4 Amendments of Morten MESSERSCHMIDT related to 2015/2283(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the package of better regulation measures adopted on 19 May 2015; believes however that material criteria for establishing the existence of a violation of the subsidiarity and proportionality principles should be proposed; calls the Commission acting together with Member States to propose a package of improvement to make reasoned opinion procedure more effective by including a principle of proportionality in the procedure;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets the decrease in the number of reasoned opinions received from national parliaments in 2014; takes note of the Commission’s view that, far from reflecting a decrease in interest on their part, this might be the result of the declining number of legislative proposals from the Commission; calls the Commission to improve the quality of the Commission's explanatory statement memorandums on subsidiarity and its engagement with reasoned opinion;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Considers that the role of national parliaments in monitoring EU political and legislative process should be increased; believes that the speaker of the national parliament in the country holding the Council presidency along with the President of the European Parliament should be invited to address the European Council prior to each of its meetings.
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Proposes enhancing inter- parliamentary cooperation in order that the potential of the Lisbon Treaty be harnessed to serve subsidiarity and democracy through the informal organisation, with support from COSAC, of a council of national parliaments: 1) all draft EU acts would be debated there by networked national parliaments; 2) this would enable them to assume fully their paramount responsibility in regard to sovereign powers, in particular: movement of persons, visas, asylum and immigration, police and judicial cooperation, citizenship, foreign affairs and defence, government revenue and expenditure, law and criminal law procedure, cultural matters, particularly in regard to language, the family and education, religious affairs, challenging ethical, moral or philosophical issues, fundamental political freedoms (freedom of opinion, freedom of the press, freedom to hold meetings, etc.), electoral law, law and social security schemes; 3) it would enable efficient monitoring of the work of the EU Councils of Ministers through specific committees for each council of ministers; 4) more generally, it would ensure efficiency in horizontal exchanges between national parliaments, including the sharing of good democratic practices, such as the mandate for negotiation some national parliaments give their ministers prior to Council meetings or the prior consultation of parliamentary chambers before any activation by the European Union of a passerelle clause or any implementation of a simplified Treaty change procedure.