Activities of Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ related to 2020/2262(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION European Union regulatory fitness and subsidiarity and proportionality -----– report on Better Law Making covering the years 2017, 2018 and 2019
Amendments (9)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the importance, for a properly functioning and competitive internal market, of effective better law- making tools, that take subsidiarity and proportionality fully into account when drawing up scientifically based and balanced legislation, particularly for consumers and SMEs; welcomes the use of the better law making tools and the cooperation with think-tanks, underlines the necessity of simplifying these tools and make them easy to understand and use by the stakeholders, and of taking into account the economic impact assessment when drawing legislation that affects the consumers and the SMEs, considers that the necessary period for adaptation to the new rules and regulations for the SMEs must be better taken into account;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates that internal market objectives such as improving competitiveness, digitalisation, sustainability and consumer protection should be underpinned by the enhanced use of scrutiny instruments such, welcomes the use of such instruments as the regulatory fitness and performance programme (REFIT) and, the Regulatory Scrutiny Board for the period 2017-2019 and stresses the importance of further use of scrutiny instruments, enhancing and improving them like the Fit for Future Platform (F4F) or other dedicated platforms;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines that SMEs in particular will continue to face serious repercussions due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other unforeseen events with serious economical impact and need more flexibility to react quickly to the ever- changing demands of our economy; reiterates that cutting red tape, the ‘think small first’ principle and fostering a society that values entrepreneurship need to be priorities within internal market legislation;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States’ authorities at national and regional level, and on stakeholders to become more closely involved at an early stage of the decision-making process, using the tools in place at the European institutions level, the professional and sectorial associations, with subsidiarity and proportionality checks and administrative burden assessments of EU legislation; calls further on the Member States to ensure the swift and consistent transposition, implementation and enforcement of legislation, and to avoid ‘gold-plating’ that can undermine the smooth functioning of the internal market;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’s impact assessments attempt to cover a wide and comprehensive range of potential impacts to the Single Market; believes however that the system could still be strengthened by improving its transparency and accountability with the European Parliament;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Welcomes the setting up of the One-Stop-Shop for SMEs, calls for further steps to increase public awareness for them and to use this instrument for simplifying the participation of SMEs in an open single market with no legislative or language barriers;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Considers that the Commission should further use ex-ante evaluation and provisional impact assessments accompanying the communications and strategies in the legislative process, in order to provide detailed and preliminary analysis of their consequences for the functioning of the Single Market, thus forming an intelligible and consistent process for stimulating growth and competitiveness in the EU;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Recalls the importance of using think tanks at the European level in drafting new legislation, stresses the need to improve the law making process by establishing regulatory sandboxes and by also taking into account the studies and the experience of the specialists involved at different levels;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Welcomes the use of the One In One Out and Think Small First principles which ensure that legislation does not overregulate the single market by adding unnecessary burdens to SMEs and underlines the necessity to prioritize these principles during the law-making process;