13 Amendments of Liliana RODRIGUES related to 2017/2024(INL)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for communication strategies to be put in place by both the Commission and the national, regional and local authorities to promote ECIs among Union citizens;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Recommends greater investment in raising awareness of ECIs among the public and the media with a view to promoting them as an official EU instrument, encouraging participation as an act of citizenship and overcoming citizens’ distrust with regard to sharing the necessary personal data;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Takes the view that a simpler registration procedure may help to boost citizens’ involvement in the European project;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Recommends, as envisaged in the study ‘Towards a revision of the ECI’, the creation of a support office for citizens’ initiatives in order to reduce the various obstacles faced by citizens’ committees when registering applications, with particular regard to the actual dissemination of ECIs and legal, technical and political support;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Takes the view that, as a democratic tool, ECIs represent a public good that should benefit from a support structure providing legal advice and translation and guidance services; takes the view that members of citizens’ committees should have a legal status that protects them from personal liability and allows more efficient and transparent financial management;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Suggests reconfiguring the online signature collection system with the participation of stakeholders and ICT specialists, making it more accessible, practical and unified so that the process can be speeded up and the loss of signatures avoided; recommends that this reconfiguration should make it possible for Union citizens to sign an ECI in any Member State;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Suggests that authorisation to collect email addresses should figure on the ECI support form so that organisers are able to contact signatories and mobilise them for the debate;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recommends that a provision be added to Regulation (EU) No 211/2011 to the effect that an ECI can call on the Commission to submit proposals for revising the Treaties, so as to strengthen ECIs’ impact on democracy in the Union without going beyond the framework of the Commission’s powers;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recommends that successful ECIs should lead to practical political action, including legislative proposals, in line with citizens’ aspirations to play an active part in the European political agenda;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Takes the view that the Commission should inform citizens’ committees whose applications have not been accepted of the possibility of presenting their initiative to the Committee on Petitions, as a way of continuing the work carried out;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges the Commission to ensure that the requirements for submitting applications are uniform in all the Member States;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the requirement fors and procedures relating to personal data to be simplified and harmonised in order to facilitate support for an ECI, for example by dispensing with the ID or Passport number requirement, as the current approach leads to delays.
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Urges the Commission to allow experts in the field covered by the initiative to attend the public hearing in the European Parliament, as well as members of the citizens’ committee;