6 Amendments of Loránt VINCZE related to 2020/2044(INI)
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the important role of the Committee on Petitions as the only committee directly communicating with the citizens, in defending and promoting the rights of EU citizens and residents, ensuring that petitioners’ concerns and complaints are examined in timely fashion and, wherever possible, resolved, through an open, democratic and transparent petition process;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasizes the importance of a continuous public debate on the Union’s fields of activity aimed at informing citizens about their citizenship rights, the scope of the Union’s competences and the different levels of decision-making, in order to reduce the number of inadmissible petitions;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for a more focused and active press and communications service and a more active social media presence, making the work of the committee more responsive to public concerns, by also highlighting those cases and success stories, in which an issue raised by a petitioner was solved with the support of the PETI Committee;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Points to the important ongoing work by the Committee on Petitions to ensure the protection of animal welfare in the EU, as demonstrated by the significant number of petitions on this topic discussed in its meetings in 2019; draws attention to the public hearing on the ‘Revaluation of the wolf population in the EU’, which the Committee on Petitions held on 5 December 2019 jointly with the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and in association with the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, in order to give voice to citizens’ concerns about the legal framework for the protection of the wolf as well as the impact of the wolf, and other large carnivores, such as brown bear population on the environment and rural communities; emphasizes that in the framework of the Habitats Directive large carnivores belong to the protected species in most of the Member States; calls on the Member States to make better use of the tools under the existing EU legislation to address possible conflicts concerning the conservation of protected large carnivores; invites the Commission to present as soon as possible an updated EU guidance on species protection rules in order to achieve a satisfactory coexistence between people and large carnivores in affected areas;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses that the ECI is an important instrument for active citizenship and public participation; welcomes the adoption on 17 April 2019 of the new rules for the ECI, which bring a number of structural and technical improvements to make this instrument more user-friendly and accessible as well as to facilitate increased participation of EU citizens in the democratic process of the Union; notes the significant number of new ECIs registered by the Commission in 2019, which shows that citizens are seizing the opportunity to use participatory instruments to have a say in policymaking and lawmaking processes; regrets that so far none of the successful ECIs ended with a legislative proposal by the Commission; encourages the Commission to approach ECIs as openly and responsively as possible in order to make this instrument a real success of European participatory democracy in the eyes of the citizens;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Recalls that the Petitions Web Portal is an essential tool for ensuring a smooth, efficient and transparent petition process; welcomes, in this regard, its alignment with the ‘look and feel’ of the European Parliament’s website (Europarl), which has made the portal more responsive and accessible for citizens; stresses that efforts must be continued to make the portal more accessible to persons with disabilities; suggests ensuring more visibility for the Petitions Web Portal at the European Parliament’s website; is of the opinion that the right to petition is directly linked to the institution’s activities and deserves a visible and easily accessible place at the EP’s website;