoined to offer solidarity to each other in the event of a terrorist attack or a natural or man-made disaster;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Expresses a positive opinion with regard to a European Council decision in favour of examining the proposed amendments to the TreatiesTakes notes of the proposed amendments to the Treaties which the European Council wishes to examine;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the European Council, the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments, and to the Government and Parliament of the Republic of Croatia.