12 Amendments of Eleonora EVI related to 2016/2146(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas petitioners tend to be citizens engaged in safeguarding fundamental rights and in the improvement and future well-being of our societies; whereas the experience of these citizens in regard to the processing of their petitions mayis very influential in determineing their perception of the EU institutions and respect for the right to petition contained in EU law;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas, under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in order to promote good governance and ensure the participation of civil society, the Union’s institutions, bodies, offices and agencies must conduct their work as openly as possible;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the right to petition has to be a key element for a participatory democracy; whereas petitions enable the European Parliament to listen to and help to solve problems affecting its citizens, and in which the right of every citizen to play a direct part in the democratic life of the Union is effectively protected; whereas genuine democratic and participatory governance should ensure full transparency, effective protection of fundamental rights and practical involvement of the public in decision-making processes; whereas petitions enable the European Parliament to listen to and help to solve problems affecting its citizens, while also prompting the other EU institutions and institutions in the Member States to do their utmost in this respect, within their respective spheres of competence; whereas the impact of EU legislation on the daily life of those living in the EU should be assessed through said petitions;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas confidence in the system and in the European project as a whole has been dented by recent events in the United Kingdom, the humanitarian refugee crisis, the very serious social and economic impact of the financial crisiausterity measures, the inability to resolve the financial crisis in a way that guarantees all citizens a free and dignified life and full protection of their fundamental rights, and the rise in xenophobia and racism throughout Europe; whereas the Committee on Petitions has the responsibility and the huge challenge of maintaining dialogue with EU citizens;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the right to petition should enhance the European Parliament’s capacity to react, helping to resolve problems relating mainly to how EU legislation is transposed and applied, as petitions constitute a valuable source of information in detecting deficiencies in how EU legislation is appliedpotential violations and deficiencies in the application of EU legislation by Member States; whereas petitions are a basic tool in the early detection of those Member States lagging behind inlate transposition of EU law by Member States;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the right to petition should enhance the European Parliament’s capacity to react, helping to resolve problems relating mainly to the transposition and implementation of EU legislation, as petitions constitute a useful source of information infor detecting potential violations and breaches in the implementation of EU legislation as well as delays in the transposition of EU law by the Member States;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Confirms that, in the interests of transparency and in a spirit of faithful cooperation between the EU institutions, and pursuant to the Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission, upon request and where required the Commission will provide the European Parliament with a synthesis of the individual cases related to the EU Pilot procedures; recognises the need to ensure full transparency in the disclosure of information concerning EU Pilot procedures and infringement procedures that have already ended; notes that, according to confirmation from the Court of Justice, confidentiality requirements apply to dialogue between the Commission and Member States concerning open EU Pilot cases, and also notes that such information is confidential;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Deplores the strict and restrictive way in which the Commission has interpreted Article 51 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights with its stipulation that ‘the provisions of the [...] Charter are addressed to the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity and to the Member States only when they are implementing Union law; recalls that, owing to the existence of Article 51 of the Charter, the expectations of citizens often go beyond what the Charter’s legal provisions strictly allow for; calls on the European Commission to adopt a new approach that is more consistent with those expec and are often unmet, precisely because of its strict and restrictive interpretations; calls on the European Commission to adopt a new approach that is more consistent with those expectations;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Believes that the organisation of public hearings is an important way of examining problems raised by petitioners; draws attention to the public hearings organised on 11 March 2015, together with the Committee for Agriculture and Rural Development, the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy for the ECI entitled 'Stop Vivisection', on 26 February 2015 with the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety in response to the ECI on ‘Water is a Human Right’, and with the Committee on Legal Affairs for the ECI entitled ‘One of Us’;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) is a new political right for citizens as well as a relevant agenda-setting tool for participatory democracy in the European Union, allowing citizens to plabe directly and active partly involved in projects and processes that affect them, and the potential of which must unquestionably be exploited to the full and significantly enhanced in order to achieve the best results and to encourage as many EU citizens as possible to participate in the further development of the European integration process; likewise considers that it must be one ofamong the EU’s priority objectives to strengthen the democratic legitimaprotection of fundamental rights, of democratic legitimacy and of the transparency of its institutions; reminds the European Commission of the need to follow up on all the recommendations made in the European Parliament resolution of 28 October 2015 on the European Citizens’ Initiative (2014/2257(INI) to ensure thereby that the right to present a European Citizens’ Initiative is properly implemented; reaffirms its commitment to being proactively involved in organising public hearings for successful initiatives; undertakes to give priority, at institutional level, to the effectiveness of this participative process and to ensuring due legislative follow-up;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Deplores the fact that the Commission considers that it is too early to revise Regulation (EU) No 211/2011 of 1 April 2012 which entered into force three years ago; considers that it is necessary to thoroughly evaluate its implementation to identifyresolve all the possible deficiencies identified and propose workable solutions with a view to revising it soonin order to revise it soon, ensuring that the procedures and conditions required for the ECI are genuinely clear, simple, easily applicable and proportionate; welcomes the Commission’s report of 31 March 2015 on the ECI, and the European Ombudsman’s Decision OI/9/2013/TN, and calls on the Commission to ensure, in its revision of this instrument, that all the appropriate legal measures are taken with a view to providing proper follow-up when an ECI is deemed to have been completed successfully; calls on the Commission, in view of the various weaknesses identified, to present a proposal for reform of Regulation (EU) No 211/2011 as soon as possible;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the work done in 2015 by the Committee on Petitions to provide petitioners with a web portal through which they can register, submit a petition, download accompanying documents and add their support to petitions already considered admissible; underscores the updating of the portal to which the petitions registered in 2013, 2014 and 2015 have been uploaded; is pleased to note that the new search, add support features and petitioner confidentiality features have been renovated and upgraded; believes that the uploading of petitions on the web portal should be much faster and more expeditious;