11 Amendments of Gerolf ANNEMANS related to 2017/0219(COD)
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) National political parties and individual members attendance in the European Parliament is both legal and legitimate. Legal as long as they meet the requirements set up in their national legislation, legitimate by the citizens vote. The present legislation aims to ensure the fair allocation of European funding between European political parties based on these two criteria and in full accordance with Article 2 TEU.
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) It is necessary to better ensure a genuine transnational dimension of European political parties and political foundations as regards their acquisition of the specific European legal status through registration. Moreover, in order to strengthen the link between politics at national level and at Union level and to prevent the same national party from artificially creating several European political parties with similar or identical political tendencies, it should be excluded that members of the same national political party are taken into account in relation to different political alliances, for the purpose of the minimum representation requirements for those alliances to be registered as a European party. Therefore, only political parties and no longer individuals should be taken into account for the purpose of these minimum representation requirements.
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) For reasons of transparency and in order to strengthen the scrutiny and the democratic accountability of European political parties and the link between European civil society and the Union institutions, in particular the European Parliament, access to funding from the general budget of the European Union should be made conditional upon the publication by the member parties of the programme and logo of the European political party concerned, as well as information regarding the gender representation among the candidates at the last elections to the European Parliament and among the members of the European Parliament.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b – subparagraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b – subparagraph 1
its member parties must be represented by, in at least one quarter of the Member States, mby Members of the European Parliament, ofr in the national Parliaments, ofr regional pParliaments or ofin the regional assemblies, or
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 17 – paragraph 4
Article 17 – paragraph 4
4. Financial contributions or grants from the general budget of the European Union shall not exceed 905 % of the annual reimbursable expenditure indicated in the budget of a European political party and 95 % of the eligible costs incurred by a European political foundation. European political parties may use any unused part of the Union contribution awarded to cover reimbursable expenditure within the financial year following its award. Amounts still unused after that financial year shall be recovered in accordance with the Financial Regulation.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 18 – paragraph 3 a
Article 18 – paragraph 3 a
3a. A European political party shall include in its application evidence demonstrating that its member parties have continuously published on their websites, during 123 months preceding the moment at which the applications is made, the political programme and logo of the European political party as well as information, in relation to each of the member parties of the European political party, on the gender representation among the candidates at the last elections to the European Parliament and among the Members of the European Parliament.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – indent 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – indent 1
– 520 % shall be distributed in equal shares among the beneficiary European political parties,
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – indent 2
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – indent 2
– 9580 % shall be distributed in proportion to their share of elected members of the European Parliament among the beneficiary European political parties.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 24 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 24 – paragraph 4 a (new)
(4a) In Article 24, the following paragraph 4a is added: “4a. The Authority shall establish in the Annex to the Regulation an exhaustive list of good and bad practices of European political foundations and European political parties in reporting to the Authority. This annex provides a precise definition of the Authority’s requirements to parties and foundations. It has a jurisprudential value in the event of disputes and conflicts of interpretation between the Authority and the parties and foundations.”
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 b (new)
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 26
Article 26
(4b) Article 26 is replaced by the following: “1. All technical support provided by the European Parliament to European political parties and European political foundations shall be based on the principle of equal treatment. It shall be granted on conditions no less favourable than those granted to other external organisations and associations that may be accorded similar facilities and shall be supplied against invoice and payment. 2. The European Parliament shall provide the European political parties and European political foundations with the necessary offices physically located in the European Parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg.”
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014
Article 40 a – paragraph 1
Article 40 a – paragraph 1
By the way of derogation from Article 18(3a) and as regards applications for funding for the financial year 2019, the Authorising Officer of the European Parliament shall, before deciding on an application on funding, request evidence from a European political party demonstrating that its member parties have continuously published on their websites, for a period beginning one month after the entry into force of Regulation (EU, EURATOM) No. XX/2018, the political programme and logo of the European political party as well as information, in relation to each of the member parties of the European political party, on the gender representation among the candidates at the last elections to the European Parliament and among the members of the European Parliament.