6 Amendments of Costas BOTOPOULOS related to 2008/2120(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the new rights accorded to national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon, notably with regard to the principle of subsidiarity, encourage them to get actively involved at an early stage in the process of policy formulation at the level of the Union,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the primary task and function of the European Parliament and the national parliaments is to take part in legislative decision-making and to scrutinise political choices at, respectively, the national and the European level; whereas this does not renders close cooperation for the common good superfluousEuropean public interest indispensable, especially as regards the correct transposition of the law of the Union into national law,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Notes with satisfaction that its relations with the national parliaments have developed fairly positively in recent years, but not yet to a sufficient extent, notably through the following forms of joint activities:
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Observes that meetings of the chairs of specialised committees of the European Parliament and of the national parliaments, such as the meetings of the chairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, are, because of the limited number of participants, also a tool for sharing information and exchanging views;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Would welcome in this context innovations at the level of national parliaments, such as giving Memberthe Chairs of the specialised committees of the European Parliament the right to be invited once a year to speak before the equivalent committees of the national parliaments and giving Members of the European Parliament the right to be invited to speak in plenary sittings of national parliaments, to participate in meetings of European affairs committees on a consultative basis, to take part in meetings of specialised committees whenever they discuss relevant pieces of European Union legislation, or to take part in meetings of the respective political groups on a consultative basis;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. States that national parliaments are for the first time being given a definformalised role in European Union matters which is distinct from that of their national governments and which, contributes to stronger democratic control and brings the Union closer to the citizen;