Activities of Vicky FORD related to 2014/2145(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the review of the economic governance framework: stocktaking and challenges
Amendments (9)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the improvement of the economic governance framework should be based on a set of interconnected and mutually consistent policies that foster growth, competitiveness and employment, and whereas the full developmentunlocking the benefits of the Single Market is a prerequisite for this to happenlso key to delivering these aims;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Commission should monitor the completion of the Single Market and the actualSingle Market taking account of the implementation of themeasures relevant measures withinto the economic governance framework and should report on obstacles to its functioning, taking account of the annual governance check-up and the scoreboard reporting mechanisms; whereas monitoring should assess the extent to which consumers and businesses alike benefit from the Single Market; whereas the Commission should include in the annual governance check-up and the scoreboard obstacles to the implementation of Single Market legislation; whereas monitoring should assess the extent to which consumers and businesses alike benefit from the Single Market and take in to account the challenges faced by consumers and businesses operating across the Single Market, in particular areas where Member States have not implemented or enforced Single Market legislation;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers the economic governance framework to be a key political initiative that underpins the foundations of at by unlocking the Single Market's untapped growth potential, in line withe Europe 2020 goals and flagship initiatives which are aimed at fully exploit, Member States will more easily fulfil the targets embedded in the economic governance framework; furthermore, considers that the primary actors ing the Single Market’s untapped growth potential are consumers and businesses; underlines the fact that the economic crisis has clearly shown the importance of strengthening the EU’s innovation potential by facilitating market access and mobility both for consumers and businesses and combating Single Market fragmentation across the Union; through the proper implementation and enforcement of Single Market legislation by Member States;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the review of the framework’s effectiveness, with a view to assessing the effective and uniform application of governance rules by the Commission, the Council and the Member States; believes that only where relevant this review should also inspire a re-evaluation of the Single Market governance framework and explore possible synergy effects between the two processes;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates its call for the procedures to provide for the appropriate involvement of the European Parliament in the economic governance cycle, paving the way for the adoption, by Parliament and the Council,in line with the existing legislation, paving the way, if deemed necessary by the Commission and Member States, for the adoption of the measures necessary to strengthen Single Market governance, and in particular those which address the areas in which the Union’s regulatory framework has been established in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure laid down in Article 294 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that the economic governance framework needs to be inclusivetake account of national specificities and that political priorities also have to be discussed in a more comprehensive manner, in order to distribute the spread of national ownership and effectively implement bo with relevant stakeholders whilst remaining independent from vested interests, in order to ensure national parliaments are more fully involved in the process of effectively implementing measures laid out in the economic governance andframework and in the context of Single Market governancelegislation;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. InsistNotes that the evaluation of the state of the Single Market should be made an integral part of the economic governance framework, laying the foundation for an annual Single Market cycle by reinforcing a pillar dedicated to the Single Market within the European Semesteris worthwhile in its own right, and should not be conflated with the different, although linked, objectives of the economic governance framework; notes that updates on the state of the Single Market on a similar cycle to those required by the European Semester could be a helpful contribution to identifying the obstacles to the functioning of the Single Market;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to submit to Parliament an annual report on the effectiveness of the Single Market integration, assessing the effectiveness of the implementation of the country-specific recommendations, and points out that the assessment could be provided as a contribution to the Annual Growth Surveys well as the implementation and enforcement of Single Market legislation by Member States;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that good economic governance and the impact thereof can be effective only if allrelevant stakeholders are involved; invites the Commission and the Member States to secure the democratic principle of civil dialogue through the structurcontinued involvement of relevant stakeholders in economic governance, and in particular in the European Semester process.