12 Amendments of Cristian TERHEŞ related to 2020/2275(INI)
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas, in order to achieve those objectives, the procedures and conditions required for the ECI should ensure that initiatives on valid subjects are considered and responded to appropriately by the Commission; whereas at least one million signatures from at least a quarter of the Member States are required for an ECI to be submitted to the Commission; whereas the Commission has made the deadline for submitting signatures more flexible in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; whereas the ECI must not be politically weaponised;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to reduce the deadlines to respond to the EP requests, to assess and report annually on the petitions dealt with and to ensure that this assessment feeds into political decision-making at the level of the Commission;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls for the PETI committee to boost the collaboration with national parliaments and to create a partnership allowing exchange of experience and best practices concerning the most efficient referral of petitions to the competent body;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Considering that, according to the Guidelines 1a when asked for its opinion, a committee will weigh the importance of the right to petition and its legislative workload before deciding whether or not to give an opinion, and that this rule pre- dates the Lisbon Treaty and reflects an old perception of the importance of petitions in parliamentary work, calls for an update of the Guidelines to provide the PETI Committee and other committees with the necessary authority to carry out their work effectively; _________________ 1a Conference of Committee Chairs of the European Parliament, Guidelines on the treatment of petitions by the standing committees, 14 July 1998, PE225.233
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls for an improved data analysis function in the ePetition database in order to improve the quality of data on petitions sent to other committees by automatizing this process and to facilitate the retrieval from ePetition of previous petitions on the same subject;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Congratulates the Ombudsman for the work done in promoting multilingualism for citizens and for publishing a set of recommendations to the EU administration on the use of official EU languages when communicating with the public, recommendations that give guidance on how and when to communicate in which languages in order to safeguard the EU linguistic diversity;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Congratulates the Ombudsman for monitoring how the EU’s frontline institutions are carrying out their work during the pandemic and for underlining their obligation for transparency; welcomes the question addressed by the Ombudsman to the Commission about the transparency of the scientific advice it receives, its meetings with representatives of interest groups, and its decisions related to emergency public procurement;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Urges the European institutions, bodies and agencies to follow the Ombudsman recommendations regarding transparency, accountability, access to documents, "revolving doors", lobbying transparency and other ethical issues;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to inform the public about the EU’s competences to make sure that ECIs concern subjects and issues that fall within the EU’s remit; emphasises that recent ECIs have called for the EU to take more action, more quickly, in the fight against climate change;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission to improve the ECI tool to make citizens’ participation more accessible, given the low number of ECIs that have ultimately been successful;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to inform the public about the EU’s competences to make sure that ECIs concern subjects and issues that fall within the EU’s remit; emphasises that recent ECIs have called for the EU to take more action, more quickly, in the fight against climate change;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission to improve the ECI tool to make citizens’ participation more accessible, given the low number of ECIs that have ultimately been successful;