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2015/2319(INI) Control of the Register and composition of the Commission's expert groups
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2016/07/04
Lead committee dossier: CONT/8/05053
Legal Basis RoP 052
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2016/07/04
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Opinion | BUDG | TRÜPEL Helga (Verts/ALE) | |
Lead | CONT | DE JONG Dennis (GUE/NGL) | GRÄSSLE Ingeborg (EPP), DLABAJOVÁ Martina (ALDE), VALLI Marco (EFD) |
Opinion | JURI |
Legal Basis RoP 052
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2016/07/04
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2015/11/26
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2015/2319(INI)
2016/03/08
BUDG
13 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas its Committee on Budgets, in light of the lack of transparency
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Urges the Commission to adopt a more proactive approach to the participation of under-represented groups such as civil society and trade unions, to tackle existing information asymmetries, and to develop, in dialogue with these groups, a special allowance system for that purpose;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Urges the European Commission to ensure the full consultation of those groups currently underrepresented when putting forward proposals for the reform of the expert groups.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Requests the Commission to put forward a plan for action in line with the recommendations of the European Ombudsman; this plan should include deadlines for action and progress to ensure timely results; it should also be presented with sufficient time for the Parliament to consider before it prepares its position on the Budget 2017
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas a recent study it commissioned1 has identified a widespread lack of transparency and an at times imbalance
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) C a. whereas balanced composition and transparency are critical preconditions for the expertise to adequately reflect the needs for regulatory action and fosters its legitimacy in the eyes of European citizens.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Underlines that despite the progress that resulted from the 2011 budgetary reserve, the Commission has so far failed to alter the horizontal rules for EGs and their practices in a way that would meet Parliament’s requests for transparency, and that the number of EGs in which there is an imbalance has increased
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Points out, in this context, and with regard to par. 34-45 of the Ombudsman's aforementioned opinion, that, although the Comission has not yet formally defined its concept of 'balance', the latter is not to be understood as the result of an arithmetic exercise, but rather as the result of efforts to ensure that the members of an EG, together, possess the necessary technical expertise and breadth of perspectives to deliver on the mandate of the EG in question; finds that the concept of balance should, therefore, be understood as tied to the specific mandate of each single EG; considers that the criteria to assess whether an EG is balanced should include the tasks of the group, the technical expertise required, the stakeholders who would be most likely affected by the matter, the organisation of groups of stakeholders, and the appropriate ratio of economic and non- economic interests;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Underlines that the trust of European citizens in the European Union suffers from a lack of transparency and the over- reliance on economic actors in EU-law making and does hence underline that the effective reform of the EC's expert groups system will make the EU more legitimate.
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1 c. Welcomes the Commission's public announcement that the revised framework for EGs will take up a number of Parliament's and the Ombudsman's suggestions, such as mandatory open calls for application, an improved register, mandatory registration in the Transparency Register for stakeholder representatives, a definition, for each EG, of the profiles needed to ensure a balanced composition, as well as mandatory declarations on conflicts of interest, which will be put on the register;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1 d. Urges the Commission to implement, moreover, the Ombudsman's recommendations on transparency, namely, that the agendas, background documents and minutes of EG meetings should be published, unless, in exceptional cases and with the Commission's consent, a majority of members decides otherwise, and that the published minutes should be as meaningful as possible and set out the positions expressed by the members;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Urges the Commission
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