Activities of Morten MESSERSCHMIDT related to 2013/2185(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on relations between the European Parliament and the national parliaments PDF (199 KB) DOC (104 KB)
Amendments (12)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the principle of conferral circumscribes the competences of the Union, which are exercised in accordance with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, and whereas the national parliaments seek to ensure that draft legislative acts comply with the subsidiarity principle;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas, accordingly, the national parliaments taken together do notshould form a ‘third chamber’ in the EU’s constitutional set-up, but instead serve to make the Union’s second chamber, the Council, more democratic;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the national parliaments’ competences in connection with the subsidiarity principle are viewed by most of those parliaments more as a means of engaging in ‘political dialogue’ with the European institutions than as a formal legal means of blocking legislation;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas the inclusion of national parliaments in a European parliamentary system needs to be properly regulated with a view to building a Union that is ever more integrated, democratic, transparent and close to the people;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas interparliamentary cooperation can play an essential role in driving the European integration process forward by allowing exchanges of information, a joint examination of issues, mutually beneficial dialogue and smoother transposition of EU legislation into national law;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
Pa. Whereas more openness in the European Parliament voting procedures would be a big step forward;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas following the establishment of the Interparliamentary Conference for the CFSP and the CSDP and the Interparliamentary Conference on Economic and Financial Governance, as well as the consolidation of interparliamentary committee meetings’ position as the preferred channel for cooperation, COSAC should focus on its role of making periodic reviews of among other things the general state of the integration process;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Believes that the 8 weeks threshold is too short and that the national parliaments must have more time;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Believes that, not least in the light of the new interparliamentary conferences on the CFSP/CSDP and economic and financial governance, COSAC should take on a more specialist role as, primarily, a forum for discussion of the state of the Union and other EU-relevant issues;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Believes that COSAC should serve primarily as a forum for in-depth discussion of among other things the state of the Union, with a view to the gradual integration of the peoples and states of Europe;