Activities of Cristian Dan PREDA related to 2014/2252(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the annual reports 2012-2013 on subsidiarity and proportionality
Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes in this respect the fact that the Commission verifies ex ante if its proposals are necessary and if the objectives of the action envisaged cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, and that it justifies its action in relation to the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, in accordance with Article 5 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality; strongly underlines the importance of impact assessments for ensuring the respect of these same two principles in the preparation of legislative proposals; equally underlines that ensuring respect of principles of subsidiarity and proportionality should also be a priority for the European Commission when evaluating existing EU policies;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasises that the use of the European Union's competences should be guided by the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, as stated in the article 5 of the TEU; welcomes that in 2012 and 2013 the respect of these two principles was carefully scrutinized by the European Union's institutions, as well as by national parliaments;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines thePositively notewors thye growth in information exchanged by national parliaments through the IPEX system, ands welcomel as the increase in the number of reasoned opinions issued by national parliaments (+ 9 % in 2012, + 25% in 2013), insist2013); highlights that both in 2012 and 2013 national parliaments used the yellow card ing that the influence of national parliaments on European law should grow, especially as many national chambers express negative opinions on particular acte context of the subsidiarity control mechanism; considers therefore that national parliaments improved their capacity to use the prerogatives they have in the subsidiarity control mechanism; strongly encourages national parliaments to further develop the cooperation among them in order to make fully use of the role they are given by the existing treaties;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines European Parliament's commitment to ensure the respect of the subsidiarity and proportionality principles through assessments of its own legislative own-initiative reports, ex-ante appraisals of Commission's impact assessments and the constant evaluation of the potential EU added value and of the "cost of non-Europe";
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that the eight-week period, given their experience, national parliaments could bring significant contributions to the European debate and decision-making process; encourages therefore national parliaments to fully use the competences they were given by the existing treaties, including by further developing the cooperation among them; considers that a reflection on the number of weeks given to national parliaments to issue a reasoned opinion under the Article 6 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality shcould be extended significantly to allow national parliaments to participate to a greater extent; encourages national parliaments to become more involved in the European debatefruitful, in order to identify possible improvements of the current legislative framework;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets the deficit in material criteria for establishingNotes that reasoned opinions issued by national parliaments point out the existence of a violvarious interpretations of the subsidiarity and proportionality principles; freminds that this has led to a diversity of criteria applied by national parliaments in their evaluation of proposals, and calls for the adoption of guidelines to define the principles and methods for the examination of subsidiarity and proportionality issues in a better wain this context that the subsidiarity principle as formulated in the Treaties allows European Union to act in areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence only "if and in so far as the objectives of the proposed action cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, either at central level or at the regional and local level, but can rather, by reason of scale or effects of the proposed action, be better achieved at the Union level; equally reminds that "under the principle of proportionality, the content and form of the Union action shall not exceed what is necessary to achieve the objective of the Treaties"; encourages national parliaments to be faithful to the letter of the TEU when evaluating the respect of the subsidiarity and proportionality principles; strongly recommends national parliaments and European institutions to engage into exchanges of views and practices of scrutinizing subsidiarity and proportionality;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5