2020/2132(INI) Parliament’s right of initiative
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- Committee opinion 2021/03/22
Progress: Awaiting committee decision
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | AFCO | RANGEL Paulo ( EPP) | BENIFEI Brando ( S&D), GOZI Sandro ( Renew), DELBOS-CORFIELD Gwendoline ( Verts/ALE), MADISON Jaak ( ID), CHAIBI Leila ( GUE/NGL) |
Committee Opinion | LIBE | DELBOS-CORFIELD Gwendoline ( Verts/ALE) | Caterina CHINNICI ( S&D), Sophia IN 'T VELD ( RE), Nicolaus FEST ( ID), Anne-Sophie PELLETIER ( GUE/NGL), Isabel WISELER-LIMA ( PPE), Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI ( ECR) |
Committee Opinion | JURI | DURAND Pascal ( Renew) | Angel DZHAMBAZKI ( ECR), Gilles LEBRETON ( ID), Tiemo WÖLKEN ( S&D), Manon AUBRY ( GUE/NGL), Marie TOUSSAINT ( Verts/ALE), Marion WALSMANN ( PPE) |
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54, RoP 57
Legal Basis:
RoP 54, RoP 57Subjects
Events
2021/07/05
Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading
2021/03/22
EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2020/09/17
EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
2020/09/17
EP - Referral to associated committees announced in Parliament
2020/07/13
EP - DURAND Pascal (Renew) appointed as rapporteur in JURI
2020/06/11
EP - DELBOS-CORFIELD Gwendoline (Verts/ALE) appointed as rapporteur in LIBE
2020/05/26
EP - RANGEL Paulo (EPP) appointed as rapporteur in AFCO
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- Antonio TAJANI
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- Brando BENIFEI
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- Caterina CHINNICI
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- Pascal DURAND
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- Angel DZHAMBAZKI
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- Charles GOERENS
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- Othmar KARAS
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- Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI
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- Gilles LEBRETON
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- Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR
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- Maite PAGAZAURTUNDÚA
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- Paulo RANGEL
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- Helmut SCHOLZ
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- Clare DALY
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- Leila CHAIBI
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- Gwendoline DELBOS-CORFIELD
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- Márton GYÖNGYÖSI
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- Grace O'SULLIVAN
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- Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP
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- Andrey SLABAKOV
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- László TRÓCSÁNYI
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- Salvatore DE MEO
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Amendments | Dossier |
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2020/2132(INI)
2021/01/08
JURI
33 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital 1 a (new) A. whereas the Commission shall promote the general interest of the Union and take appropriate initiatives to that end; whereas Union legislative acts may only be adopted on the basis of a Commission proposal, except where the Treaties provide otherwise, as laid down in Article 17 of the Treaty of European Union (TEU);
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that the European Council has a de-facto right of initiative within the area of freedom, security and justice in accordance with Article 68 TFEU, which does not reflect
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that the European Council has a de-facto right of initiative within the area of freedom, security and justice in accordance with Article 68 TFEU
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Believes that the Council and Parliament should have a
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Believes that Parliament should
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Believes that Parliament should have an enhanced direct right of legislative initiative, as it directly represents the European
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Believes that, in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2019/788, in case the Commission has failed to publish its intentions or has set out in a communication that it intends not to take action on a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) that has met the procedural requirements, Parliament could decide to follow up with an INL report that is based on the ECI; Urges the Commission to commit itself to submit a legislative proposal following the adoption of a Parliament’s initiative that is based on an ECI that has met the procedural requirements and that is in line with the Treaties and the core values of the Union enshrined in Article 2 TEU; Proposes in that regard to modify the Interinstitutional Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Notes that providing Parliament with the right of legislative initiative would require a Treaty revision and therefore exploring the potential of current treaty provisions to enhance the influence the Parliament can have on initiating legislation are worth looking at in order to pave the way to its direct right to initiative;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Stresses the importance of the Interinstitutional Agreement between the Parliament, Council and the Commission and the Framework Agreement on relation between the Parliament and the Commission and the fact that changes there can enhance the legislative agenda setting powers of Parliament and recalibrate the institutional balance without formally changing the Treaties;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Proposes to consider developing a procedure for Parliament to support ideas in form of a sponsorship to for instance European Economic and Social Committee´s and European Committee of the Regions’ positions within the framework of Article 225 TFEU;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Deeply regrets that only one-third of Parliament’s legislative and non- legislative initiative procedures can be considered successful and that most legislative initiative (INL) reports adopted since 2011 did not result in a positive reply
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital 1 b (new) B. whereas the Treaties grant Parliament the direct right of initiative only in very limited cases, namely its own composition, the election of its members and their Statute, the Statute of the European Ombudsman, to initiate a rule of law procedure, to set up temporary inquiry committees and to initiate Treaty revisions; whereas Parliament has the right to request from the Commission to submit any appropriate proposal on matters it considers relevant for a Union act for the purpose of implementing the Treaties, according to Article 225 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU); whereas Rule 47 of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament (RoP) further details this indirect right of initiative;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Deeply regrets that on
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Is of the opinion that INL reports in the area of the ordinary legislative procedure, with only one addressee and
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Considers that the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making plays an essential role in securing sincere and transparent cooperation throughout the entire legislative cycle and allows to achieve a better and mutual understanding of the respective positions of the different institutions; calls for an assessment of the extent to which the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making should be revised with the purpose of eliminating possible barriers to the Parliament right of Initiative;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Considers that new EU law- making mechanisms associating EU citizens and their elected representatives in the European Parliament should be designed in order to improve citizens participation and the European democracy as a whole; believes for instance that the procedural thresholds for ECIs should be lowered where the proposal for an ECI is co-signed by a minimal number of MEPs;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Reminds that Parliament has a structure for impact assessment activities and is convinced that the use of it should be mandatory before drafting a legislative own-initiative report in order to enhance the European added value assessment foreseen in the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Emphasises that Parliament fully adheres to the interinstitutional agreement between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on Better Law-Making, which stresses the necessity of a prior "European added value" analysis as well as a "cost of non- Europe" assessment;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Asks the Commission to study the possibility of introducing mechanisms of direct democracy, such as citizen's assemblies or referendum vote on specific issues, which would grant EU citizens decisional or consultative power in the EU law-making process, without depending on the reform of the Treaty;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Urges the Commission, as the guardian of the Treaties, to adhere to its responsibilities and to
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital 1 c (new) C. whereas Article 225 TFEU obliges the Commission to give reasons, in case it would not submit a legislative proposal as requested by Parliament; recalls thereby the compulsory character of this Treaty provision;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Is of the opinion that, if the Commission fails to implement Parliament’s
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Considers that, were the Commission does not
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Is convinced that Article 294 TFEU should be revised in a way that Parliament’s resolution requesting a legislative act pursuant to Article 225 TFEU, adopted by a majority of members shall form the basis for a legislative procedure to be initiated by Parliament itself, if the Commission does not forward a legislative proposal within 12 months after Parliament’s request;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital 1 d (new) D. whereas the European Parliament is the only directly elected EU institution, which at the same time has less legislative initiative powers than most national parliaments;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital 1 e (new) E. whereas Ms Ursula von der Leyen, before she was elected President of the Commission, committed to respond to legislative initiatives, when adopted by a majority of Parliament’s members and in full respect of the proportionality, subsidiarity, and better law-making principles;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital 1 f (new) F. whereas the Conference on the Future of Europe will be an avenue for further reflection with civil society on how to best strengthen the Parliament’s right of initiative with regards to better law- making;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital 1 g (new) Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Believes that the Commission’s right of legislative initiative, as set out in the Treaties, has been neither constructive nor productive in recent years,
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1.
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