30 Amendments of Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD related to 2021/2166(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
— having regard to the Commission Communication entitled ‘Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy: Building a stronger Single Market for Europe’s recovery’ (COM/2021/350 final),
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 b (new)
Citation 6 b (new)
— having regard to the European Parliament report entitled ‘A New Industrial Strategy for Europe’ (2020/2076(INI)),
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
— having regard to its report ‘on a new strategy for European SMEs’(2020/2131(INI))
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
Amendment 16 #
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; whereas European legislation should be fit for purpose, balancedproportionate, clear, transparent and comprehensive in order to effectively benefit citizens and stakeholders;
Amendment 30 #
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; whereas sustainabilit for 2050; whereas sustainability and social market economy should be at the heart of quality law-making, placing social, environmental and economicconomic and environmental considerations on an equal footing;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas well carried out ex ante and ex post impact assessments and, public consultations and the "evaluate first principle" are essential tools for well- informed, better, efficient, accountable and transparent law-making;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas the Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB) Plays an important role in improving European legislation and it assessed that around 1/3 of impact assessments in 20211a have been negative in their first assessment; _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/docume nts-register/
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the aim of the regulatory fitness and performance (REFIT) programme isand the Fit for Future Platform (F4F) are to simplify EU laws and reduce unnecessary administrative burdens with a view to improve regulatory compliance, increasing the focus on regulatory offsetting and fitness checks of previous, current and future legislation;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas according to EUR-Lex1b the Commission adopted or amended 1,977 legislative or non-legislative acts in 2021 alone, whereas in the same period only 1,008 legislative or non-legislative acts were repealed or expired; _________________ 1b https://eur- lex.europa.eu/statistics/2021/legislative- acts-statistics.html; https://eur- lex.europa.eu/statistics/legal- acts/2021/legislative-acts-statistics- repealed-and-expired-acts.html
Amendment 59 #
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, in line with the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda,aim that EU laws should deliver maximum benefits to citizens and businesses, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises and to paymaking 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 areasbetter use of strategic foresight; since it plays a key role in helping to future-proof EU policy making by ensuring that short-term initiatives are based on a longer-term perspective; calls foron the Commission to clearly define the ‘do no significant harm’ principle in order to ensure its consistent application; welcomes the proposal that sustaisystematically apply regulatory sandboxes for policy making to every policy field enability andng digitalisation should be better taken into account in law-making; calls on the Commission to implement a ‘sustainability first’ approach law-making, especially for SMEs, where policy value added must clearly outweigh administrative, adjustment and compliance costs; calls on the Commission to use its strategic foresight capacities especially for burden reduction;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Highlights that there are 1.28 million1c small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the EU and therefore the Commission should not just perform the SME test more systematically, but shall foresee a mandatory SME test to be performed for all legislative proposals; _________________ 1c https://www.statista.com/statistics/878412/ number-of-smes-in-europe-by-size/
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to more actively publicising consultations in order to reach more citizens, stakeholders, in particular SMEs, and local and regional authorities;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to perform impact assessments to be performed on all acton all legislative proposals, without exception; regrets that this was not the case for several politically sensitive proposals in the past; recalls that on several occasions Parliament has carried out its own impact assessments in replacement of the Commission’s; nevertheless, recalls that impact assessments help to inform but do not replace political decision-making;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Underlines that if an impact assessment has not been performed than the Commission should publish the staff working document at the same time as the legislative proposal;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that Parliament has set up a dedicated directorate, the Directorate for Impact Assessment and European Added Value, to be able to carry out ex ante and ex post impact assessments with a view to supporting evidence-based policy-making and asks to foresee enough funding and human resources for this Directorate in order to enable it to perform high quality impact assessments;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the Commission to enable the Fit for Future Platform and Member States to provide feedback on the Commission’s cost and benefits estimates after implementation;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Highlights the necessity for regulatory offsetting using fitness checks, consolidating parallel and overlapping regulations and calls on the Commission to thoroughly examine how new legislative elements overlap with existing legislation and to avoid unproportionally increasing administrative, adjustment and compliance costs for citizen and companies, especially SMEs and urges the Commission to take a closer look at legislative network effects and consolidate its legislative activates, accordingly;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the Commission’s renewed commitment to transparency of the evaluation process and calls for the publication of multi-annual evaluation plans; further emphasises the need to increase the availability of public, complete and accessible evidence supporting impact assessments and evaluations, and welcomes, in this regard, the Commission’s intention to improve its evidence registers and the links between them as well as to make its internal databases and repositories easily publicly accessible;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Takes note ofWelcomes 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 while increasing the focus on regulatory offsetting;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines that ‘strategic foresight’ could plays a key role in helping to future- proof EU policy-making 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 ofthe Commission needs to provide prove how these approaches have been followed in practice; encourages the Commission to look into innovative cost assessment tools;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Outlines that the Commission should better align and combine its better regulation and strategic foresight activates in order to better integrate both processes;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Urges the Commission to establish a SME Envoy to minimise bureaucratic burdens across Member States, being appointed with horizontal competencies within the presidency’s Cabinet, in order to do justice to the importance of SMEs in the EU;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10 c. Points out that the quality of the replies to parliaments questions for oral answer, such as for example O- 000003/2020 and O-000028/2021 concerning the implementation of the better Regulation, are very poor, calls therefore for an immediate and structural significant improvement of the Commissions answer to parliamentary questions;
Amendment 133 #
11. Takes note ofWelcomes and strongly supports the involvement of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB) in impact assessments, fitness checks, and major evaluations of current legislation; notes, however, that the transparency of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board on meetings with stakeholders, reviews, recommendations and opinions should be significantly improved; underlines that the work of the Board should not ultimately affect the Commission’s capacity to propose legislation or unduly delay the adoption of legislative proposals; considers that all the Board’s opinions should always be made public immediately after adoption without any exception, as its involvement significantly improve the evidence-based work of the Commission; recognises that the independence of the RSB has to be strengthened and calls on the Commission to extend its collaboration with the RSB, strengthening it by providing more means and competences to its work; calls on the Commission to publish all RSB´s opinions immediately after adoption without any exception and to delver them as well to the Parliament and the Council;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Takes note ofWelcomes the ‘one in, one out’ approach by which the Commission aims to offset newly introduced burdens by relieving citizens and businesses of equivalent burdens at EU level in the same policy area; regrets the unilateral introduction of this approach by the Commission, without a prior impact assessment or consultation; underlines that the implementation of this approach should not affect political imperatives or the objectives of better regulation, and emphasises that it should not lead to mechanical or mathematical decisions to repeal legislation, lower its standard or result in a chilling effect on legislation; recalls that the need for new legislation should not automatically imply that current legislation is no longer needed; calls and asks the Commission to make more efficient use of it and focusing more on regulatory offsetting; calls for new legislation to go hand in hand with replacing, merging and improving and for this approach to be based on a transparent and evidence-based methodology giving balancedproportionate consideration to all sustainability aspects, both in terms of benefits and costs, including the costs of non-compliance and inaction; calls on the Commission, in this regard, to make its ‘one in, one out’ calculator public before applying this approach and to develop the current "one in, one out" approach into a binding "one in, x out" approach applicable to all legislations, in order to allow for future- proof, coherent and less burdensome legislation;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Calls on the Commission to introduce a digital single reporting instrument, consolidation reporting requirements arising from the revision of the non-financial reporting directive (NFRD), the taxonomy, but also the reporting requirements from the Fit for 55 package in a single tool, which is designed with specific requirements and ready-made Key Performance Indicators (KPls) and standards, accessible in a modular and digital way for companies and other organisations
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Highlights that the Better Regulation Guidelines and Toolbox need to be improved with regards to the effects of costs added by co-legislators in the course of negotiations and Member States “gold-plating” legislation when transposing it into the national laws since "gold-plating" practices are one of the main sources of administrative burden;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12 c. Recalls on Member States and the Commission to acknowledge the immediate need for better regulation and simplification and to adopt a roadmap with concrete and binding targets and indicators as an important prerequisite for our economy’s ability to recover and innovate; notes that several Member States have set quantitative targets of up to 30% for the reduction of administrative burden; therefore, calls on the Commission to set ambitious and binding quantitative and qualitative targets, such as reducing administrative burdens at least by 55% to the level of regulatory burden in 2021 by 2030; underlines the need for the consistent application of the ‘think small first’ principle and the strengthening of the principle of being ‘big on big things, small on small things’ in order to ensure proper focus on SMEs in EU and national legislation and as the basis for a new interinstitutional commitment to reducing administrative burdens;