12 Amendments of Eleonora EVI related to 2018/2096(INI)
Amendment 14 #
H. whereas following the inquiry, the Ombudsman found that the lack of transparency by the Council on public access to its legislative documents and the Council’s current practices with regard to transparency of its decision-making process constitute maladministration;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the Court of Justice has established that the principles of publicity and transparency are inherent to the EU legislative process, and that the effectiveness and integrity of the legislative process cannot undermine the principles of publicity and transparency which underlie that process1a; __________________ 1a Judgment of the General Court of 22 March 2018 — De Capitani v Parliament (Case T-540/15), par. 81 and 83
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is deeply convinced that a fully democratic and transparent decision- making at the European level is indispensable to increase citizens’ trust in the European project and the EU institutions, especially in the run-up to the European elections in May 2019, and is therefore determined to defend and enhance European democracy;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Shares the view of the Ombudsman that ensuring that citizens are able to followunderstand and follow in detail the progress of legislation is a legal requirement under the Treaties;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises that full transparency at all stages of the legislative process, including in the informal negotiations between the three main EU institutions (‘trilogues’), is essential to enable citizens, media, and stakeholders to hold their elected representatives and governments accountable;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that a high degree offull transparency acts as a safeguard against the emergence of speculation, fake news and conspiracy theories;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the European Parliament represents the interests of European citizens in a fullyn open and transparent manner, and welcomes the substantial progress made by the Commission; calls on the Commission to make substantial progress in improving its transparency standards ensuring full transparency, inter alia, in the conduct of international negotiations and its interactions with interest representatives; notes that the Council does not yet follow comparable(and the European Council) do not yet ensure full transparency standards;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Deplores the fact that, unlike committee meetings in the European Parliament, meetings of the preparatory bodies of the Council as well as the majority of debates in the Council are held in camera; proposbelieves that citizens, media and stakeholders should havemust have full access by appropriate means to the meetings of the Council and its preparatory bodies, including via webstreaming, in order to make all stages of the legislative process in both components of the European legislature fully transparent and accessible;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the paramount importance of guaranteeing full transparency and full public access to the documents held by the EU institutions; highlights the fact that EU legislation on access to documents is seriously outdated; strongly regrets that the Council is blocking the revision of Regulation (EC) No. 1049/2001;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. NotDeplores that the Council does not proactively publish most documents related to legislative files, and that available information is presentedpreventing citizens also from knowing in real time which documents actually exist, thus limiting citizens’ exercise of their right to request public access to documents; regrets that available information on legislative documents is presented by the Council in a register which is incomplete and not user- friendly; welcomes in this regard the progress made by the Commission, Parliament and the Council in the creation of a joint database for legislative fileunderlines that the Commission, Parliament and the Council must swiftly complete all necessary steps to adopt the joint database for legislative files with a view to ensuring full transparency and a simplified and full public access to all related information and documents;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. DStresses that the positions of the Member States within the Council during the EU legislative process must be recorded and made a matter of public knowledge in a timely and accessible manner; deems it unacceptable that the positions taken in the preparatory bodies of the Council by individual Member States are neither published nor systematically recorded, making it impossible for citizens, media and stakeholders to effectively scrutinise the behaviour of their elected governments; underlines that in a system based on the principle of democratic legitimacy, co-legislators must be held accountable to the public for their actions;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Considers it incompatible with democratic principles that,the lack of transparency in interinstitutional negotiations between the co-legislators, the lack of transparency in the Council leads to an imbalance with regard to available information and thus to a structural advantage of the Council over the European Parliament; reiterates its call for the improvement of the exchange of documents and information between Parliament and the Council and for access to be granted to representativ incompatible with democratic principles; reiterates its call for the publication of all trilogue documents; stresses that the lack of transparency about the EU legislative process increases citizens’ distrust, with regard not only to the lawfulness of Parliament as observers to meetings of the Council and its bodies, an isolated act, but also to the legitimacy of the decision-making particular in the case of legislation;rocess as a whole