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Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that Member States sharing the euro need to further strengthen compliance with the Treaty, stability, efficiency and democratic accountability;

2013/02/26
Committee: ECON

Werner LANGEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that ~~part of the efforts ma~~the decisions intended to mitigate the crisis, such as the adoption of the Six-Pack and the creation of the ESM, only concern the euro area Member States;

2013/02/26
Committee: ECON

Werner LANGEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes the on-going creation of a single supervisory mechanism covering the euro area and open to all other EU Member States; regards as extremely risky and legally questionable, however, the fact that ultimate responsibility for banking supervision is to lie solely with the ECB;

2013/02/26
Committee: ECON

Werner LANGEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Points out that some Member States’ ~~economic policies are constrained by the Troïka, which is not held properly~~budget and fiscal policies have had to be constrained by the Troïka and that, in this connection, there is no accountableility;

2013/02/26
Committee: ECON

Werner LANGEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

~~5. Welcomes the Commission’s ‘Blueprint’; calls on the Commission to make legislative proposals under codecision for its implementation without delay;~~deleted

2013/02/26
Committee: ECON

Werner LANGEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Points out that there must be legal certainty with regard to the concept of ‘contractual agreements’ applicable only to individual Member States as referred to in the European Council conclusions of December 2012 ~~risks creating legal uncertainty~~;

2013/02/26
Committee: ECON

Werner LANGEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Considers that the ~~work~~ re must be legal certainty with regard to the question of own resources ~~should be accelerated, as should that on labour mobility and a euro area budget, to make it an optimal currency~~, which must be taken forward with a view to a responsible budget for the euro area;

2013/02/26
Committee: ECON

Werner LANGEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Stresses that Article 3.4 TEU states ‘the Union shall establish an economic and monetary union whose currency is the euro’, and Protocol 14 on the Eurogroup foresees ‘the need to lay down special provisions for enhanced dialogue between the Member States whose currency is the euro, pending the euro becoming the currency of all Member States’; ~~if this supposedly transitory situation is to last,~~considers that appropriate accountability for the current euro area and the Member States that committed to join must be developed ~~inside~~with the involvement, in a leading role, of the European Parliament.

2013/02/26
Committee: ECON

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Takes the view that the coordination of economic, employment and social policies belongs to the category of shared competences, which according to Article 4(1) TFEU comprises all the areas which are not included into the exhaustive lists of exclusive or supporting competences;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Is of the opinion that, as a consequence, the specificity of measures adopted under Article 136 TFEU does not relate only to the fact that those measures are specific to Member States whose currency is the euro, but also implies that they can have greater binding force;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Considers that when the use of the bridging clause is not possible, as for instance in the case of the adoption of the economic policy and employment guidelines or the Annual Growth Survey, the possibility of concluding interinstitutional agreements of a binding nature should be fully made use of;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Disagrees with ‘contractualisation’ of the relationship between the Union and the Member States, and reiterates that the lack of Union competences and of Union powers can be overcome by using the appropriate procedures or, in absence of an appropriate legal basis, by amending the Treaties;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. Is of the opinion that the European Stability Mechanism as a mechanism covering Member States whose currency is the euro can be the financial backstop of the SRM, which could cover more Member States than the ESM;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39

39. Reiterates its call for the presentation of a legislative proposal to establish a competitiveness and convergence instrument under Article 121(6) TFEU, as an incentive-based mechanism of enhanced economic policy coordination for all Member States whose currency is the euro which is open to the voluntary participation of non-euro countries;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

40. Considers this instrument as an embryo for a fiscal capacity of the EMU, and stresses that the financial resources of the CCI must be an integral part of the EU budget, but outside the MFF ceilings, so as to respect the EU Treaties and law and ensure that the European Parliament is fully involved as budgetary authority by, inter alia, allowing a case-by-case adoption of the relevant budgetary appropriations;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41

41. Calls for the establishment of a multi- tier budget by including a new own resource financed by contributions paid by Member States participating in the CCI under a modified Own Resources Decision and by assigning the revenue of this new own resource to the expenditure of the CCI, and calls for an amendment of the Own Resources Decisions or, if this is not possible, for the use of the revenue of the Financial Transaction Tax as other revenue in order to compensate such direct contributions;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42

42. Calls for the introduction of a de facto codecision within the European Semester through an interinstitutional agreement, as a necessary step to guarantee the required democratic legitimacy for an enhanced economic policy coordination through the CCI;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44

~~44. Considers that the extension of the scoreboard of the Macroeconomic Imbalances Procedure to social scores should include all EU Member States;~~deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45

~~45. Is of the opinion that social benchmarks provided for by the CCI and automatic stabilisers should cover all Member States that participate in those instruments;~~deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47

47. Reiterates the call for the gradual roll- over of excessive debt into a redemption fund for the euro area based on the model of the German Economic Council of Experts; considers Article 352 TFEU to offer a legal basis for the establishment of such a fund for Member States whose currency is the euro, if necessary in conjunction with an enhanced cooperation of these Member States;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48

48. Considers the harmonisation of the bases of direct taxes under Article 115 TFEU and indirect taxes under Article 113 TFEU as an important step towards establishing a genuine economic union, so that an enhanced cooperation can be established if the required unanimity in the Council cannot be achievedCommon Consolidated Corporate Tax Base a as an important step towards establishing a genuine economic union;

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53

~~53. Calls for the current Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs to be a Treasury Minister and a permanent Vice-President of the Commission;~~deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56

56. Calls for a switch, with limited exceptions, of the voting procedures in the Council which require unanimity to qualified majority, and for the existing special legislative procedures to be converted into ordinary legislative procedures;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58

~~58. Takes the view that Union agencies should obtain the right to adopt~~ delegated ~~acts where a legislative act provides for it (by modifying Article 290 TFEU) as well as the possibility to confer implementing powers on them (by modifying Article 291 TFEU);~~

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58

58. Takes the view that Union agencies should not obtain the right to adopt delegated acts ~~where a legislative act provides for it (by modifying Article 290 TFEU) as well as the possibility to confer implementing powers on them (by modifying Article 291 TFEU)~~;

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59

~~59. Calls for the upgrading of the social clause of Article 9 TFEU in line with the environmental clause of Article 11 TFEU;~~deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60

60. Considers the reversed qualified majority voting in the Fiscal Compact as a merely political declaration without any legally binding effect on Member States, and calls instead for the integration of this voting rule into the Treaties and for the modification of Articles 121, 126 and 148 TFEU, in such a way that the proposals or recommendations submitted by the Commission may enter into force if no objection has been expressed by Parliament or the Council within a certain predefined period, in order to ensure fully-fledged legal certainty;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61

61. Advocates the introduction of the ordinary legislative procedure for the adoption of the broad guidelines of the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union under Article 121(2) TFEU and of the employment guidelines under Article 148(2) TFEU.deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62

62. Favours, while acknowledging that the multilateral surveillance procedure requires quick decision-making, inclusion in the decision-making procedures under Article 121(4) TFEU and Article 148(4) TFEU of the right of Parliament to propose amendments to a Commission proposal for a recommendation before its adoption by the Commission; the proposal can be rejected by a qualified majority of the Council if the Commission delivers a negative opinion; otherwise the recommendation shall be deemed to have been adopted by the Commission in its amended version;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 63

63. Calls for the inclusion of Parliament in the budgetary surveillance procedure under Article 126 TFEU, with the right to amend a Commission proposal for a recommendation which can be rejected by a qualified majority of the Council if the Commission delivers a negative opinion;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64

~~64. Calls for the deletion of the limitations on the jurisdiction of the ECJ foreseen by Article 126(10) TFEU;~~deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65

65. Calls for the amendment of Article 136 TFEU in order to open its scope to voluntary participation by non-euro Member States, providing for full voting rights in line with the enhanced cooperation procedure, and calls for the dropping of the restrictions under Article 136 TFEU and for the upgrading of this article into a general clause for the adoption of legal acts concerning the coordination and setting of legally binding minimum standards with regard to economic, employment and social policy;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66

66. Calls for a treaty change to create a legal basis in the chapter on economic policy so as to enable the establishment of a European debt agency for the issuance of bonds which is mandatory for Member States whose currency is the euro and is open to non-eurozone Member States; considers the establishment of such an agency to be possible along with the completion of a fully-fledged fiscal union;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70

~~70. Considers that the future Convention should examine the establishment of a legal basis which empowers the Union to raise its own taxes as a proper own resource for the benefit of the Union budget;~~deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71

~~71. Considers the inclusion of the possibility for the Union to budget for a deficit which shall not exceed a reference value specified in the Treaties;~~deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72

72. Calls for the establishment of a multi- tier budget in the Treaties providing for a multiannual financial framework and a system of own resources for Member States whose currency is the euro and for all Member States that wish to participate in this enhanced budget;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

Werner LANGEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75

75. Believes future Treaty amendments should enter into force throughout the Union following their ratification by four- fifths of the Member States representing a majority of the population of the Union, in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements;deleted

2013/09/13
Committee: AFCO

37 Amendments of Werner LANGEN related to 2012/2078(INI)

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