Activities of Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN related to 2015/2326(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on monitoring the application of Union law: 2014 Annual Report PDF (346 KB) DOC (75 KB)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement on better law-making between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission,
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Maintains that the citizens of the Union may feel confident about Union law and can benefit effectively from its correct application in the Member States only if Union law is established in full compliance with the principle of conferral and the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the Commission invokes Article 4(3) TEU and the principle of sincere cooperation between the Union and Member States in order to enforce its obligation to exercise discretion in relation to Member States during EU Pilot procedures;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas EU Pilot procedures are intended to make for closer and more coherent cooperation between the Commission and Member States so as to remedy breaches of EU law at an early stage in order, wherever possible, to avert the need to resort to formal infringement proceedings;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that Parliament should play a more structuredstronger role in the analysis of how accession countries and countries with association agreements with the European Union comply with EU law;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission’s 32nd ‘Annual Report on Monitoring the Application of EU Law’, and notes that environment, transport, and internal market and services were the policy areas in 2013 in which most infringement cases remained open in 2014; also notes that in 2014 environment, health, and consumers, and mobility and transport were again the policy areas in which the highest numbers of new infringement proceedings were instituted;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that according to the Annual report, ‘the number of formal infringement procedures has decreased in the last five years’, and that, according to the Commission, this reflects the effectiveness of the structured dialogue with Member States via EU Pilot; points out, however, that the Commission does not carry out any EU Pilot procedures when directives have been transposed late;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers, therefore, that the decrease in recent years and the decrease expected to occur in coming years are due to the continuing fall in the number of new Commission legislative proposals;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes and reiterates that the increase in the number of new EU Pilot files during the period under examination, and the decrease in the number of open infringement cases, show that the EU Pilot system has proved its worth; reiterates, however, that the enforcement of EU law is neither sufficiently transparent nor subject to any real control by the complainants and the interested parties, and regrets that, despite its repeated requests, Parliament still has inadequate access to information about the EU Pilot procedure and pending cases;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points out that sincere cooperation between the Commission and Parliament is an obligation incumbent on them both; calls, therefore, for the Framework Agreement on Relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission to be revised so as to enable information about EU Pilot procedures to be supplied in the form of a (confidential) document to the parliamentary committee responsible for the interpretation and application of Union law;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Notes that in future, should Member States transposing directives into national law decide to add elements having no connection with the Union law concerned, such additions will be made visible either in the transposition act or acts or by means of the necessary documents, in order to ensure that the measures in question will be clearly communicated to the public; points out, however, that this in no way affects the Member States’ prerogative of adopting higher social and environmental standards at national level than those agreed at EU level: