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Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 2 – paragraph 1 a (new)

At the beginning of their mandate Members of the European Parliament shall sign a solemn declaration stating that they will serve in the general interest of the Union. Failure to comply with this declaration may lead to application of measures in accordance with Rule 166 and 167.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Sylvie GOULARD, Charles GOERENS

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 11 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

Members’ conduct shall be characterised by mutual respect, be based on the values and principles laid down in the basic texts on which the European Union is founded, respect the dignity of Parliament and not compromise the smooth conduct of parliamentary business or disturb the peace and quiet of any of Parliament's premises. Members shall comply with Parliament's rules on the treatment of confidential information. Members must respect these values and principles for their entire mandates, irrespective of whether or not they are within the Parliament's premises.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS, Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 25 – paragraph 7

7. The Bureau shall ~~draw up~~adopt Parliament's preliminary draft budget estimates.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS, Sylvie GOULARD

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 73 a (new)

Rule 73a Negotiations ahead of Parliament's first reading 1. Where a committee has adopted a legislative report pursuant to Rule 49, it may decide, by a majority of its members, to enter into negotiations on the basis of that report. 2. Decisions to enter into negotiations shall be announced at the beginning of the part-session following their adoption in committee. By the end of the day following the announcement in Parliament, one political group or at least one-tenth of the Members may request in writing that a committee decision to enter into negotiations be put to the vote. Parliament shall vote on such requests during the same part-session. If no such request is received by the expiry of the deadline laid down in subparagraph 1, the President shall inform the Parliament that this is the case. If a request is made, the President may, immediately prior to the vote, give the floor to one speaker in favour and to one speaker against. Each speaker may make a statement lasting no more than two minutes. 3. If Parliament rejects the committee decision to enter into negotiations, the draft legislative act and the report of the committee responsible shall be placed on the agenda of the following part-session, and the President shall set a deadline for amendments. Rule 59(1b) shall apply. 4. Negotiations may start at any time after the deadline laid down in the first subparagraph of paragraph 2 has expired without a request for a plenary vote on the decision to enter into negotiations being made. If such a request has been made, negotiations may start at any time after the committee decision to enter into negotiations has been approved in Parliament by a majority of the votes cast.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS, Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 96 – title

Estimates of Parliament and establishment plan

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS, Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 96 – paragraph 1

1. The Bureau shall ~~draw up~~, at the latest at its first meeting of February adopt the preliminary draft estimates and establishment plan on the basis of a report ~~prepared by the Secretary-General~~and the medium and long term planning prepared by the Secretary-General. The medium- and long-term planning shall establish a clear distinction between investments and operational expenditure.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS, Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 96 – paragraph 2

2. The President shall without delay forward the preliminary draft estimates as well as the Secretary General’s report and the medium- and long-term planning to the committee responsible for budgetary issues, which shall ~~draw up~~adopt the draft estimates and report to Parliament.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS, Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 96 – paragraph 4

4. Parliament shall adopt the estimates. Should the Parliament fail to do so, the Bureau shall propose new preliminary draft estimates to the committee responsible on budgetary issues.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS, Jean ARTHUIS, Gérard DEPREZ

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 97

Procedure to be applied when drawing up 1. As regards Parliament's budget, the Bureau and the committee responsible for budgetary issues shall take decisions in successive stages on: (a) (b) estimates. 2. establishment plan will be taken in accordance with the following procedure: (a) establishment plan for each financial year; (b) the Bureau and the committee responsible for budgetary issues shall be opened in cases where the opinion of the latter diverges from the initial decisions taken by the Bureau; (c) Bureau shall take the final decision on the estimates for the establishment plan, in accordance with Rule 222(3), without prejudice to decisions taken pursuant to Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. 3. the procedure for drawing up the estimates will begin as soon as the Bureau has taken a final decision on the establishment plan. The stagesRule 97 deleted Parliament's estimates the establishment plan; the preliminary draft and the draft The decisions concerning the the Bureau shall draw up the a conciliation procedure between at the end of thate procedure ~~will be those laid down in Rule 96. A conciliation procedure shall be opened in cases where the positions of the committee responsible for budgetary issues and of the Bureau are widely divergent.~~, the As regards the estimates proper,

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS, Sylvie GOULARD

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 117 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

The vote shall be taken by ~~secret b~~roll callot.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 130 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1

Questions shall be submitted in electronic format. Each Member may submit a maximum of ~~five~~twenty questions ~~per~~over a period of three months.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 130 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2

~~By way of exception, additional questions may be submitted in the form of a paper document tabled and signed personally by the Member concerned in the relevant service of the Secretariat.~~deleted

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 130 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3

~~After a period expiring one year from the beginning of the eighth parliamentary term, the Conference of Presidents shall carry out an assessment of the regime in respect of additional questions.~~deleted

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 130 – paragraph 3 – interpretation

The expression "by way of exception" is to be interpreted as meaning that the additional question concerns a matter of urgency and that the submission of that question cannot wait until the following month. Furthermore, the number of questions tabled under the second subparagraph of paragraph 3 must be smaller than the norm of five questions per month.deleted

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS, Sylvie GOULARD

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 136

1. three political groups may submit a written declaration of not more than 200 words relating exclusively to a matter falling within the competence of the European Union. The contents of such a declaration may not go beyond the form of a declaration. In particular, it may not call for any legislative action, contain any decision on matters for which specific procedures and competences are laid down in these Rules of Procedure or deal with the subject of ongoing proceedings in Parliament. 2. further shall be subject to a reasoned decision by the President pursuant to paragraph 1 in any given case. Written declarations shall be published in the official languages on Parliament's website and distributed electronically to all Members. They shall be entered, with the names of the signatories, in an electronic register. This register shall be public and shall be accessible through Parliament's website. Hard copies of written declarations with signatures will be also kept by the President. 3. The signature of any Member may be added to a declaration entered in the electronic register. It may be withdrawn at any time before the end of a period of three months from the entry of the declaration in the register. In the event of such a withdrawal the Member concerned shall not be permitted to add his or her signature again to the declaration. 4. three months from its being entered in the register, a declaration is signed by a majority of Parliament's component Members, the President shall notify Parliament accordingly. Without binding Parliament, the declaration shall be published inRule 136 deleted Written declarations At least 10 Members from at least The authorisation to proceed Where, at the end of a period of The procedure shall be closed by Where the minutes with the names of its signatories. 5. the forwarding to the addressees, at the end of the part-session, of the declaration, together with the names of the signatories. 6. adopted declaration has been addressed do not inform Parliament about the intended follow-up within three months from its receipt, the matter shall, at the request of one of the authors of the declaration, be placed on the agenda of a subsequent meeting of the committee responsible. 7. remained in the register for over three months and is not signed by at least one half of the component Members of Parliament shall lapse, without any possibility of that three-month period being extended.stitutions to which the A written declaration that has

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 168 a (new)

Rule 168 a Thresholds 1. For the purposes of these Rules, and unless specified otherwise, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "low threshold" means one- twentieth of Parliament's component Members or a political group; (b) "medium threshold" means one- tenth of Parliament's component Members or one political group; (c) "high threshold" means one-fifth of Parliament's component Members or two political groups. 2. Where, for the purpose of determining whether an applicable threshold has been attained, a Member's signature is required, that signature may be either handwritten or in electronic form, produced by the electronic signature system of Parliament. Within the relevant time-limits, a Member may withdraw, but may not subsequently renew, his or her signature. 3. Where the support of a political group is necessary in order for a threshold to be attained, the group shall act through its chair or through a person duly designated by him or her for that purpose. ------------------------- Horizontal alignment of Rules and amendments to the new definitions of the thresholds A. In the following Rules or amendments concerning the following Rules, the words « a political group or at least 40 Members», in any grammatically inflected form, shall be replaced by "a political group or Members reaching at least the low threshold", with any necessary grammatical changes being made: 69 §1 81 §2 105 §6 108 §2 123 §2 150 §2 150 §3 153 §1 169 §1 subpara. 1 170 §4 subpara. 1 176 §1 188 §1 subpara. 1 188 §2 189 §1 subpara. 1 190 §1 subpara. 1 190 §4 226 §4 231 §4 15 §1 subpara.1 38 §2 38 a (new) 1 42 §2 subpara. 1 a (new) 59 §1 59.1a subpara. 1 (new) 59. 1 b subpara. 4 (new) 59. 1 b subpara. 5 (new) 63.4 67 a 1 (new) 67 a 2 (new) 67 a 4 (new) 88.2 105.4 106 § 4 c (new) 108 §4 113 § 4 a (new) 118 §5 subpara. 1 121 §3 122 §3 122 a 4 (new) 128 §1 subpara. 1 135 §1 135 §2 137 §2 subpara. 3 138 §2 subpara. 3 152 §1 154 §1 174 §5 174 §6 180 §1 187 §1 subpara. 1 Annex XVI §1 c In Rules 88 (4) and 113 (4a), the words "at least 40 Members", in any grammatically inflected form, shall be replaced by "a political group or Members reaching at least the low threshold", with any necessary grammatical changes being made. B. In Rules 50 (1) and 50(2) subparagraph 1, the words "at least one- tenth of the members of the committee", in any grammatically inflected form, shall be replaced by "a political group or Members reaching at least the medium threshold in the committee" with any necessary grammatical changes being made. In Rule 73 a(2) and Rule 150(1), subparagraph 2, the words « political groups or individual Members who together constitute one-tenth of the members of Parliament", in any grammatically inflected form, shall be replaced by "a political group or Members reaching at least the medium threshold" with any necessary grammatical changes being made. In Rule 210 a(4), the words "three members of a committee" shall be replaced by "a political group or Members reaching at least the medium threshold in the committee" with any necessary grammatical changes being made. C. In Rule 15(1), the words "at least twenty percent of Parliament's component Members" shall be replaced by "two political groups or Members reaching at least the high threshold" with any necessary grammatical changes being made. In Rule 182(2) and Rule 180a(2), the words "at least one-fifth of the component Members of Parliament" shall be replaced by "two political groups or Members reaching at least the high threshold" with any necessary grammatical changes being made. In Rule 191(1), the words "a political group or at least 40 Members" shall be replaced by "two political groups or Members reaching at least the high threshold" with any necessary grammatical changes being made. In Rule 204(2), subparagraph 1 and Rule 208(2) the words "one-sixth of the committee members" or "one sixth of its members", in any grammatically inflected form, shall be replaced by "two political groups or Members reaching at least the high threshold in the committee" with any necessary grammatical changes being made. In Rule 208(3) and Rule 215(7), the words "one quarter of the members of the committee" shall be replaced by "two political groups or Members reaching at least the high threshold in the committee" with any necessary grammatical changes being made. D. This horizontal alignment of the thresholds does not prejudice the adoption, rejection or modification of the above listed Rules and amendments on aspects which are different from the thresholds.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 215 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3

~~The Bureau may decide that petitions and correspondence with petitioners may be drafted in other languages used in a Member State.~~deleted

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

Charles GOERENS, Enrique CALVET CHAMBON

Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 215 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2

If the committee responsible fails to reach a consensus on the admissibility of the petition, it shall be declared admissible at the request of a~~t least one quarter~~ majority of the members of the committee.

2016/09/27
Committee: AFCO

18 Amendments of Charles GOERENS related to 2016/2114(REG)

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