5 Amendments of Demetris PAPADAKIS related to 2014/2257(INI)
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Reports that to date only three initiatives managed to collect one million signatures in at least seven Member States, the first ever initiative was "Right2Water" and the most recent one is "Stop Vivisection ECI"; Regrets that the first two initiatives were not followed-up by a concrete legislative proposal and invites the Commission to adopt more concrete measures with the next successful initiatives;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Expresses its concern about the low percentage of successful initiatives and the dramatic decrease in the number of new initiatives; stresses that the European institutions and the Member States must take all necessary steps to promote the ECI and to foster citizens’ confidence in this tool; believes that if revised the instrument still has the potential to engage the public and to promote dialogue among citizens and between citizens and EU institutions; welcomes the fact that some ECIs have managed to have an impact at local level;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reports that the general public's awareness and knowledge of the ECI among citizens is very low; Regrets the lack of clear information on the ECI instrument at the early stages, which led to a general misconception about its nature and generated some frustration when the first ECIs were rejected by the Commission; recalls that the instrument should be simple, clear and user-friendly;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Welcomes the European Economic and Social Committee's (EESC) new linguistic service for providing ECI organisers with translation of the ECI submission text in all EU languages for all validated ECIs and calls on the European Commission to propose a long term solution to provide the existing translation services in the institutions to the organisers of ECI initiatives so that translations of ECI texts are provided into all official languages and thus remove one major difficulty for citizens when organising cross-border ECI campaign in all Member States;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Point 12
Point 12
12. Recalls that hearings concerning successful ECIs are currently organised by the competent committee, according to the subject of the ECI, with the Committee on Petitions associated; proposes that the Committee on Petitions should take over the role of organising hearings, as a neutral forum with the greatest experience in dealing with citizens., after which the relevant Committee should issue an own initiative report followed by a discussion and vote on each successful ECI in full plenum; invites the European Parliament to further explore the possibilities of organising hearings for initiatives that haven't reached the one million signatures but have more than half of the required signatures;