18 Amendments of Eleonora EVI related to 2017/2126(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the EU is still facing the worst economic, social and political crisis since its foundation; whereas the solutions proposed by the EU institutions are further exacerbating the economic, democratic and social crisis in the EU;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the Ombudsman started a wide strategic inquiry into how the Commission carries out the appointment and conflict of interest assessment of its special advisers, who often concurrently work for private sector clients and for the EU;
Amendment 12 #
Jb. whereas the Ombudsman inquired about the European Investment Bank's Code of Conduct for Board members, noting that it does not provide for the obligation to file a declaration of interest or a financial interest disclosure;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J c (new)
Recital J c (new)
Jc. whereas the Ombudsman receives yearly many complaints from individuals and organisations about the EU administration's failure to provide public access to documents;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J d (new)
Recital J d (new)
Jd. whereas the Ombudsman found maladministration in that the 2009-2014 Commission had failed to deal with a former Commissioner's breach of the Code of Conduct for Commissioners and had not properly investigated the compatibility of the Commissioner's private sector work contract with the EU Treaty obligations;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J e (new)
Recital J e (new)
Je. whereas former Commission President Mr Barroso was appointed as an adviser and non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International; whereas the Barroso case increased citizens' mistrust towards the Commission regarding its credibility and independence from private financial interests;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Agrees that the current and unprecedented challenges facing the EU, such as the unemployment crisis, economic and social inequalities, discriminations, poverty, the migration crisis and Brexit, compel all institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union, including the Ombudsman, to work harder in strengtheningin a way to ensure the highest levels of social justice, accountability and, transparency and democracy at the European level;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the decreasing number of inquiries concerning the European institutions conducted by the Ombudsman in 2016 (245 in 2016, 261 in 2015); reiterates its call on the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies to respond and react within a reasonable time-frametimely fashion to the critical remarks of the Ombudsman and to improve their compliance rate with the Ombudsman’s recommendations and/or decisions;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. highlights the pivotal role of the Ombudsman to help ensuring that decision-making processes and the administration at EU level are fully transparent and impartial with the view to successfully protect citizens' rights;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Encourages the CommissBelieves that full transparency and access to documents held by the EU institution’s efforts to facilitatemust be the rule in order to ensure that citizens can fully exercise their democratic rights; calls on the Commission to ensure full transparency and access to documents and information, particularly with regard to the EU Pilot procedures in relation to petitions received and to the EU Pilot and infringement procedures that have already ended; encourages the continuation of the Ombudsman’s strategic inquiry into the Commission’s transparency in handling infringement complaints under the EU Pilot procedures, and urges the Ombudsman to be determined and vigilant in continuing to investigate the matter in 2017;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Deeply regrets the accumulated delays in connection with infringement procedure NIF 2014/4231 concerning the abuse of fixed-term contracts in the public sector in Italy in breach of Directive 1999/70/EC; calls on the Ombudsman to step up his efforts on this issue to effectively safeguard citizens' rights;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for greaterfull transparency in the EU’s economic and financial decision- making process, in particular in the area of the banking supervision performed by the European Central Bank; supports, furthermore, the Ombudsman’s recommendations to increase transparency of the European Investment Bank and the Eurogroup and to strengthen their internal ethics rules;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes the Ombudsman’s findings of maladministration with the Code of Conduct for Commissioners; stresses the importance of high moral and ethical standards within the EU administration, and welcomes the Commission’s decision to extend the cooling-off period to two years for former Commissioners and three years for former Commission Presidents; calls on the Commission to guarantee a proactive publication and full transparency regarding the post-term-of- office occupation of former Commissioners and on all related information; takes note of the Commission’s decision to extend the cooling-off period to two years for former Commissioners and three years for former Commission Presidents but strongly believes that stricter ethic rules need to apply throughout the EU institutions, including both the EU politicians and staff, with the aim of securing the respect of the duty of integrity and discretion as well as full independence from private sector; supports the Ombudsman’s recommendations for further revision of the Code in accordance with the Treaty obligations;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. WelcomesTakes note of the Commission’s steps in response to the Ombudsman’s recommendations on how the EU staff rules governing the so-called ‘revolving door’ phenomenon have been implemented, and looks forward to the Ombudsman’s follow-up inquiry assessing how the new rules work in practice;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Ombudsman to continue his work to help ensuring the timely publication of the names of all EU officials involved in revolving doors cases and to guarantee full transparency on all related information;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Supports the Ombudsman’s commitment to improve EU lobbying transparency, and calls on the Commission to fully comply with the Ombudsman’s suggestions for improving the EU Transparency Register and making it a central transparency hub for all EU institutions and agencies; nonetheless stresses that a fully mandatory and legally-binding transparency register must be adopted to ensure full transparency of EU lobbying since an inter-institutional agreement is only binding on the participating institutions and cannot create obligations for third parties;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Ombudsman to ensure that the Commission takes into account the Ombudsman’s proposals and recommendations on the future revision of the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) instrument with the view to guarantee that the procedures and conditions required for the ECI are genuinely clear, simple, easily applicable and proportionate;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls that whistle-blowers are crucial figures in unveiling cases of maladministration, and supports measures bycalls on the EU institutions to effectively improving the current measures with the view to encourage whistle-blowing and protect whistle- blowers, and their families, against retribution; reiterates its call for a directive on whistle-blowing which sets out appropriate channels and procedures for denouncing all forms of maladministration, as well as minimum adequate guarantees and legal safeguards at all levels for the individuals involved;