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Activities of Sylvie GOULARD related to 2015/2035(INL)

Shadow reports (1)

2016/11/22
Committee: AFCO
Dossiers: 2015/2035(INL)
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Amendments (30)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)

– having regard to its previous resolutions on Parliament’s electoral procedure, and in particular its resolution of 15 July 1998 on a draft electoral procedure incorporating common principles for the election of Members of the European Parliament a __________________ 1a OJ C 292, 21.9.1998, p. 66.

2015/09/01
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 b (new)

– having regard to the report of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of 28 April 2011 on a proposal for a modification of the Act concerning the election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage of 20 September 1976 (A7-0176/2011),

2015/09/01
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the reform of Parliament’s electoral procedure should aim at enhancing the democratic and supranational dimension of the European elections, reinforce the concept of citizenship of the Union, improve the functioning of the European Parliament and the governance of the Union, make the work of the European Parliament more legitimate and efficient, enhance the effectiveness of the system for conducting European elections, and provide for greater electoral equality for citizens of the Union;

2015/09/01
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Decides to reform its electoral procedure in good time before the 2019 elections, with the aim of enhancing the democratic and supranational dimension of the European elections, reinforcing the concept of citizenship of the Union, improving the functioning of the European Parliament and the governance of the Union, making the work of the European Parliament more legitimate and efficient, enhancing the effectiveness of the system for conducting European elections, and providing for greater electoral equality for citizens of the Union;

2015/09/01
Committee: AFCO

Article 1 – paragraph 1

1. In each Member State, members of the European Parliament shall be elected as representatives of the citizens of the Union on the basis of proportional representation, using the list system or the single transferable vote.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 1 a (new)

Article 1a 1. For the purpose of allocating seats among Member States in accordance with the principle of degressive proportionality pursuant to Article 14 of the Treaty on European Union, the ratio between the population of each Member State and the number of seats allocated to it, before rounding to whole numbers, shall vary in relation to the respective populations of the Member States in such a way that each Member of the European Parliament from a more populous Member State represents more citizens than each Member from a less populous Member State and, conversely, that the larger the population of a Member State, the greater its entitlement to a large number of seats. 2. Where a State accedes to the Union during a parliamentary term, it shall be allocated seats which will be added to the number of seats provided for in Article 14 of the Treaty on European Union on a transitional basis for the remainder of that parliamentary term.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 2 a (new)

Article 2a 1. Pursuant to Article 14 of the Treaty on European Union, there shall be one additional constituency formed of the entire territory of the Union from which 25 Members shall be elected. 2. The European Parliament and the Council, acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure, shall establish an electoral authority to conduct and verify the electoral process of the European Union constituency referred to in paragraph 1. 3. Transnational lists of candidates for election in the European Union constituency shall be submitted by the European political parties and shall be admissible only: (a) if the candidates whose names appear on the lists in question are, in the aggregate, resident in at least one third of the Member States, and (b) if the lists in question are balanced in terms of gender. 4. Each elector shall have one supplementary vote that may be cast for the European Union-wide list. 5. Detailed arrangements for elections in the European Union constituency shall be laid down in implementing measures to be adopted in accordance with Article 14.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. There shall be no minimum threshold for the allocation of seats from the European Union constituency referred to in Article 2a(1).

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 3 a (new)

Article 3a Each Member State shall set a deadline for the establishment of electoral lists at national level at least 12 weeks before the start of the electoral period referred to in Article 10(1).

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 3 a (new)

Article 3c All electoral lists must contain an equal number of men and women, with lists alternating between male and female candidates.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 3 b (new)

Article 3b Electoral materials distributed shall include the names and logos of the national political parties of any European political parties to which they are affiliated. They shall also provide a reference to the manifesto of the European political party, if any, to which they are affiliated.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 3 d (new)

Article 3d The rules concerning the posting of electoral materials to voters in elections to the European Parliament shall be the same as those applied for national, regional and local elections.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 4

Each Member State may set a ceiling for ~~candidates' campaign expenses~~the campaign expenses of candidates and political parties at the national and/or regional level. The electoral authority of the Member State concerned shall set a ceiling for the campaign expenses of candidates and political parties at the European Union level.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 5 – paragraph 1

1. The five-year term for which members of the European Parliament are elected shall begin at the opening of the first session following each election. It may be extended or curtailed pursuant to the second subparagraph of Article 101(2).

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 6 – paragraph 1

1. Members of the European Parliament shall vote on an individual and personal basis. They shall not be bound by any instructions and shall not receive a binding mandate. They shall represent all the citizens of the Union.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 7 – paragraph 1 – indent 1

– member of ~~the Government of a Member State~~a national or regional parliament,

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 7 – paragraph 2

2. From the European Parliament elections in 2004, the office of member of the European Parliament shall be incompatible with that of member of a national parliament. By way of derogation from that rule and without prejudice to paragraph 3: – members of the Irish National Parliament who are elected to the European Parliament at a subsequent poll may have a dual mandate until the next election to the Irish National Parliament, at which juncture the first subparagraph of this paragraph shall apply; – members of the United Kingdom Parliament who are also members of the European Parliament during the five-year term preceding election to the European Parliament in 2004 may have a dual mandate until the 2009 European Parliament elections, when the first subparagraph of this paragraph shall apply.deleted

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 7 – paragraph 4

4. Members of the European Parliament to whom paragraphs 1~~, 2~~ and 3 become applicable in the course of the five-year period referred to in Article 5 shall be replaced in accordance with Article 13.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)

Where, in a Member State, the turnout in the last elections to the European Parliament was below 50%, that Member State shall take action to increase the turnout and shall provide for information campaigns.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 9

NWithout prejudice to Article 2a, no one may vote more than once in any election of members of the European Parliament. In order to ensure that this principle is respected, the European Parliament and the Council, acting by means of a regulation in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure, shall establish an electoral roll at European Union level.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 11

1. The Council, acting unanimously after consulting the European Parliament, shall determine the electoral period for the first elections. 2. Subsequent elections shall take place in the corresponding period in the last year of the five-year period referred to in Article 5. Should it prove impossible to hold the elections in the Community during that period, the Council acting unanimously shall, after consulting the European Parliament, determine, at least one year before the end of the five-year term referred to in Article 5, another electoral period which shall not be more than two months before or one month after the period fixed pursuant to the preceding subparagraphEuropean Parliament, after consulting the Council, shall determine the electoral period for the elections at least one year before the end of the five-year term referred to in Article 5. 3. Without prejudice to Article ~~196~~229 of the Treaty ~~establish~~on the Functioning of the European ~~Community~~Union and Article 109 of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, the European Parliament shall meet, without requiring to be convened, on the first Tuesday after expiry of an interval of one month from the end of the electoral period. ~~4. The powers of the European Parliament shall cease upon the opening of the first sitting of the new European Parliament.~~

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 12

The European Parliament shall verify the credentials of mthe Members of the European Parliament. For this purpose it shall take note of the results declared officially by the Member States and shall rule on any disputes which may arise out of the provisions of this Act other than those arising out of the national provisions to which the Act referParliament on the basis of the results declared officially by the electoral authority referred to in Article 2a(2) and the Member States.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 12 a (new)

Article 12a When former Members of the European Parliament intend to engage in an occupation during the period of 18 months after they have ceased to hold office, they shall inform the European Parliament within good time and the European Parliament shall examine the nature of the planned occupation. If the planned occupation is related to content for which the former Member in question has been responsible during his or her term of office, the European Parliament shall seek the opinion of the Ad Hoc Ethical Committee.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 13 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Where the law of a Member State provides for the temporary replacement of a member of its national parliament during the absence of that member on maternity leave, that State may decide that such provisions are to apply mutatis mutandis to the Members of the European Parliament elected in that State.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 13 a (new)

Article 13a 1. In the case of Members of the European Parliament elected for the European Union constituency, and subject to the other provisions of this Act, appropriate procedures for the filling of any vacancy for the remainder of the five- year term of office referred to in Article 5 shall be laid down in implementing measures to be adopted in accordance with Article 14. 2. Where the law of the Union makes explicit provision for withdrawal of the mandate of a Member of the European Parliament elected on the European Union-wide list, that mandate shall end pursuant to those legal provisions. The electoral authority shall inform the European Parliament of those legal provisions. 3. Where a seat of a Member of the European Parliament elected for the European Union constituency falls vacant as a result of resignation or death, the President of the European Parliament shall immediately inform the electoral authority of that vacancy.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 14

~~Should it appear necessary to adopt measures to implement this Act, the Council, acting unanimously on a proposal from~~Measures to implement this Act shall be proposed by the European Parliament, a~~fter consulting the Commission, shall adopt such measures after endeavouring to reach agreement with the European Parliament in a conciliation commit~~cting by a majority of its component members, and adopted by the Council, acting by a qualified majority, afteer consisulting of the Co~~uncil and representatives~~mmission and obtaining the consent of the European Parliament.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Article 15

This Act is drawn up in the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish languages, all the texts being equally authentic. Annexes I and II shall form an integral part of this ActPursuant to the Accession Treaties, the Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Maltese, Polish, Romanian, Slovak and Slovenian versions of this Act shall also be authentic.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Annex I

~~The United Kingdom will apply the provisions of this Act only in respect of the United Kingdom.~~Annex I deleted

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Annex II

~~As regards the procedure to be followed by the Conciliation Committee, it is agreed to have recourse to the provis~~Annex II deleted Declarations o~~f paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 of the procedure laid down in the joint declaration of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission of 4 March 19751. _____________ 1~~n Article 14 OJ C 89, 22. 4. 1975, p. 1.

2015/09/02
Committee: AFCO

Motion for a resolution
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – indent 1a (new)

– Member of a national or regional parliament,

2015/09/10
Committee: AFCO