Activities of Barbara WEILER related to 2011/2029(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on better legislation, subsidiarity and proportionality and smart regulation
Amendments (8)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on all EU institutions to abide by Article 153, paragraph 2b of the TFEU which requires them to avoid passing laws which impose administrative, financial and legal constraints which hold back the creation and development of SMEs; stresses that in this respect particular importance attaches to the drafting stage of legislative proposals and that accordingly appropriate resources should be made available there, including to the European Parliament; takes the view that this could improve the legislative process;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Endorses the strategic approach adopted by the Commission in its communication on Smart Regulation in the European Union, which places smart regulation at the centre of the entire process of policy formulation, from the drafting of a legal act to implementation, enforcement, assessment and revision;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Welcomes the Commission’s decision to extend the time limit for public consultation from eight to 12 months; considers extensive involvement of all parties concerned to be a building block of better legislation;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on all Parliamentary Committees to also apply an SME test on the legislative reports, oncbefore they have beenare voted upon by the respective Committee and are being submitted to the plenary for approval, and to add the results of such a test to the documents to be submitted to the plenary;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to consider the introduction of a "one-in, one-out" rule, whereby no new proposal is brought forward, without an existing legislative instrument in a similar policy area being withdrawn or simplified;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Draws attention to its resolution on Governance and Partnership in the Single Market and once again makes it clear that correlation tables help to improve the implementation of internal market measures and considerably simplify their enforcement; calls on the Member States, in the interests of greater transparency, finally to accept correlation tables for the implementation of legal provisions and thus to contribute to better legislation;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. AcknowledgStresses the importance of an independent Impact Assessment for the proper implementation, application and enforcement of legislative measures and calls on all Parliamentary Committees to give full consideration to these Impact Assessments.;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to make certain that Impact Assessments examine, in a balanced manthe potential effects of the proposed legislation on the internal market and consumers are examinerd, the potential effects of the proposed legislation for both the busias well as their economic, social and environmental impact; stresses that, to this end, all parties concerned, including SMEs, consumers’ organisations and – if legal provisions will have an impact on the labour market – the social partnesrs community and society as a wholemust be systematically consulted;