8 Amendments of Jo LEINEN related to 2014/2257(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas a number of institutions, NGOs, think tanks and civil society groups have considered the various deficiencies in the implementation of the Regulation on the Citizens’ Initiative and in the organisation of ECIs and have proposed many improvements;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that under the terms of Article 4 of Regulation 211/2011, in the event of a refusal by the Commission to register an ECI, ‘the Commission shall inform the organisers of the reasons for such refusal and of all possible judicial and extrajudicial remedies available to them’; acknowledges, in this connection, the many complaints from organisers about not receiving detailed and exhaustive reasons for the rejection of their ECIs, and; invites the Commission to provide as many elements as possible in order to explain the reasons and guide organisers to a possible solutionexplain in detail the reasons for rejection of an ECI if in its view an ECI which has been submitted is ‘manifestly outside the Commission’s powers’ and at the same time to inform the organisers of the relevant legal considerations, so that they can decide whether to revise their ECI and resubmit it in a modified form;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to improve the user-friendly character of its software for the online collection of signatures and in particular to make it more accessible for people with disabilities, and to offer its servers for the storage of online signatures for free on a permanent basis;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Invites the Commission to reconsider the automatic start of the signature collection period following the registratCalls for an end to the automatic link between the registration of an ECI and the beginning of the 12-month period within which expressions of an ECI and to allow the organisers to decide when it should beginsupport can be collected, so that the organisers of an ECI themselves can decide when they wish to start to collect expressions of support;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Deems it too complicated for organisers to provide different personal data in support of ECIs in the 28 Member States, as laid down in Regulation 211/2011 on the basis of the various national provisions, and suggests that consideration be given to establishing an EU digital citizenship; calls on the Commission, therefcalls for the introduction of a uniform procedure for making statements of support; urges the Member States, accordingly, to dispense with personal identification numbers as a requirement for making a statement of support, since they are not only a needless bureaucratic obstacle to the collection of statements of supporet, to explore this issue in its digital agendabut are also not necessary in order to check the identity of a signatory;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls for the requirements for signatories under Article 3(4) to be amended and for the minimum age for supporting a citizens' initiative not to be tied to the right to vote in elections to the European Parliament, but, rather, to be uniformly set at 16 across the EU in order to give young people in particular the possibility of becoming actively involved in taking the European project forward;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to revisefor revision of the wording of Article 10(c) of Regulation 211/2011 so as to allow propermore extensive follow-up to a successful ECI, including a parliamentary debate in plenary followed by a vote on the ECI; urges the Commission to start preparing a legal act on successful ECIs within 12 months of their acceptanceafter issuing a positive opinion;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission, in view of the various shortcomings which have arisen, to submit as soon as possible a proposal to revise Regulation No 211/2011;