27 Amendments of Ruža TOMAŠIĆ related to 2015/2041(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas EU institutions are in mostsome respects already ahead of certain national and regional political institutions in terms of their transparency, accountability and integrity;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas, in view of the greaterowing distance between the EU and its citizens, EU institutions must strive for the highest possible standards of transparency, accountability and integrity;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas non-transparent, one-sided lobbying poses a significant threat to policy-making and to the public interest and to the trust of civilians in EU institutions;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the Commission, Parliament and the Council should be obliged to record and disclose all input received from lobbyists/interest representatives on draft policies, laws and amendments as a ‘legislative footprint’; suggests that this legislative footprint should consist of a form annexed to reports, detailing all the lobbyists with whom those in charge of a particular file have met in the process of drawing up each report, clearly indicating which lobbyists had a substantial effect on that file and a second document listing all written input received;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Suggests that the Code of Conduct should be amended so as to make it mandatory for rapporteurs and committee chairs to adopt the same practice of exclusively meeting registered lobbyists and publish information on such meetings online on their official webpage of the Parliament, directly linked to the Transparency Register, and for rapporteurs to publish a legislative footprint;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls upon the European Parliament’s Bureau for creating the possibility for Members of Parliament, who wish to do so, of publishing on their official webpage of the Parliament, which lobbyists they have met;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that an amendment should introduce mandatory monthly updates on and control of lobby expenditures;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Emphasises the principle that European Commission, Council and Parliament should end contacts with unregistered lobbyists;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Insists that registered law firms and consultancies should declare in the lobby register all clients on whose behalf they perform coveredlobbying activities;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Asks the Bureau to restrict access to Parliament’s premises for non-registered organisations or individuals by making all visitors to its premises sign a declaration that they are not lobbyists falling within the scope of the register or otherwise declare their registration; considers that visitors’ groups should be excepted from this;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls for control and sanctions in case the information of registrants is incorrect;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that at least 25 % of declarations should be checked each year;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that the members of the Advisory Committee chosen from among Members of the European Parliament should be complemented by a majority of externally chosen members who must be qualified independent experts in the field of ethics regulation and should be drawn from an open call and include members of civil society;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Believes that the Advisory Committee should check the compliance of MEPs with the Code of Conduct, including all the declarations of financial interests and assessing the post term-of office activities of MEPs;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Believes that not only the President should be able to report possible breaches of the Code of Conduct, including the declaration of financial interests and an assessment of the post term-of-office activities, to the Advisory Committee, but also Members of the Parliament, as well as members of civil society;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Believes that the mandate of the Advisory Committee should be extended by including in the annual report recommendations for improving the compliance of Members of Parliament with the Code of Conduct, inter alia, by clarifying its contents, whenever necessary;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that the Rules of Procedure should be amended with regard to Members’ declarations of financial interests to task the Advisory Committee and the supportive administration with factual checks in sampleof all declarations and to empower them to ask for proof where necessary;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Believes that Article 3 of the Code of Conduct for Members should be rephrased to include a clear ban on Members holding side jobs or other paid work that could lead to a conflict of interest;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Believes that the Commission should pro-actively disclose documents regarding the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Ethical Committee on post-term-of-office jobs of former Commissioners, redacting the commercial or personal information in accordance with Regulation 1049/2001;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Estimates that the Code of Conduct for Commissioners should include a clearer task description of the Ad Hoc Ethical Committee, and include the requirement that the members of the Committee are independent experts;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Recalls in this regard, the position adopted by the Parliament on 12 June 2013 concerning the revision of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001;
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Calls on the institutions involved to ensure that trialogues will be transparent and, to that end, to allow meetings to be held in public and webstreamed;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Rejects the position taken by the Council in its letter to the Ombudsman in regard to the own-initiative inquiry that the organisation of trialogues is a political responsibility and falls outside the Ombudsman’s mandate;
Amendment 405 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41 a. Transparency and accountability in the domain of public spending Believes that the data on budget and spending within the EU should be transparent and accountable through publication, including at the level of Member States in regard to shared management;
Amendment 431 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
Amendment 447 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)
Paragraph 46 a (new)
46 a. Calls upon the Commission to examine in detail why cases of suspected fraud which OLAF brought to the attention of Member States, did not lead to convictions by national authorities and how the quality of OLAF can be strengthened in order to effectively combat offences against the Union's financial interests;