9 Amendments of Derk Jan EPPINK related to 2012/2078(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that Member States sharing the euro need to further strengthen competitiveness, stability, efficiency and democratic accountability;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that part of the efforts made to mitigate the crisis, such as the adoption of, to mitigate the crisis and in response to structural shortcomings in the architecture of the economic and monetary union, national governments and European institutions took a wide range of measures to safeguard financial stability and improve economic governance; notes that part of these efforts only concern the euro area Member States, such as some specific rules regarding financial sanctions in the Ssix-Ppack and the creation of the ESM, only concern the euro area Member States. Also the two-pack, once adopted, will be specific to the euro area Member States. Furthermore, the euro area and six non- euro area Member States adopted the Euro Plus Pact, and the euro area and eight non-euro area Member States concluded the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Notes that two Member States have opt-outs from the introduction of the euro and two Member States have opt-outs from the implementation of the Schengen acquis;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Notes that enhanced cooperation provides a legal basis for the adoption of measures that only apply to a limited number of Member States; notes that this mechanism is being used already for trans-EU divorce law and for European patent law, and was approved by the European Parliament and the Council in the taxation context for the establishment of a Financial Transaction Tax;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the on-going creation of a single supervisory mechanism covering the euro area and open to all other EU Member States; considers that, to overcome the structural deficiencies inherent in the economic and monetary union and to effectively curb the pervasive moral hazard, the proposed 'banking union' should draw on the earlier reform of the Union financial services sector, including the creation of EBA, ESMA, EIOPA and the ESRB, as well as the strengthened economic governance, especially in the euro area, and the new budgetary framework of the European Semester, to ensure greater resilience and competitiveness of the Union banking sector, increased confidence in it, and enhanced capital reserves to prevent Member States' public budgets having to bear the costs of banks' bail-outs in the future;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the Commission's ‘Blueprint’; calls on the Commission to make legislative proposals under codecision for its implementation without delayTakes note of the Commission's 'Blueprint';
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points outConsiders that the concept of ‘contractual agreements’mutually agreed contracts for competitiveness and growth applicable only to individual Member States as referred to in the European Council conclusions of December 2012 risks creating legal uncertaintcould enhance ownership and effectiveness of economic policy;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that the work on own resofurther measurces should be accelerated, as should that on labour mobility and a euro area budget, to make it an optimal currency areaare needed to promote the deepening of the Single Market and to protect its integrity;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that Article 3.4 TEU states ‘'the Union shall establish an economic and monetary union whose currency is the euro’', and Protocol 14 on the Eurogroup foreseArticle 13 TEU establishes ‘the need to lay down special provisions for enhanced dialogue between the Member States whose currency is the euro, pending the euro becomingEuropean Parliament as a Union institution; considers therefore the cEurrency of all Member States’; if this supposedly transitory situation is to last, appropriateopean Parliament as the appropriate venue for ensuring accountability for the current euro area and the Member States that committed to join must be developed inside the European Parliament, underlines that the European Parliament should prevent fragmented scrutiny of cooperation between Member States.