5 Amendments of Cristian Dan PREDA related to 2015/2326(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that when monitoring the application of Union law under the control of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Commission is ensuring the application of the treaties in accordance with Article 17 TEU;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the steady decrease in the number of infringement proceedings launched by the Commission under Article 258 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) in the years 2010- 2014, which according to the Commission 2014 Annual Report could be attributed both to the EU pilot structured dialogue with the Member States and to the significant increase in preliminary rulings under Article 267 TFEU; further welcomes the significant efforts made by the European Commission to promote compliance before the infringement proceedings which resulted in a 75% resolution rate in 2014;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes the recent efforts made by the Commission to ensure better access to information on the application of Union law for EU citizens and businesses by launching the new web section ‘Applying Union law’;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. URegrets that the verification of correct transposition of directives by Member States remains a problem as indicated in the annual report 2014; calls on the Member States to take all the necessary measures to respect their commitments as agreed in the Joint Political Declaration of 28.September 2011 of Member States and the Commission on explanatory documents, including by submitting correlation tables containing clear and precise information; underlines that Member States should express their political concerns at an early stage rather than postponing the timely transposition of Union law;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that proper and transparent monitoring of the application of Union law by the Commission is part of the Commission’s Better Regulation Agenda and believes that as inof the latest inter-institutional agreements, different institutional powers and prerogatives must be exercised as transparently as possible on better law making; calls on the Member States to avoid the practice of “gold-plating” in order to reduce overregulation and administrative burdens and expects Member States to clearly indicate and document such measures; believes that unnecessary national measures added to EU legislation increase Euroscepticism and undermines EU legitimacy and actions.