11 Amendments of Satu HASSI related to 2010/2016(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to carry out mandatoryontinue to carry out impact assessments (IAs) on all legislative proposals, as this is necessary to determine the need for legislation and to provide a basis for decision-making and to determine whether there is 'EU value added';
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1a (new)
Paragraph 1a (new)
1a. Stresses that impact assessments can only be an aid for making political decisions and that in no case should they replace political decisions within the democratic decision-making process;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1b (new)
Paragraph 1b (new)
1b. Furthermore stresses that impact assessments should not cause delays in legislative procedures, nor should they be instrumentalised to serve as procedural obstacles in an attempt to block unwanted legislation;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1c (new)
Paragraph 1c (new)
1c. Insists that the legislator's freedom to propose amendments should not be impaired by requiring impact assessments;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to establish a trulyn independent Impact Assessment Board (IAB) to provide external critical oversight of the quality of IAs; suggests that this should be composed of independent members from outside the institutional structure of the EU, approved by the Parliament and Council and suppthe economic, social, health and environmental Directorated by a secretariat of Commission staff; suggests that the IAB should recommend to the Parliament tos-General of the Commission that are separate from the unit(s) responsible, rejspect a legislative proposal if its accompanying IA does not meet the required standardsively, and supported by a secretariat of Commission staff;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that stakeholders should be engagconsulted in the process of drawing up IAs and that draft IAs should be made available for comment before the final document is published;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for a compulsory cost-benefit analysis with clearly quantified benefits and costs to be included in each IA to allow a comparisonsiders that it is often difficult to quantify costs and benefits in a reliable and symmetrical way: - while certain short-term economic costs may be quantifiable, even this is not always possible due to commercial confidentiality or market opacity, - it is almost impossible to put a reliable figure to many impacts (e.g. impacts on human health, effects on species or biodiversity), and therefore considers that qualitative aspects should be given at least equal weight as quantitative aspects, and that all assumptions of alternative options; r uncertainties of any quantitative assessment should be clearly stated;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for an analysis of environmental impacts to be includedconomic, social, environmental and health impacts over the medium-/long-term to be included in a balanced manner in all IAs; considers that where there are no such impacts this should be explicitly stated in the IA;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the importance of and need for the Parliament's own Committees, in accordance with the Inter-Institutional Common Approach to Impact Assessment, to undertake reviews of the IAs andt their accompanying IAB reports at the initial stage of the initial stage of the procedure; stresses that in accordance with the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Lawmaking of 31 December 2003 that "where the codecision procedure, and to produce its own IAs in the event of substantive amendments which significantly alter Commission proposalpplies, the European Parliament and Council may ... have impact assessments carried out prior to the adoption of any substantive amendments", meaning that the use of IA is merely an option and not an obligation for the legislator, and considers that this should remain like this;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8d (new)
Paragraph 8d (new)
8d. Calls on the chair of the IAB to appear before and address the committees concerned, respectively, and upon their request, on an annual basis following the publication of the IAB annual report;