4 Amendments of Véronique MATHIEU HOUILLON 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;