15 Amendments of Eleonora EVI related to 2020/2125(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
Citation 2
— having regard to Articles 15, 24, third paragraph, 228 and 22898, first paragraph of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the Court of Justice of the European Union has stipulated that the principles of publicity and transparency are inherent to the EU legislative process and has given clear guidance on this issue, such as in its judgement of 22 March 2018 on case T-540/15;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas the Ombudsman launched an inquiry on the decision of the European Banking Authority (EBA), announced publicly on 17 September 2019, to allow its Executive Director to become Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), a lobby organisation for the financial industry; whereas the Ombudsman found maladministration as EBA failed to mitigate the risks of conflicts of interest when it approved such a job move and on the fact that EBA continued to give access to its outgoing Executive Director to confidential information;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. whereas the Ombudsman launched an inquiry following a compliant concerning a corporate sponsorship of the Presidency of the Council of the EU; whereas the Ombudsman noted that the use of sponsorship by the Presidency entails reputational risks for the EU as a whole and recommended the Council to issue guidance to Member States on the issue of sponsorship of the Presidency in order to mitigate the reputational risks to the EU;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the paramount importance of the European full transparency of the EU’s decision- making processes and administiturations maintaining the highest possible level of transparency, in order ensuring a full and effective protection of citizens’ rights; underlines the need to enable citizens to take an more active and direct part in decision-making and to strengthen their trust in and feeling of proximity to the institutions by guaranteeing they can follow the decision-making process at the EU institutions in detail and have access to all related information in order to fully exercise their democratic rights;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Highlights that the lack of transparency of the EU legislative process increases citizens’ distrust and weaken the legitimacy of the decision-making process as a whole;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges the European Ombudsman to continue promoting greater transparency in legislative discussions in the preparatory bodies of the Council of the European Union, as regards both public access to its legislative documents and its decision- making procesfull public access to documents held by the EU institutions and full transparency in legislative discussions and decision-making process at EU level, with a particular focus for the Council of the European Union, including its preparatory bodies, so that itsall deliberations can be more readifully understood;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Considers the lack of transparency in interinstitutional negotiations between the co-legislators incompatible with democratic principles; reiterates its call for the publication of all trilogue documents;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Council to follow the European Ombudsman’s recommendations; calls for the systematic identification of Member State governments which set out positions in the preparatory bodie and revise its confidentiality policy in order to ensure full transparency in its work, including making directly and proactively accessible to the public its legislative documents while the legislative process is ongoing; calls for the transparent and systematic identification of Member State governments' positions in the EU legislative process, including in the Council preparatory bodies, as co- legislators must be held accountable to the public for their actions;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Regrets the practice of Member States holding the Presidency of the Council to accept corporate sponsorship; believes that such a practice must be prevented in order to preserve the reputation and integrity of the Council and of the EU as a whole;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Applauds the European Ombudsman’s repeated efforts to combat conflicts of interest, approves the publication, following an inquiry, of the minutes of meetings held between lobbyists and the President of the European Council, and; calls for the conclusadoption of a fair and ambitious interinstitutional agreemenlegislative act on the Transparency Register; stresses, howev in order, the need to adopt in the longer term a decision establisho make it fully mandatory and legally-binding for all EU institutions and agencies and interest representatives, thereby ensuring a fully mandatory register for transparency of lobbyistsng;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Points out that the EU public administration has many rulemust improve their rules and standards designed to prevent conflicts of interest and that the European Ombudsman’s task is to ensure that they areguarantee the respect of the duty of discretion and integrity; calls on the European Ombudsman to promote the highest ethical rules and standards throughout the EU institutions, agencies and bodies ensuring that they are fully and consistently implemented, and; calls for the evaluation of the declarations of interests submitted by Commissioners-designate to be carried out independently by appropriate means; underlines the need to revise the current rules and practices in order to strengthen integrity requirements for Commissioners both during and after their mandates and that Commissioners post term of office notification periods must be increased;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Underlines the urgent need for the existing Code of Good Administrative Behaviour to be improved and upgraded by adopting a binding regulation on the matter;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Commends the Ombudsman's activities on revolving doors cases which led, inter alia, EBA to revise its policy to assess post-employment restrictions and prohibitions for staff as well as improving its procedures to suspend immediately access to confidential information for staff known to be moving to another job; calls on the Ombudsman to continue her efforts to ensure that all EU institutions and agencies introduce effective rules aimed at preventing revolving doors cases and any possible conflict of interests;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to propose a comprehensive, ambitious and long-term European Disability Strategy for the post-2020 period in order to make possible, inter alia, a full and consistent implementation of the UNCRPD;