14 Amendments of Jean-Paul GARRAUD related to 2021/2166(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas better law-making is a common goal for all EU Institutions, and should be achieved by increasing transparency, accountability and cooperation between the institutions and Member States, citizens and stakeholders, ensuring full respect of all fundamental European values, including democracy, the rule of law and, human rights;, sovereignty and the identity of European nations whereas legislation should be fit for purpose, balanced, clear, transparent and comprehensive in order to benefit citizens and stakeholders;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas better law-making is a common goal for all EU Institutions, and should be achieved by increasing transparency, accountability and cooperation between the institutions and Member States, citizens and stakeholders, ensuring full respect of all fundamental European values, including democracy, the rule of law and human rights;freedom and equality whereas legislation should be fit for purpose, balanced, clear, transparent and comprehensive in order to benefit citizens and stakeholders;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas better law-making must aim to serve the EU’s political ambitions, especially its long-term objectives, such as social progress and the binding objective of Union climate neutrality by 2050, and the long-term priority objective for 2050 that citizens live well, within the limits of our planet;and its Member States' political ambitions whereas sustainability should be at the heart of quality law-making, placing social, environmental and economic considerations on an equal footing;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas better law-making must aim to serve the EU’s political ambitions of all Member States, especially itstheir long-term objectives, such as social progress and the binding objective of Union climate neutrality by 2050, and the long-term priority objective for 2050 that citizens live well, within the limits of our planetfor instance; whereas sustainability should be at the heart of quality law-making, placing social, environmental and economic considerations on an equal footing;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the aim of the regulatory fitness and performance (REFIT) programme is to simplify EU laws and reduce unnecessary administrative burdens with a view to improve regulatory compliance;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the Treaties grant Parliament the direct right of initiative only in very limited cases; whereas Parliament has called for increasing its right of initiative in its resolution on Parliament’s right of initiative; whereas under the principle of parallelism of procedures, a right of initiative for the other co- legislator, the Council, should also be considered;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to making better use of foresight, mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals in all its legislative proposals, without obeying a punitive ecological logic, in line with the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, to paying greater attention to gender equality and equality for all, and to ensuring that the ‘do no significant harm’ and precautionary principles are applied across all policy areas; calls for the Commission to clearly define the ‘do no significant harm’ principle in order to ensure its consistent application; welcomes the proposal that sustainability and digitalisation should be better taken into account in law-making; calls on the Commission to implement a ‘sustainability first’ approach;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomesTakes note of the Commission’s commitment to making better use of foresight, mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals in all its legislative proposals, in line with the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, to paying greater attention to gender equality and equality for all, and to ensuring that the ‘do no significant harm’ and precautionary principles are applied across all policy areas; calls for the Commission to clearly define the ‘do no significant harm’ principle in order to ensure its consistent application; welcomes the proposal that sustainability and digitalisation should be better taken into account in law-making; calls on the Commission to implement a ‘sustainability first’ approach;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. WelcomNotes the Commission’s initiative to make the ‘Have your say’ web portal more accessible to people with disabilities and to consolidate public consultations into a single ‘call for evidence’; calls for all related documents, questionnaires and contributions to be available in all EU official languages; calls for greater transparency on how replies are taken into account; calls for the Commission to involve more representations in the Member States, institutions such as the European Economic and Social Committee or the Committee of the Regions, as well as national authorities with a view to disseminating more information on public consultations;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. CRecalls forthat the mainstreaming of children’s rights in EU legislationEU's powers to legislate in areas where children are involved remain limited; calls in this regard for the introduction of a children’s rights test in impact assessments and for the launch of more public consultations addressed to children and adolescents;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Takes note of the use of instruments such as the regulatory fitness and performance programme (REFIT) and the ‘Fit for Future’ Platform to identify opportunities for simplification and reducing unnecessary costs before the Commission proposes a revision, while scrupulously respecting the constitutional traditions of the Member States and while ensuring the highest standards of protection and enhancing compliance with EU law; recalls that the ‘Fit for Future’ platform’s role is also to assess whether specific Union legislation and its objectives remain future-proof and adapted to new challenges;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Takes note of the use of instruments such as the regulatory fitness and performance programme (REFIT) and the ‘Fit for Future’ Platform to identify opportunities for simplification and reducing unnecessary costs before the Commission proposes a revision, while ensuring the highest standards of protection and enhancing compliance with EU law; recalls that the ‘Fit for Future’ platform’s role is also to assess whether specific Union legislation and its objectives remain future-proof and adapted to new challenges;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines that ‘strategic foresight’ could play a key role in helping to future- proof EU policy-making by all Member States by ensuring that assessments of new initiatives are grounded in a longer-term perspective, emphasising the added value of quality legislation as an investment in the future; welcomes the integration of ‘foresight elements’ into the Commission’s better regulation agenda in impact assessments and evaluations; considers, however, that the Commission’s methodology for quantifying costs, deciding on trade-offs and implementing strategic foresight remains unclear, and that practice will allow assessment of how these approaches have been followed in practice; encourages the Commission to look into innovative cost assessment tools;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Invites the Conference on the Future of Europe to discuss the strengthening of the European Parliament’s and the Council's right of legislative initiative, as it is the only democratically elected body in the EU and directly represents European citizens; recalls Commission President von der Leyen’s commitment to support Parliament’s right of initiative; regrets that this possibility has been regularly deferred to future Treaty revisions;