15 Amendments of Constance LE GRIP related to 2014/2249(INI)
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Community method must be preserved and not be undermined by intergovernmental solutions, not even in areas where not all Member States fulfil the conditions for participation;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the institutional structure of the EMU should be transformed into an effective and democratic economic government, with Parliament and Council acting as equal co-legislators, the Commission fulfilling the role of the executive, national parliaments scrutinising national governments, the European Parliament scrutinising the EU level of decision-making, and the Court of Justice having control over all aspects of EMU enshrined in the Treaties;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that all the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty have not yet been exploited to their full potential even though they contain some necessary tools that could have been applied to prevent some of the crises with which the Union is confronted, or could be used to cope with the current challenges without having to initiate a Treaty revision in the short term;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that there may be complementarity between the Community method is superior toand the intergovernmental method as it, given that the Community method is the only one that allows for transparency, QMV in the Council, and the equal right of co-legislation by the European Parliament and Council, as well as preventing a fragmentation of institutional responsibilities and the development of competing institutions;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Is of the opinion that intergovernmental solutions should not exist, not even in areas where not all the Member States fulfil the conditions for participation, and that the Fiscal Compact and the European Stability Mechanism, as intended by the Treaties should therefore be incorporated into Union law, after an analysis of their implementation record, and no new institutions should be introduced;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the importance of cooperation between the European Parliament and national parliaments in joint bodies such as the Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the European Union (COSAC), and the Inter-parliamentary Conference on Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP-IPC), and in the framework of Article 13 of the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union on the basis of the principles of consensus, information sharing and consultation in order to exercise control over their respective administrations; underlines the need for strongcloser cooperation between the specialised committees of the European Parliament and their national equivalents;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Takes the view that care needs to be taken to prevent any ‘gold-plating’ of EU legislation by Member States and that national parliaments have a key role to play here;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Demands that the Council switches completely to QMV voting and that it abandons the practice of transferring contentious legislative fields to the European Council, as this goes against the letter and the spirit of the Treaty, which stipulates that the European Council can only decide unanimously, and should only do so, on broad political goals, not on legislation;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Is determined to implement fully Treaty provisions on enhanced cooperation by committing not to give its consent to any new enhanced cooperation proposals unless thedesiring that participating Member States commit as often as possible to activate the special ‘passerelle clause’ enshrined in Article 333 TFEU to switch from unanimity to QMV, and from a special to the ordinary legislative procedure;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Stresses the importance of taking full advantage of the enhanced cooperation procedure enshrined in Article 20 of the Treaty on European Union, especially among eurozone Member States, so that those Member States wishing to establish enhanced cooperation among themselves as part of the non-exclusive competences of the Union are able, through this mechanism, to promote the attainment of the objectives of the Union and strengthen their integration process subject to the limits and in accordance with the arrangements laid down in Articles 326- 334 TFEU;
Amendment 403 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Considers that the practical possibilities for national parliaments to ensure the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality should be improved, and cooperation between national parliaments strengthened, to enable them, in close coopenational parliaments should continue to be made aware of their key role in regard to monitoring application of the subsidiarity principle and that the praction among themselves, to reach the necessary quorum under article 7(3) of the Protocol on the application ofcal possibilities for national parliaments to ensure that the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality are respected should be improved;
Amendment 406 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Adds that cooperation between national parliaments should be strengthened, to enable them, in close cooperation among themselves, to reach the necessary quorum under Article 7(3) of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;
Amendment 649 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64
Paragraph 64
64. Considers it necessary to address the weakness in the existing institutional structure, whereby certain parts of the Treaty may be overseen by the Court of Justice while others are excluded from such scrutiny; calls for binding coordination and surveillance of the budgetary discipline of those Member States whose currency is the euro, subject to the control of the Court of Justice on the basis of Article 136 TFEU, in conjunction with Article 121 (6), and under strengthened parliamentary scrutiny in the detailed implementation of Article 121 (3) and (4) TFEUthat stronger parliamentary scrutiny is needed in the detailed implementation of Article 121 (3) and (4) TFEU, concerning closer coordination of economic policies;
Amendment 652 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66
Paragraph 66
66. Recalls that priority should be given to the ordinary legislative and budgetary procedures at EU level by making use, when necessary, of derogations and the establishment of dedicated budget lines; recalls that any other provisions, such as eurozone or enhanced cooperation provisions, should only be used when the aforementioned procedures are not legally or politically possible;