Activities of François ALFONSI related to 2022/2206(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the implementation of the Regulations on the European citizens’ initiative
Amendments (16)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 17 December 2020 on the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Minority SafePack – one million signatures for diversity in Europe’,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the ECI represented one of the main innovations introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon and became the world’s first transnational democracy mechanism;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas, pursuant to Article 15(2) of the revised ECI Regulation and after a public hearing held by the European Parliament, the Commission is legally obliged to set out in a communication its legal and political conclusions on a valid ECI, the action it intends to take, if any, and its reasons for taking or not taking action;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
J a. whereas ECIs have so far showed a low level of effectiveness and a limited visibility risking to weaken this participatory mechanism and negatively affect citizens’ trust in EU institutions; whereas the ECI needs to be strengthened in order to become a genuine bottom-up process of legislative initiative at the EU level;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points out that the ECI is the only tool for participatory democracy at EU level that can potentially lead to a proposal for a legal act of the Union; considers it essential to involve citizens, in particular young people, in the democratic life of the Union; recalls, therefore, that the use of the ECI instrument must be enhanced by all available meansimproving its accessibility, legal effectiveness and visibility;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the online collection of statements of support is fundamental for the success of ECIs; welcomes the improvements made by the Commission to its central online collection system, including the possibility of customising its features and providing statistics to citizens; is concerned, however, that phasing out individual online collection systems might have a negative effect on the possibility for organisers to use online collection systems tailored to their needs; underlines that the figures show that individual online collection systems have a considerably higher success rate for ECIs of approximatively 31% while the central online collection system provided by the Commission has a success rate of 8,4%;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points to the imbalance between the huge amount of effort and extensive resources necessary to organise ECIs and their weak legal effects, even if the required threshold of one million signatures is reached, which may deter citizens from launching ECIs and undermine citizens’ trust in EU institutions;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Regrets the weak legal impact of valid ECIs; stresses that, for the objectives of the revised ECI Regulation to be achieved and the full potential of this instrument to be realised, the Commission needs to appropriately consider and respond to valid ECIs by proposing appropriate legal acts, especially when Parliament adopted its position in line with the demands of a valid ECIs;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Encourages the Commission to interlink the website of the EU on the ECI with appropriate online platforms at national level on citizens’ participation in order to gain more visibility;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Invites the Commission to approach the Member States to further encourage reducing the minimum age to participate in an ECI from 18 to 16 years, in line with Article 2 of the revised ECI Regulation;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. InvitesCalls on the Commission to start a reflection process on the usefulness ofconsider the reintroducingtion of the option for organisers to use individual online collection systems, which, contrary to the central online collection system, enable organisers to plan and perform campaigns in a decentralised way taking into account the multilingual and multicultural context in the different Member States and regions;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Invites the Commission to consider the introduction of new rules aiming to harmonise the verification and certification procedures at national level, in order to avoid arbitrariness for the organisers of ECIs;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Commits to review Article 11(4) TEU with a view to increase the accessibility and legal effectiveness of the ECI by enhancing Parliament’s role and considering an alignment with the common practice at national level where citizens’ initiatives are addressed to national or regional parliaments;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to engage better withwith organisers of valid ECIs even after it has issued its communication, thereby increasing the possibility of legislative follow-up in the long term;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recommends thatCommits to vote on a parliamentary resolution after every valid ECI and every Commission communication setting out its legal and political conclusions on a specific ECI be followed by a vote on a parliamentary resolution, which would require the modification of Rule 222(8) and (9) of Parliament’s Rules of Procedure;