Activities of Elena BĂSESCU related to 2011/2275(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Monitoring the application of EU law (2010) (debate)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the specific section on petitions contained in the 28th annual report, as requested by Parliament, in which the Commission gives a breakdown of new petitions received; welcomes the Commission's report that ‘petitions to the European Parliament led to infringement proceedings’ in a number of areas; emphasises that, even wheren petitions do not concern infringements, they provide the Parliament and Commission with remarkable information on citizens‘ concerns;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Points out that many petitions refer to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and invoke the values of the EU Treaties, evidencing a potentially significant disconnection between the values enshrined in the EU's primary law and thoseeir observanced by Member States;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that citizens, when submitting a petition to the European Parliament, may expect to be protected by the provisions of the Charter, regardless of which Member State they reside in and whether or not EU law is being implemented; remains concerned, in this regard, that citizens may feel misled about the actual scope of application of the Charter; considers it essential, therefore, to explain properly the subsidiary principle and to clarify the scope of application of the Charter from Parliament's perspective;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses, in addition, that citizens may similarly feel misled about the applicability of community law in instances of late transposition; points to the distressing reality that citizens who cannot avail themselves of an applicable community law because it has not yet been transposed by the Member State in question find themselves without recourse to any redress mechanism;