Activities of Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES related to 2023/2079(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on European Union regulatory fitness and subsidiarity and proportionality – report on Better Law-Making covering 2020, 2021 and 2022
Amendments (11)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
– having regard to the Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on "The EU Youth Test",
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas assuring the coherence of EU legislation can significantly facilitate its implementation and, therefore, positively impact its ability to shape outcomes of interest;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Suggests a revision of the subsidiarity control mechanism with the aim of making it less constraining and less burdensome for national parliaments, thereby allowing for deeper political discussions on European politics at national level, while preventing the misuse of this mechanism for slowing the integration of the Union;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the importance of promoting dialogue between Members of national Parliament and Members of the European Parliament; highlights the need for the European Parliament’s Committees to engage directly with national parliaments with specific thematic focuses;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses that the Regulatory Scrutiny Board can only provide an effective check on the Commission’s work if its independence and impartiality are indisputably established; calls, in this regard, for the independence of the Board, including by ensuring a well- balanced composition that reflects a broad set of backgrounds and competences; calls for increased transparency of the Board, including by publishing all its opinions immediately after adoption, by declaring its meetings with interest groups, and by making the use of the Transparency Register mandatory for its members; underlines that, while the advice of the Board should be taken into account by the Commission to improve impact assessments, evaluations and fitness checks, it should in no way affect the Commission’s capacity to propose legislation; calls for closer cooperation between the Board and the co-legislators;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Welcomes the Commitment from the EESC to implement a ‘EU Youth Test’ on its opinions; calls on the Commission to adopt a fully-fledged ‘EU Youth Test’ to ensure the meaningful engagement, participation and commitment of young people in the preparation of all EU policies; highlights that this should lead to the establishment of a systematic impact assessment on its proposals to ensure that they promote and reflect the needs of young people and to take mitigation measures if they have a negative impact;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Stresses the importance of gender impact assessments for the design of legislative proposals and gender- responsive evaluations of legislative initiatives; regrets that gender impacts are rarely addressed as part of the Commission’s impact assessments; asks the Commission to carry out and publish a gender impact assessment for each legislative proposal and include explicitly gender-related objectives and performance indicators in its proposals;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses that the implementation of the ‘one in, one out’ approach should not run counter to the objectives of better regulation, lead to mechanical decisions to repeal legislation, result in deregulation or ‘no-regulation’, or prevent Member States from maintaining or taking more ambitious measures and adopting higher social, environmental and consumer protection standards where only minimum standards are defined by Union law;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Calls for further transparency of decision-making processes within all institutions; deplores the Council’s lack of transparency and its practice of over- classifying documents; urges the Council to increase the documents it makes public, in particular the positions expressed by the Member States, thereby allowing the public to know the position of their government and enhancing scrutiny by national parliaments;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 d (new)
Paragraph 15 d (new)
15d. Calls for the introduction of a direct right of legislative initiative of the European Parliament; stresses this is an important feature of representative democracy at Member State level; welcomes the Commission’s commitment to always respond with a legislative act to requests under Article 225 TFEU; calls on the Council and the Commission to ensure increased facilitation of this right;