7 Amendments of Jean-Pierre AUDY related to 2013/2196(DEC)
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Notes that Protocol 6, annexed to the Treaties, on the location of the seats of the institutions, decided by common agreement of the governments of the Member States, imposes on Parliament its three working places; notes the call expressed in its resolution of 17 April 2013 on the 2011 discharge for "the Secretary-General and the Bureau to provide Members with up- to-date figures and information on thedocument received from the Secretary-General, ‘The three places of work of the European Parliament – financial and, environmental and regional impacts of the multiple seat arrangement" that followed Parliament’s resolution of 6 February 2013 on the guidelines for the 2014 budget proceduregeographic dispersion', which was prepared on 30 August 2013;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Recalls that significant historical reasons motivated the seat of the Parliament to be established in its current three places of work and that the question of determination of the seat of an Union institution is the exclusive competence of the Member States; notes in this respect that any decision to change the seats arrangement of Parliament would require a change of the Treaties, a decision which would have to be taken unanimously by the Member States;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 – indent 4
Paragraph 43 – indent 4
– additional costs resulting from the Strasbourg and Luxembourg sites have been declared separately;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Emphasises the fact that 10,703 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year would be saved if Strasbourg (10 235) and Luxembourg (468) were no longer used as places of workrelating to Parliament's activities would be saved if the three places of work were placed on the same footing; notes that this environmental impact of the geographic dispersion of Parliament in terms of carbon emissions accounts for 11,16 % of Parliament's total carbon footprint in 2011; takes the view that CO2 emissions relating to journeys by Members from their constituencies across the EU ought not to be much different wherever the places of work are;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Notes with satisfaction that the implementation of the Bureau decision on a Resource efficient multilingualism produce in 2012 savings of EUR 10,9 million and EUR 10 million in the interpretation and in the translation services respectively, without affecting the principle ofsignificantly affecting multilingualism or impairing the quality of parliamentary work; reiterates that interinstitutional cooperation is essential in order to exchange best practices that promote effectiveness and allow savings to be made; notes, however, that for both translation and interpretation the principle of multilingualism is being observed less and less;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59
59. NSupports EuroparlTV and notes that, in the 2012 budget adopted by Parliament in plenary, EUR 8,5 million was earmarked for the EuroparlTV under the budget line 3246; recognises that whereas the budget for the EuroparlTV has been substantially reduced from EUR 9 million in 2008 to EUR 5 million in 2014, the performance of this service has been improved with a number of new activities and projects, inter alia, a larger proportion of ready to use audio-visual products with a longer lifespan, and a series of exclusive co- productions with national TV channels in several Member States, resulting in increasing audiences numbers; welcomes the ever increasing number of Parliament’s followers on social media, in particular on Facebook with its current more than 1,2 millions ‘friends’, for which exclusive EuroparlTV productions are developed; looks forward to receiving the independent evaluation study of Parliament’s online multimedia production commissioned in accordance with the decision of the Bureau of 3 December 2012;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66 e (new)
Paragraph 66 e (new)
66e. Proposes that new information and communication technologies be used to a greater extent in the translation and interpretation services;