Activities of Pascal DURAND related to 2016/2018(INI)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Takes the view that the implementation of an agreement on 'better law-making should first and foremost stress the need to promote and implement at EU level public policies oriented towards social and environmental justice; considers that continuous-assessment mechanisms operating during the legislative procedure are likely to increase the bureaucracy and inertia of European institutions rather than improve the quality of European legislation;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the new IIA’s provisions on impact assessments, notably the principle that theyUnderlines that impact assessments may inform but never be a substitute for political decisions or cause undue delays to the legislative process; recalls that the Commission, in the Small Business Act, made a commitment to implementing the ‘think small first’ principle in its policymaking, and that this includes the SME test to assess the impact of forthcoming legislation and administrative initiatives on SMEs27 ; recalls that in its decision of 9 March 2016 on the new IIA Parliament stated that the wording of the new IIA does not sufficiently commit the three Institutions to include SME and competitiveness tests in their impact assessments28 ; underlines that, throughout the legislative procedure and in all assessments of the impact of proposed legislation, particular attention must be paid to the potential impacts on those who have least opportunity to present their concerns to decision takers, including SMEs and others who do not have the advantage of easy access to the Institutions; stresses the importance of taking into account and paying attention to the needs of SMEs at all stages of the legislative cycle and expresses satisfaction that the Commission’s Better Regulation Guidelines prescribe that potential impacts on SMEs and competitiveness should be considered and reported systematically in all impact assessments; encourages the Commission to consider how the impact on SMEs can be taken into account even better, including in connection with the European added value of a proposal, and intends to follow this issue closely in the years to come; _________________ 27 See Parliament’s resolution of 27 November 2014 on the revision of the Commission’s impact assessment guidelines and the role of the SME test (OJ C 289, 9.8.2016, p. 53), paragraph 16. 28 See Parliament’s resolution of 9 March 2016 on the conclusion of an Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2016)0081), paragraph 4.
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Is very concerned that the Council is trying almost systematically to replace delegated acts with either implementing acts or with detailed provisions in the legislative act itself; finds it particularly unacceptable that the Council is trying to use the post-Lisbon alignment to replace the regulatory procedure with scrutiny with implementing acts or with detailed provisions in the legislative act itself, instead of delegated acts;
Amendment 109 #
41. Deplores the fact that paragraphs 33 and 34 of the new IIA have not yet led to an improvement in the information flow from the Council, notably since there seems to be a general lack of information on the issues raised by the Member States within the Council and no systematic approach to facilitate the mutual exchange of views and information; notes with concern that the information flow usually varies greatly from Presidency to Presidency and varies between services of the Council’s General Secretariat; underlines the asymmetrical access to information between the co-legislators since the Council can attend parliamentary committee meetings when Parliament representatives are not invited to attend Council's working groups meetings;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. WelcomNotes the Commission’s first annual burden survey undertaken in the context of simplification of EU legislation, for which it carried out a Flash Eurobarometer survey on business perceptions of regulation, interviewing over 10 000 businesses across the 28 Member States, mainly SMEs and reflecting the distribution of business in the EU; draws attention to the findings of the survey, which confirm that the focus on cutting unnecessary costs remains appropriate and suggest that there is a complex interplay of different factors that influence the perception of businesses, which may also be caused by variations in national administrative and legal set ups concerning the implementation of legislationis nevertheless concerned that the concept of Annual Burden Survey may give rise to the assumption that regulation would by their nature result in excessive administrative burdens; stresses that this exercise should also take into account the social and environmental benefits of the rules; points out that gold plating and even inaccurate media coverage can also affect such perception; agrees with the Commission that the only way to identify concretely what can actually be simplified, streamlined or eliminated is to seek views from all stakeholders on specific pieces of legislation or various pieces of legislation that apply to a particular sector; calls on the Commission to refine the annual burden survey, on the basis of the lessons learnt from the first edition, to apply transparent and verifiable data collection methods, to pay particular regard to SMEs’ needs, and to include both actual and perceived burdens, and to introduce a comparison with the "cost of non-Europe";