Activities of Amjad BASHIR related to 2015/2326(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Monitoring the application of Union law. 2014 Annual Report
Amendments (6)
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the Commission, when drafting and assessing legislation, to take greater account of the burden ithat legislation may impose on SMEs, which create 85% of new jobs; calls therefore upon the Council, the Commission and the Parliament to ensure the 'think-small- first' principle is applied when drafting and amending legislation;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Believes that an Annual Burden Survey would allow legislators to more easily identify where the administrative burden of EU legislation could be reduced with a view to increasing compliance, aiding swift implementation and cutting red-tape; calls on the Commission to introduce Burden Reduction Targets;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Believes that impact assessments should include SME and competitiveness tests in order to ensure that companies and SMEs in particular, are not overburdened by new legislation;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Believes that an external, independent regulatory scrutiny board involving independent experts for the whole policy cycle and common to the three Institutions should be established to supervise their respective impact assessments;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to coordinate their efforts at an earlier stage of the legislative process with a view to ensuring that future EU law can be implemented more effectively; underlines the important role and democratic legitimacy of the Member States in this respect;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls Article 155 TFEU; Calls on the social partners to embrace better regulation tools, to increase the use of impact assessments in their negotiations and to refer agreements proposing legislative action to the Commission's Impact Assessment Board;