3 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2011/2029(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2a (new)
Paragraph 2a (new)
2a. Draws attention to the concrete experience of the subsidiarity and proportionality tests, which points to a substantial discrepancy between the large number of European Union documents to be assessed, the intensity of the scrutiny and justification processes required for this purpose and the limited staff resources dedicated to this task; stresses, in this context, the need for a significant extension of the deadline, laid down in Article 6 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality (Protocol No 2), of eight weeks for the submission of reasoned opinions by the national parliaments;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2b (new)
Paragraph 2b (new)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2c (new)
Paragraph 2c (new)
2c. Stresses that the national parliaments will be better able to comply with their responsibility under the Treaty to test the compliance of legislative proposals with the subsidiarity and proportionality principles if the Commission for its part fully complies with its obligation, as laid down in Article 5 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, to give detailed and comprehensible reasons for its decisions;