3 Amendments of Konstantinos ARVANITIS related to 2021/2071(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Regrets the European Council conclusions of 10 and 11 December 2020 on the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation and considers that they contravene Articles 15 and 17 of the TEU and Article 288 of the TFEU insofar as they introduce unnecessary legal uncertainty and reiterates that the application of the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation cannot be subject to the adoption of guidelines, and; urges the Commission to avoid any further delay in its application;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the Commission has begun to draft guidelines on the application of the Regulation; requests that, if the Commission deems such guidelines necessary, Parliament be consulted prior to their adoption and that the Parliament is being consulted prior to their adoption; believes however that such guidelines do not bring any added value at this stage and that they are mainly aimed at delaying the process of applying the Regulation; considers that under the pretext of avoiding a potential annulment of the measures adopted pursuant to the Regulation by the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Commission is neither addressing democratic, fundamental rights and rule of law violations and backsliding in the Member States nor meeting the expectations in regard to the operationalisation of this instrument;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. While acknowledging the complementarity of the Regulation with other instruments established by its Article 6(1), urges the Commission to make use of the Regulation since the other procedures set out in Union legislation do not allow for the effective protection of the Union budget from the grave, permanent and systematic violations of the values listed in Article 2 of the TEU that are taking place in some Member States;