14 Amendments of Sylvie GUILLAUME related to 2012/2308(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10
Citation 10
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Article 341 TFEU and Protocol 6 annexed to the Treaties establish that the seats of the Union’s institutions shall be determined unanimously by the Member States, that Parliament shall have its seat in Strasbourg where 12 periods of monthly plenary sessions, including the budget session, shall be held, that the periods of additional plenary sessions shall be held in Brussels, that its committees shall meet in Brussels, and that its General Secretariat and its departments shall remain in Luxembourg;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the ECJ has stated that the location of the seat is not to hinder the well-functioning of Parliament; whereas it has further stated that there are disadvantages and costs engendered by the plurality of working locations, but also that any improvement of the current situation requires a Treaty change and, thus, the consent ofresponsibility for making any change lies neither with Parliament nor with the Court, but, rather, by exercising their exclusive power to determine the seats of the institutions, with the Member States;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the structure of Parliament’s calendar (fixed during the Edinburgh Summit in 1992) predates all changes to its role arising from the adoption of the Treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon; whereas, under the Edinburgh compromise, it was determined that Parliament’s seat is Strasbourg - a decision subsequently incorporated into the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1997 and the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the fact of geographical distance between the official seats of the co- legislative bodies – 435 km – isolates Parliament not only fromreflects a multi- centre approach to the question of the European Union’s seats; whereas media coverage of parliamentary business during part-sessions in Strasbourg is far greater than during Brussels mini- sessions, since the attention of one of the world’s largest international journalistic communities - and of the Council and, the Commission, but also fromand other stakeholders, such as NGOs, civil society organisations and Member State representations, and from one of the world’s largest international journalistic communities - is focused on a single institution;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas, according to figures acknowledged by Parliament’s Secretariat, the additional annual costs resulting from the geographic dispersion of Parliament have conservatively been estimated to range betweenbeen estimated at EUR 5169 million and EUR 204 million4, which is equivalent to between 15 % and 20 % of Parliament0.04% of the EU’s annual budget, while the environmental impact is also significant, with the CO2 emissions associated with the transfers to and from the three working locations estimated to amount to at least 19 000put at 4 199 tonnes5;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M – footnote 4
Recital M – footnote 4
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M – footnote 5
Recital M – footnote 5
5 ‘European Parliament two-seat operation: Environmental costs, transport & energy’, report prepared by Eco-Logica Ltd. for the Greens/EFA, November 2007Figures provided by Parliament’s Secretary-General, ‘Replies and follow-up to the discharge for 2010’ (paragraph 28). .
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas citizens of the EU – including the 1.27 million citizens whohave signed an on-line petition asking for a single seat – have repeatedly expressed their discontent with, which does not fulfil the criteria for the admissibility of signatures as laid down in the Rules of Procedure of the cEurrent arrangeopean Parliaments;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that Parliament should have the right to determine it, without prejudice to Parliament’s pown working arrangements, including the righters of internal organisation, it is for the Member States to decidtermine where and when it the European institutions shoulds its meeting have their seats;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for the figures on the cost of the European Parliament’s three places of work to be perfectly objectively and transparently researched on the basis of verifiable data supplied by Parliament's Secretariat;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Acknowledges that any future decision by Parliament on its working arrangeTakes the view that the issue of the European Parliament’s must allow sufficient time for debate and reflection, as well as for an orderly transiseat can only be considered in the context of a debate on the seats of all the European institutions;