8 Amendments of Laura AGEA related to 2018/2105(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas article 10 (3) TEU establishes that 'every citizen shall have the right to participate in the democratic life of the Union' and that 'decisions shall be taken as openly and as closely as possible to the citizen';
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas Article 15 TFEU states that ‘in order to promote good governance and ensure the participation of civil society, the Union's institutions, bodies, offices and agencies shall conduct their work as openly as possible’ and that ‘any citizen of the Union, and any natural or legal person residing or having its registered office in a Member State, shall have a right of access to documents of the Union's institutions, bodies, offices and agencies’;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas Article 41 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, focused on the right to good administration, states inter alia that ‘every person has the right to have his or her affairs handled impartially, fairly and within a reasonable time by the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union’;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas Article 43 of the Charter states that ‘any citizen of the Union and any natural or legal person residing or having its registered office in a Member State has the right to refer to the European Ombudsman cases of maladministration in the activities of the institutions, bodies, offices or agencies of the Union, with the exception of the Court of Justice of the European Union acting in its judicial role’;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas Article 298 (1) TFEU establishes that 'in carrying out their missions, the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union shall have the support of an open, efficient and independent European administration';
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas in March 2017 the Ombudsman opened a strategic inquiry into the openness and accountability of the Council; whereas the Ombudsman found maladministration in the Council’s failure to record the identities of Member States that take a position in a legislative procedure and in the lack of transparency by the Council on public access to its legislative documents; whereas on 17 May 2018 the Ombudsman has sent a Special Report to the European Parliament on her inquiry to improve the accountability and transparency of the Council’s legislative work;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T a (new)
Recital T a (new)
Ta. whereas the Ombudsman conducted an inquiry into how Mr Selmayr, the then Head of Cabinet of the President of the European Commission, was appointed Secretary-General of the Commission; whereas the Ombudsman highlighted that the Commission created an artificial sense of urgency to fill the post of Secretary-General in order to justify not publishing a vacancy notice and organised a Deputy Secretary- General selection procedure, not to fill that role, but rather to make Mr Selmayr Secretary-General in a rapid two-step appointment; whereas in the appointment of Mr. Selmayr the Ombudsman has found four instances of maladministration due to the fact that the Commission did not follow the relevant rules correctly either in letter or in spirit;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Believes that the Commission in the procedure adopted to appoint Mr Selmayr as its new Secretary-General failed to respect the principles of transparency, ethics and rule of law; strongly regrets the Commission’s decision to confirm Mr. Selmayr as its new Secretary-General disregarding the extensive and widespread criticism by EU citizens and the reputational damage caused to the EU as a whole; underlines that Mr Selmayr must resign as Secretary- General of the Commission and calls on the Commission to adopt a new procedure for appointing its Secretary-General ensuring the implementation of the highest standards in terms of transparency, ethics and rule of law;