16 Amendments of Barbara SPINELLI related to 2015/2041(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Union ‘shall, in accordance with the principle of transparency, under Recital 13 to the Treaty on European Union, the second paragraph of Article 1, Article 9 and Article 10(3) TEU, the Union is to take decisions as closely as possible to the citizen and must observe the principle of the equality of its citizens, who shallare to receive equal attention from its institutions’ (Article 9 of the Treaty on European Union), and whereas ‘every citizen shall have the right to participate in the democratic life of the Union’ and ‘decisions shall be taken as openly and as closely as possible to the citizen’ (Article 10(3));
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas, in accordance with the requirement of transparency laid down in Article 15(3) TFEU in conjunction with the Article 42 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the settled case- law of the Court of Justice of the EU, all citizens of the Union have the right of access to documents of the Union's institutions, bodies and other agencies1a; __________________ 1aCf. COJEU, Joined Cases C-514/07 P, C-528/07 P and C-532/07 P
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the Commission, Parliament and the Council should record and disclose all input received from lobbyists/interest representatives on draft policies, laws and amendments as a ‘legislative footprint’; suggests that, in the context of the work of the institutions and other agencies of the EU, this legislative footprint should consist of a form annexed to reporlegislative documents, detailing all the lobbyists with whom those in charge of a particular file have met in the process of drawing up each report and a second document listing all written input received during a legislative procedure;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to expand and improve its existing initiative as laid out in its decision of 25 November 2014 on the publication of information on meetings held between Members of the Commission and organisations or self-employed individuals; considers that the recording of meeting datatakes the view that persons at the EU institutions and other agencies who are involved in legislative procedures should as a general rule only meet lobbyists and representatives of interest groups who are recorded in the transparency register; considers at the same time that the requirement which already exists in the Commission by decision of 25 November 2014 to record information about such meetings should be expanded to include everyone involved in the EU’s policy-making process; at the EU's institutions and other agencies;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that, among the Members of the European Parliament, those appointed rapporteur for legislative reports or committee chair have a special responsibility to be transparent about their contacts with lobbyists in view of their role in EU legislation;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Suggests that the Code of Conduct should be amended so as to make it mandatory for rapporteurs responsible for legislative reports and committee chairs to adopt the same practice of exclusively meeting registered lobbyists and publish information on such meetings online and for rapporteurs toresponsible for legislative reports to compile and publish a legislative footprint;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates its longstanding call to back up the EU lobby register with a legal act to close all loopholes and achieve a fullycomprehensive and mandatory register for all lobbyists; considers that the proposal for this legal act could take into account the progress achieved by changes in the inter- institutional agreement and Parliament’s Code of Conduct; Reminds the Commission of Parliament's call, in its resolution P7_TA(2014)0376 of 15 April 2014, for an appropriate legislative proposal on a mandatory transparency register to be submitted pursuant to Article 352 TFEU by the end of 2016;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Reiterates its call to the Council to join the lobby register as soon as possible; European Council, the Council of the European Union and the institutions, bodies and agencies of the European Union which have not so far been covered to join the lobby register as soon as possible or at least, during a transitional phase during which a uniform common register is being developed for all EU institutions and agencies, to take this system as a reference system in order for its own cooperation with those organisations, independent individuals and third parties that concern themselves with the formulation and implementation of EU policies to cast them in the role of private persons performing public functions on behalf of the Union;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Asks the Bureau without delay to commission a technical and organisational solution which will make it possible to restrict access to Parliament’s premises for non-registered organisations orand individuals by making all visitors to its premises sign a declaration that they are not lobbyistwho perform tasks falling within the scope of the register or otherwise declare their registration;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Believes it to be necessary, as a matter of urgency, to introduce a proper monitoring system, with adequate staffing and technical resources, for submitted information in order to ensure that the information that registrantered organisations and individuals provide is meaningful, accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that at least 5 %one quarter of declarations should be checked each year;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Believes that Article 3 of the Code of Conduct for Members should be rephrased to include a clear ban on Members holding side jobs or other paid work that could lead to a conflict of interestcarrying out official duties or paid work in organisations that lobby the EU institutions and other European bodies, or accepting any form of preferential treatment, advantages or payments from such organisations or entering into contractual relationships with them to finance or indirectly employ people as the Member’s staff;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Believes that Members should have the remuneration paid to them by Parliament reduced by half of what they earn, whether as employees or self-employed persons, from any regular, irregular or one-off outside activity in parallel to their office as Members of the European Parliament;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Takes the view that consideration should be given to a two-year cooling-off period before and after appointment when selecting external and ad hoc numbers for the planned Regulatory Scrutiny Board in the context of better lawmaking;
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Deems it exemplary that Parliament lists all available documents as part of an online register and calls on the Commission and the Council to follow this example with respect to all their documents and to open negotiations on the introduction of a joint online register;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Believes that Parliament’s right of access to the documents of other EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies should never be regarded as weaker than that of individual citizens, under Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001;