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Activities of Morten MESSERSCHMIDT related to 2017/0219(COD)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council of 22 October 2014 on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations PDF (614 KB) DOC (93 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: AFCO
Dossiers: 2017/0219(COD)
Documents: PDF(614 KB) DOC(93 KB)

Amendments (9)

Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) For reasons of transparency and in order to strengthen the scrutiny and the democratic accountability of European political parties and the link between European civil society and the Union institutions, in particular the European Parliament, access to funding from the general budget of the European Union should be made conditional upon the publication by the majority of its member parties of the programme and logo of the European political party concerned, as well as information regarding the gender representation among the candidates at the last elections to the European Parliament and among the members of the European Parliament.
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
(11) The new requirements regarding publicity of the programme and logo of European political parties and of information regarding gender representation should apply to the largest possible extent already to applications for funding for 2019, the year in which elections to the European Parliament will take place. Therefore, transitional arrangements should be provided for.
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11 a (new)
(11a) In order to ensure greater transparency, legal certainty and full respect of the rules by all, a permanent Working Group on Transparency of European Parties and Foundations’ Activities should be established within the European Parliament. The Working Group should review all rules and procedures currently applicable on the eligibility for funding from the general budget of the European Union of activities performed by European parties and foundations. That review should focus on the activities performed and on the practices observed to date as well as on the decisions of eligibility adopted by the Bureau of the European Parliament. The Working Group should propose any clarification or amendment to those rules and procedures it considers appropriate and should advise on decisions of eligibility to be adopted by the Bureau of the European Parliament.
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b – subparagraph 1
(1) In Article 3(1)b, the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘its member parties must be represented by, in at least one quarter of the Member States, members of the European Parliament, of national Parliaments, of regional parliaments or of regional assemblies, or’deleted
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 17 – paragraph 3
(1a) Article 17(3) is replaced by the following: “3. For the purposes of determining eligibility for funding from the general budget of the European Union in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article and point (b) of Article 3(1), and for the application of Article 19(1), a member of a regional parliament or assembly, of a national parliament or of the European Parliament shall be considered asto be a member of only one European political party, which shall, where relevant, be the one to which his or her national or regional political party is affiliated on the final date for the submission of applications for funding. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32014R1141&from=EN)Furthermore those members who belong to a political party that is not affiliated to a European party shall be considered as members of the European party whose Board accepted them in writing as members.” Or. en
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 18 – paragraph 3 a
3a. A European political party shall include in its application evidence demonstrating that the majority of its member parties have continuously published on their websites, during 12 months preceding the moment at which the applications is made, the political programme and logo of the European political party as well asnd are encouraged to include information, in relation to each of the member parties of the European political party, on the gender representation among the candidates at the last elections to the European Parliament and among the Members of the European Parliament.
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – indent 1
510 % shall be distributed in equal shares among the beneficiary European political parties,
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – indent 2
– 950 % shall be distributed in proportion to their share of elected members of the European Parliament among the beneficiary European political parties.
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 32 a
(6a) The following Article shall be inserted: “Article 32a Working Group on Transparency of European Parties and Foundations’ Activities 1. A permanent Working Group on Transparency of European Parties and Foundations’ Activities (‘the Working Group’) shall be established within the European Parliament. 2. The Working Group shall perform the following tasks: (a) review all rules and procedures currently applicable to the eligibility for funding from the general budget of the European Union of activities performed by European parties and foundations; (b) propose any clarification or amendment to the rules and procedures referred to in point (a) it considers appropriate; (c) give an advice on all decisions of eligibility to be adopted by the Bureau of the European Parliament. 3. The Working Group shall be composed by one Member of the European Parliament from each political group existing in the European Parliament, as well as the Director General of the Authority for European Political Parties and Foundations and the Director General of the Directorate- General for Finance of the European Parliament, both acting as advisors.”
2017/10/31
Committee: AFCO