Activities of Ramona STRUGARIU related to 2020/2141(DEC)
Plenary speeches (1)
2019 Discharge (debate)
Amendments (18)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls that Rule 11 of the Rules of Procedure has introduced an obligation for rapporteurs, shadow rapporteurs and committee chairs to publish information on meetings held with interest representatives in the context of their reports; notes with satisfaction that, since the start of the new legislature, the necessary infrastructure has been available on Parliament’s website to allow Members to publish scheduled meetings with interested representatives in order to improve transparency; stresses, however, that the tool for publication of meetings needs further improvement in order to fulfil its function to make Parliament more open, transparent, and accountable to citizens;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Notes that 324 out of the 705 of current Members had published at least one meeting with an interest representative by 01 December 2020 on Parliament’s website; urges Parliament to take appropriate measures to ensure that all rapporteurs, shadow rapporteurs and committee chairs comply with the obligation to publish their lobby meetings, including by enhancing its communication towards Members about the obligation of publishing such information and to further encourage the publication of lobby meetings on Parliament’s website in all other cases as well;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 26 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Regrets the difficulties for Members to recruit swiftly their assistants at the beginning of the term due to DG Pers' increased activity; calls for Parliament's administration teams responsible for the recruitment of APAs to be reinforced at the beginning of each new mandate, for the time necessary to enable Members to recruit their assistants and to provide comprehensive training beforehand and until the high work load has been completed;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Recalls nevertheless that the turnout remained too low in certain countries; considers that this type of communication campaign should be ongoing, with a particular focus on those countries;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71 a (new)
Paragraph 71 a (new)
71 a. Asks its administration to create a space on Parliament’s website where the plenary voting record of each Member would be available and the repartition of votes per political groups and nationality of Members visible and comparable; Invites the relevant services to study the feasibility and test the visualisation of the most recent signed amendments in committees and plenary of volunteering Members on their personal Parliament website page;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 13
Subheading 13
Members, Staff, Accredited Parliamentary Assistants and Local Assistants
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79
Paragraph 79
79. Draws attention to the 6% staff reduction target, that in 2019 required Parliament to eliminate 59 posts from its administration establishment plan; acknowledges the simultaneous increase in the number of contractual agents; is concerned by the negative effects of this significant reduction on Parliament’s performance, both in the short and long term; calls for the reassessment of the staffing situation, while also ensuring responsible budgetary management and undertaking savings where appropriate; believes that further savings could be envisaged;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79 a (new)
Paragraph 79 a (new)
79 a. Stresses that Parliament’s establishment plans have remained relatively stable since 2012, while at the same time increasing the number of temporary staff ; highlights the number of contract staff employed by the European Parliament has increased by 121% between 2012 and 2018 to compensate for the replacement of permanent staff, with a similar trend in 2019; notes the Court’s annual reports on the implementation of the Union budget for 2019 did not scrutinise whether these replacements have resulted from transfers of employees based in Strasbourg or Luxembourg to Brussels; calls on the Parliament’s human resources unit to share information on staff relocation at Parliament's three places of work since 2012, either as part of the annual discharge procedure or by sharing relevant information to the Court for inclusion in the next annual reports on budget implementation;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80 a (new)
Paragraph 80 a (new)
80 a. Asks the Secretary-General to find a solution for the fact that APAs' salaries can exclusively go to Belgian bank accounts which runs counter to the idea of a single monetary and payments union;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 82 a (new)
Paragraph 82 a (new)
82 a. Deplores the fact that no system exists for Members who are on maternity leave or on long-term sick leave to temporarily continue their work remotely; is of the opinion that this impossibility is fundamentally at odds with core values of the Union because it sends the signal that a vote on a female candidate may entail temporary non-representation; therefore, building on the experience accumulated during the Covid-19 pandemic, calls on the development of a hybrid working method which allows for Members on maternity leave or long-term sick leave to participate on meetings and vote online if they wish do so;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 83
Paragraph 83
83. Supports the launch of an awareness raising campaign in 2019 to promote a zero-tolerance policy on harassment in the workplace; recognises Parliament’s zero tolerance policy towards harassment at any and all levels including Members, staff and APAs; notes that following the 2019 elections, all Members were required to sign a declaration confirming their commitment to complying with the code of appropriate behaviour incorporated in Parliament's Rules of Procedure in January 2019; however, regrets that 10 new harassment cases were opened in 2019 out of which 4 cases concerned sexual harassment; calls for mandatory trainings for Member and staff;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 83 a (new)
Paragraph 83 a (new)
83 a. Is of the opinion that Parliament should provide basic accommodations for breastfeeding mothers at work, particularly including time and a private space that is not a bathroom;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92 a (new)
Paragraph 92 a (new)
92 a. welcomes that 100% of all A4 paper used in Parliament's offices is recycled and welcomes the significant decrease of paper purchase in 2019 compared to 2018; welcomes the Parliament's efforts to increase the number of paperless meetings and calls for more training to be ofered to all Members, staff and APAs about the paperless tools which have been created to enable less documents to be printed and for further communication campaigns;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92 b (new)
Paragraph 92 b (new)
92 b. Calls for further ambitious actions to be undertaken swiftly and believes that the ultimate goal should be a Parliament free of single-use plastic;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 95 a (new)
Paragraph 95 a (new)
95 a. Is concerned by the fact that out of the 340 persons that Parliament’s vehicle fleet has a capacity to theoretically carry on the way to Strasbourg per plenary session, only 116 Members and APAs made use of this opportunity in 2019, which corresponds to an occupation rate of less than 3 percent; urges the Secretary-General to introduce a user- friendly on-line booking system and allow this option of travel to Strasbourg to political groups’ and all other staff, too; further requests Parliament to lift the obligation on APAs to use the fleet to go from Brussels to Strasbourg only when accompanied by their Member;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 98 a (new)
Paragraph 98 a (new)
98 a. Welcomes the significant increase of use of bicycles in Brussels in 2019 compared to 2018;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 109
Paragraph 109
109. Recalls the decision that all Members shallould have a separate bank account to receive the general expenditure allowance; welcomes Parliament’s strict implementation of this obligation which resulted in a 100% compliance rate;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 111 a (new)
Paragraph 111 a (new)
111 a. Is of the opinion that the current non-exhaustive list of expenditure is not sufficiently clear and leaves therefore loopholes and room for misinterpretation, calls on the Bureau to establish an exhaustive list of expenditure or at least establish a negative list of expenditure;