7 Amendments of József SZÁJER related to 2014/2257(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission, furthermore, to revise the list of its competences onimprove its internet portal andin order to make it more comprehensible and user- friendly, especially related to the information on its competences and the support that can be acquired for a successful application, given that the registration of a large number of submitted citizens' initiatives was rejected on the grounds that they manifestly fell outside the framework of the Commission's competence;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to consider registering only those parts of the initiatives that meet the required conditions. For such a registration, a prior consultation with the applicant citizens committee would be adequate;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to explore the possibility for a harmonised procedure for submitting statements of support, as it is unacceptable that EU citizens should be excluded from supporting Citizens' Initiatives owing to differing personal data submission requirements in the Member States; calls on the Member States, as a matter of urgency, to remove. Calls on the Member States to review their requirement that as on personal identification number be provided for a statement of support, as this represents an unnecessary bureaucratic burden for the collection of statements of support and also an unnecessary way of checking the identity of a signatorydata, as a matter of urgency in order to reduce the unnecessary bureaucratic burden for the collection of statements;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that liability issues have arisen for the organisers of Citizens' Initiatives owing to the fact that citizens' committees lack legal personality and that this problem could only be solved by revising the regulation; calls on the Commission, therefore, to explore the possibility of the admittance of the legal personality of the Citizens' Committees referred to in Article 3 (2) of the Regulation;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Underlines the importance of the institutional balance in the process of the evaluation of the applications after registration, therefore, calls on the Commission to explore the possibility of the involvement of the relevant European institutions and bodies, such as the European Parliament, the European Ombudsman, the ECOSOC and the Committee of the Regions;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to submit afor an appropriate and timely proposal for the revision of the Regulation on the Citizen's' Initiative as soon as possible,, to meet the expectations of the European Citizens, and to make the Citizen's Initiative easier to use and more citizen-friendly andin order to enable it to fully unfold its potential.;