Activities of Pascal DURAND related to 2018/2112(INI)
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Amendments (9)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas with the exception of the Financial Transaction Tax, all enhanced cooperation initiatives could have been adopted in Council by qualified majority voting if this had been the rule instead of unanimity voting;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas it seems likely, without the use of bridging clauses to move from unanimity to qualified majority voting in the Council and in the absence of a thorough reform of the Treaties, it seems possible in the future that the Member States would need to resort more and more often to the provisions on enhanced cooperation in order to address common problems and to attain common goals;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that the period covering two consecutive Council presidencies should be the maximum time period toit should be concluded that the objectives of cooperation cannot be attained by the Union as a whole, as required by the wording of Article 20 TEU, if during a period covering two consecutive Council presidencies no substantive progress has been made in the Council;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Recommends that a request by Member States wishing to establish enhanced cooperation between themselves should in principle be based on objectives at least as ambitious as those presented by the Commission before it is established that they cannot be achieved within a reasonable time by the Union as a whole;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Finds it necessary to strengthen Parliament’s role in enhanced cooperation; believes that, to this end, standing committees should be entrusted with the task of following each case of enhanced cooperation from adoption through to the end of its period of application, and of examining possible additional areas where this tool could be useful; recommends that each standing committee be free to decide what form of internal organisation would be most suitable for this purpose; advises that, when it comes to the vote, only those MEPs elected in Member States participating in the enhanced cooperation should have the right to vote, but that this vote should ultimately be confirmed by a formal vote in plenary as a whole;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Takes the view that operating expenditure linked to enhanced cooperation should be borne by the participating Member States, and if this cost is borne by the EU budget the non- participating Member States should be reimbursed, unless the Council decides otherwise in accordance with Article 332 (TFEU);
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Suggests that the next revision of the Treaties should explore the possibility of regions or sub-national entities playing a role in enhanced cooperation where this cooperation relates to an area of exclusive competence of the level in question with due respect for national constitutions;