15 Amendments of Ramon TREMOSA i BALCELLS related to 2015/2326(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Whereas in 2014 the European Commission received 3715 complaints reporting potential breaches of EU law, being Spain (553), Italy (475) and Germany (276) the Member States that most complaints were filed against;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Whereas in 2014 the Commission launched 893 new infringement procedures, being Greece (89), Italy (89) and Spain (86) the Member States with a highest number of open cases;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 b (new)
Paragraph -1 b (new)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. calls on the Commission to dedicate, for each directorate-general, a webpage listing the Member States not having transposed directives or not complying with decisions and regulations; considers it should be updated on a monthly basis and should detail which directives have not been transposed and/or which decisions and regulations have not been complied with;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. considers that the Commission should more actively tackle cases of improperly transposed directives, as it may cover cases of both involuntary and of voluntary action by Member States;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. considers it the duty of the Commission to oppose the two legislative branches of decision making at the European level leaving substantive elements to be decided through delegated acts/implementing acts during the co- decision process, due to the legal uncertainties and potential risks, dangers and complications which could result;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. expresses concern that the settlement concluded with the UK on February 19 2016 has been concluded outside of the EU treaty framework which could create legal uncertainties; underlines the importance of the Court of Justice in its enforcement control as well as its sovereign power;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that the Late Payments Directive is still not implemented well in 11 Member States, most of them being the ones that suffered most from the economic crisis and would be most able to reap its benefits, and that the situation is worst in Italy, Cyprus, Spain, Portugal and Greece, where the delay in B2B2 payments is well above average3 ; __________________ 2causing additional problems for SMEs3a; __________________ 2 Business-to-business. Business-to-business. 3 See ‘Transposition and implementation of the Directive on Late Payments in Commercial Transactions’, European Parliamentary Research Service. 3a"The Economic Impact of Late Payments", September 2014, European Commission.
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that non-compliance with the Maastricht criteria, and the lenient enforcement of the Stability and Growth Pact rules by the Commission and the Council before 2010, contributed to the emergence of the European debt crisis that followed the global financial crisis; and points out that besides the persistent non- compliance of Greece, France and Germany infringed deficit rules earlier (in 2003-2004) and that Commission and Council did not react to these breaches with a stringent application of the rules, including possible sanctions.
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Is deeply worried by the fact that under the Excessive Deficit Procedure from SGP while France has not complied with the structural deficit targets of the Commission in 2013 and 2014, and while no assessment of the effective action has been carried out by the Commission for the whole correction period (2013-2015), it has again been granted additional years to correct its excessive deficit; calls on the Commission to ensure that Spain and Portugal take action to reach their structural deficit targets1. __________________ 1Briefing from the ECON governance support unit: "Implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact and the Opinions on the 2016 Draft Budgetary Plans".
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises the fact that the European Semester recommendations to MS have a similar responsiveness rate as the unilateral OECD recommendations (29% vs 30% in 2014), even though the compliance with the latter is based just on a voluntary basis; notes that, according to data, compliance in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic is systematically higher for OECD recommendations1. __________________ 1 Same as last one.
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Highlights that for MS which are part of the Euro area or participate in the Banking Union, transposition of the BRRD is indispensable for the Single Resolution Mechanism to function, as in many cases decisions of the Single Resolution Board must be implemented based on national law transposing the BRRD1. __________________ 1 As stated by the Commission press release from 22.10.2015 on the referral of six countries to the ECj for failing to transpose BRRD.
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Believes that it is the lack of proper exchange of information under the Directive on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation ("DAC") what led to the malpractices that were at the root of the LuxLeaks case and other abusive tax practices in other MS.
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Supports the creation of a subcommittee of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs to focus inside JURI to focus mores especially on monitoring the application of EU law in the Member States and the causes of non-compliance in systematic cases. A structured dialogue with the Commissioner in charge of Rule of Law in the EU should also be established with the same objective. The creation of a JURI sub-committee would be an opportunity to find the structural flaws behind the failures to apply the EU law and for the Parliament to do an even more thorough control of its implementation; monitoring the application of EU law in the Member States. reover, it would be possible to produce country-specific reports on those cases where a certain Member State shows a systematic non- compliance or late transposition of EU legislation. The creation of the subcommittee would be very positive to raise awareness on the importance for the EU that Member States comply with its legislation in order to maintain credibility in front of citizens and would allow the European Parliament to hold the Commission and Member States fully accountable.
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Believes that the European Commission needs to correct its democratic deficit in order to enhance its political legitimacy and fully enforce rule of law in the EU; calls the EU institutions and MS to make steps to ensure that the next President of the European Commission is directly elected by the European citizens in the 2019 European election.