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European Parliament 2014-2019

Committee on Constitutional Affairs

2014/2248(INI)

9.11.2016

AMENDMENTS 686 - 1039

Draft report Guy Verhofstadt (PE585.741v01-00)

Possible evolutions of and adjustments to the current institutional set-up of the European Union (2014/2248(INI))

Document 1: AM 1- 338 (PE 592.234) Document 2: AM 339 - 685 (PE 592.235) Document 3: AM 686 - 1039 (PE 592.348)

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Amendment 686 Paulo Rangel, Cristian Dan Preda, Constance Le Grip

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution Amendment

26. Calls for the suppression of Article deleted 126(10) TFEU in order that the European Court of Justice gain full jurisdiction over the operation of the EMU, as is appropriate in a democratic system of economic governance based on the rule of law and the principle of equality among Member States;

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Amendment 687 Burkhard Balz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 688 Morten Messerschmidt, Ulrike Trebesius

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 689 Esther de Lange

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 690 Eleftherios Synadinos

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution Amendment

26. Calls for the suppression of Article 26. Calls for the amendment of Article 126(10) TFEU in order that the European 126(10) TFEU in order that the European

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Court of Justice gain full jurisdiction over Court of Justice gain enlarged jurisdiction the operation of the EMU, as is appropriate over the operation of the EMU, as is in a democratic system of economic appropriate in a democratic system of governance based on the rule of law and economic governance based on the rule of the principle of equality among Member law and the principle of equality among States; Member States;

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Amendment 691 Luke Ming Flanagan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking deleted union to be completed as soon as possible on the basis of a fast-track timetable;

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Amendment 692 Paulo Rangel

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking deleted union to be completed as soon as possible on the basis of a fast-track timetable;

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Amendment 693 Martina Anderson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking deleted union to be completed as soon as possible on the basis of a fast-track timetable;

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Amendment 694 Bernd Lucke

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking deleted union to be completed as soon as possible on the basis of a fast-track timetable;

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Amendment 695 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking deleted union to be completed as soon as possible on the basis of a fast-track timetable;

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Amendment 696 Danuta Maria Hübner

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking union 27. Calls, finally, for the banking union to be completed as soon as possible on the to be completed as soon as possible with a basis of a fast-track timetable; common deposit insurance or reinsurance system and with a fiscal backstop that should be fiscally neutral over the medium term on the basis of a fast-track timetable; stresses that, in this process, further recourse to intergovernmental agreements should be avoided unless they are absolutely necessary;

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Amendment 697 Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking union 27. Calls, finally, for the banking union to be completed as soon as possible on the to be completed as soon as possible on the basis of a fast-track timetable; basis of a fast-track timetable; calls therefor in parallel for the strengthening of decentralised and bank-based finance by cleaning banks’ balance sheets from non-performing loans while putting an end to austerity, which dampens investment and credit demand;

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Amendment 698 Barbara Spinelli

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking union 27. Calls, finally, for the banking union

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to be completed as soon as possible on the to be completed as soon as possible on the basis of a fast-track timetable; basis of a fast-track timetable; nevertheless, calls for the strengthening of decentralised and bank-based finance by cleaning banks’ balance sheets from non-performing loans while putting an end to austerity, which dampens investment and credit demand;

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Amendment 699 Burkhard Balz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking union 27. Calls for the banking union to be to be completed as soon as possible on the completed step-by-step, and highlights basis of a fast-track timetable; that priority should at first be given to ensuring the full implementation and application of the existing banking union legislation and, thus, to the avoidance of moral hazard;

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Amendment 700 Pervenche Berès, Reimer Böge

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking union 27. Calls for the Banking union and the to be completed as soon as possible on the Capital market union to be completed as basis of a fast-track timetable; soon as possible, to ensure, risk reduction and a full financial market integration and among others, private risk sharing;

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Amendment 701 Ramon Tremosa i Balcells

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 702 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking union 27. Notes that the banking union is a to be completed as soon as possible on the mistake, and that completing it will still basis of a fast-track timetable; not be able to prevent further banking crises from occurring given the fact that the causes of the crisis lie in the failure of the euro itself;

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Amendment 703 Jo Leinen, Mercedes Bresso, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking union 27. Calls for the banking union and the to be completed as soon as possible on the Capital market union to be completed as

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basis of a fast-track timetable; soon as possible on the basis of a fast-track timetable;

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Amendment 704 Rainer Wieland

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking union 27. Calls, finally, for the banking union to be completed as soon as possible on the to be gradually completed; basis of a fast-track timeline;

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Amendment 705 David McAllister, Markus Pieper

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking union 27. Calls, finally, for the banking union to be completed as soon as possible on the to be gradually completed; basis of a fast-track timeline;

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Amendment 706 Esther de Lange

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking union 27. Calls, finally, for the banking union to be completed as soon as possible on the to be completed step-by-step;

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basis of a fast-track timetable;

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Amendment 707 Dariusz Rosati

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27. Calls, finally, for the banking union 27. Calls, finally, for the banking union to be completed as soon as possible on the to be completed as soon as possible on a basis of a fast-track timetable; step-by-step basis;

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Amendment 708 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27a. Believes that before completing the Banking Union, it is necessary to address the critical flaws in its current architecture, such as the exclusion of any common deposit insurance scheme, the absence of an effective national veto over the use of common financial resources, the fact that the Single Resolution Fund’s (SRF) pre-funded financial means amount to ‘only’ €55 billion, meaning that, in the event of a serious banking crisis, the SRF’s resources are unlikely to be sufficient (especially during the fund’s transitional period), the fact that, where the ESM will be allowed to intervene through its new direct recapitalisation instrument (DRI), this will be conditional on the implementation of the troika’s dreaded conditionalities, including where

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appropriate those related to the general economic policies of the ESM Member concerned; asks, furthermore, for a thorough review of the bail-in rule;

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Amendment 709 Pervenche Berès, Jutta Steinruck

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27a. Recalls that the EJC allows economic freedom and competition rules, following articles 45, 49, 56, 101 and 102 of the TFEU, to prevail over social and labor rights settled in soft laws and in articles 12, 21, 28, 31 and 34 of the CFREU; calls therefore for these rights to have primacy and, conflict between them solved, by adding the principal that economic freedom and competition rules can be limited when necessary in order to protect social and labor rights;

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Amendment 710 Jo Leinen, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Mercedes Bresso, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Pedro Silva Pereira, Pervenche Berès

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27a. Considers it necessary to lift the unanimity requirement for the harmonisation of certain taxes to allow the EU to set minimum tax rates and tax corridors with the aim of safeguarding the fair and smooth functioning of the

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internal market and to avoid harmful tax competition between Member States;

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Amendment 711 Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Jonás Fernández, Jo Leinen

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27a. Calls for the inclusion of the fight against tax fraud and avoidance and tax havens, as a fundamental objective of the European Union, and for the establishment of a European Tax Agency;

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Amendment 712 Max Andersson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27a. Underlines the importance of an EU functioning of both Eurozone and non-Eurozone countries;

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Amendment 713 Jo Leinen, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Mercedes Bresso, Pedro Silva Pereira, Pervenche Berès

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 b (new)

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

27b. Considers a strong social dimension indispensable for a comprehensive EMU and that Article 9 TFEU in its current form is not sufficient to guarantee a proper equilibrium between social rights and economic freedoms; calls therefore for these rights to be equally ranked and conflict between them solved by the principal that no right should be limited more than necessary in order to protect countervailing rights;

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Amendment 714 Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Jonás Fernández

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27b. Proposes the unification of the European Union external representation in the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the Bank for International Settlements;

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Amendment 715 Max Andersson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27b. Recognizes the fact that some Member States have derogations from the EMU and that others have chosen to

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remain outside the Eurozone for the foreseeable future and that this situation should be regularized;

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Amendment 716 Max Andersson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 c (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27c. Calls for strengthening the safeguards for non-Eurozone countries so as to ensure that the deepening of the EMU does not lead to creation of divisions within the EU; considers that the EU must ensure that it is functioning for all the Member States;

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Amendment 717 Max Andersson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 d (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27d. Underlines that non-Eurozone countries must be able to observe the meetings of the Eurogroup and be able to participate in discussions that concern the whole of the union;

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Amendment 718 Max Andersson

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 27 e (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

27e. Considers that there is a need for balance between Eurozone and non- Eurozone countries; notes that if there is an institutional strengthening of the Eurozone such as the creation of a joint position combining the roles of president of the Eurogroup and vice president of the Commission, the non-Eurozone countries also need to be strengthened by the creation of a post in the Commission with the mission to ensure that the rights of the non-Eurozone countries are properly considered;

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Amendment 719 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution Amendment

28. Recognises the geopolitical, deleted economic and environmental need for the creation of a genuine European energy union; notes that this will require the removal of the constraint that EU policy must not affect a state’s right to determine the conditions for exploiting its energy sources, its choice between different energy sources and the general structure of its energy supply (Article 194(2) TFEU);

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Amendment 720 Eleftherios Synadinos

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution Amendment

28. Recognises the geopolitical, 28. Recognises the geopolitical, economic and environmental need for the economic, energy and environmental need creation of a genuine European energy for the creation of a genuine European union; notes that this will require the energy union; removal of the constraint that EU policy must not affect a state’s right to determine the conditions for exploiting its energy sources, its choice between different energy sources and the general structure of its energy supply (Article 194(2) TFEU);

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Amendment 721 Luke Ming Flanagan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution Amendment

28. Recognises the geopolitical, 28. Recognises the geopolitical, economic and environmental need for the economic and environmental need for the creation of a genuine European energy creation of a genuine European energy union; notes that this will require the union; notes that this will require the removal of the constraint that EU policy removal of the constraint that EU policy must not affect a state’s right to determine must not affect a state’s right to determine the conditions for exploiting its energy the conditions for exploiting its energy sources, its choice between different sources (especially the right of individual energy sources and the general structure of Member States to ban certain types of its energy supply (Article 194(2) TFEU); energy searches such as fracking), its choice between different energy sources and the general structure of its energy supply (Article 194(2) TFEU); calls also for a fair return to Member States from any energy sources discovered within those states;

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Amendment 722 Jo Leinen, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Mercedes Bresso, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 723 Esther de Lange

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution Amendment

28. Recognises the geopolitical, 28. Recognises the geopolitical, economic and environmental need for the economic and environmental need creation of a genuine European energy Recognizes the geopolitical, economic and union; notes that this will require the environmental need for the creation of a removal of the constraint that EU policy genuine European energy union; notes that must not affect a state’s right to determine this involves promoting energy efficiency the conditions for exploiting its energy and renewable energy sources while sources, its choice between different respecting a state’s right to determine the energy sources and the general structure of conditions for exploiting its energy its energy supply (Article 194(2) TFEU); sources, its choice between different energy sources and the general structure of its energy supply (Article 194(2) TFEU);

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Amendment 724 Rainer Wieland

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution Amendment

28. Recognises the geopolitical, 28. Recognises the geopolitical, economic and environmental need for the economic and environmental need for the creation of a genuine European energy creation of a genuine European energy union; notes that this will require the union; notes that EU policy must not affect removal of the constraint that EU policy a state’s right to determine the conditions must not affect a state’s right to determine for exploiting its energy sources, its choice the conditions for exploiting its energy between different energy sources and the sources, its choice between different general structure of its energy supply energy sources and the general structure of (Article 194(2) TFEU); its energy supply (Article 194(2) TFEU);

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Amendment 725. Fabio Massimo Castaldo

Motion for a Resolution Paragraph 28

Motion for a Resolution Amendment

28. Recognises the geopolitical, 28. Recognises the need for a genuine economic and environmental need for the European energy union to be created for creation of a genuine European energy European citizens, which is based on union; notes that this will require the energy efficiency and renewable sources; removal of the constraint that EU policy notes that this could lead to a gradual must not affect a state’s right to determine elimination of national flexibility the conditions for exploiting its energy regarding the determination of the sources, its choice between different conditions of use of energy sources, with a energy sources and the general structure of view to achieving the objectives of its energy supply (Article 194(2) TFEU); increasing renewable sources in the general structure of a state’s energy supply (Article 194, paragraph 2, TFUE);

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Amendment 726 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution Amendment

28. Recognises the geopolitical, 28. Recognises the need for greater economic and environmental need for the convergence at regional level and creation of a genuine European energy cooperation between neighbouring states union; notes that this will require the in some areas of the production chain; removal of the constraint that EU policy notes that this must not affect a state’s right must not affect a state’s right to determine to determine the conditions for exploiting the conditions for exploiting its energy its energy sources, its choice between sources, its choice between different different energy sources and the general energy sources and the general structure of structure of its energy supply (Article its energy supply (Article 194(2) TFEU); 194(2) TFEU);

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Amendment 727 Paulo Rangel

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution Amendment

28. Recognises the geopolitical, 28. Recognises the geopolitical, economic and environmental need for the economic and environmental need for the creation of a genuine European energy creation of a genuine European energy union; notes that this will require the union; notes that this may require the removal of the constraint that EU policy removal of the constraint that EU policy must not affect a state’s right to determine must not affect a state’s right to determine the conditions for exploiting its energy the conditions for exploiting its energy sources, its choice between different sources, its choice between different energy sources and the general structure of energy sources and the general structure of its energy supply (Article 194(2) TFEU); its energy supply (Article 194(2) TFEU);

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Amendment 728 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution Amendment

28. Recognises the geopolitical, 28. Recognises the geopolitical, economic and environmental need for the economic and environmental need for the creation of a genuine European energy creation of a European energy union; union; notes that this will require the points out however that the Energy Union removal of the constraint that EU policy should be principally fostered through must not affect a state’s right to determine appropriate research and development the conditions for exploiting its energy investments in renewable energy sources, sources, its choice between different in line with the objectives of the EU as energy sources and the general structure listed, for example, in article 3 TEU and of its energy supply (Article 194(2) 37 of the EU Charter of fundamental TFEU); rights;

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Amendment 729 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

28a. Welcomes the outcomes of 2015 Paris Climate Conference on setting out standards for reducing global emissions; stresses, however, that environmental protection shall become a short-term top priority for the EU in the light of the current environmental degradation, and shall be mainstreamed in all policies and actions of the Union; moreover suggests, in order to better attain the above- mentioned objectives, to modify the Treaties by introducing a specific reference to the Right of Nature, as developed, for instance, in the Constitution of Ecuador;

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Amendment 730 Jo Leinen, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Mercedes Bresso, Pedro Silva Pereira, Pervenche Berès

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

28a. Underlines that climate change is one of the key global challenges facing the EU; stresses the need for the full ratification and implementation of the Paris Agreement and the adaptation of binding EU climate targets and actions accordingly; notes that the exclusive competence of the Member States to determine the conditions for exploiting its energy sources, its choice between different energy sources and the general structure of its energy supply (Article 194(2) TFEU) may undermine the successful implementation of common energy policies;

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Amendment 731 Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 28 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

28a. Stresses that the development of new and renewable energy resources should be incorporated into the Treaties as the prime objective for all Member States;

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Amendment 732 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29. Notes that the Treaties provide 29. Notes that the Treaties provide ample means to set up a humane, well- ample means to set up a human rights- functioning migration management system based, well-functioning migration and including a European Border and Coast refugees policy rooted on article 80 TFEU Guard; believes, however, that the and on the principles of solidarity, non- Treaties, particularly Article 79(5) TFEU, discrimination, non-refoulement, and on are too restrictive regarding other aspects proactive search and rescue in line with of migration, especially on the the obligations deriving from the Geneva establishment of a genuine European legal Convention, the Charter of fundamental migration system; insists that democratic rights of the European Union, the scrutiny by Parliament is needed on the International Convention for the Safety of implementation of border control, asylum Life at Sea and the International and migration policies, and that the Convention on Maritime Search and safeguarding of national security cannot be Rescue, while considering, at the same used as a pretext to circumvent European time, the establishment of safe and legal action; avenues for refugees fleeing from wars, dictatorships and environmentally-caused disasters; believes, however, that the Treaties, particularly Article 79(5) TFEU, are too restrictive regarding other aspects of migration, especially on the establishment of a genuine European legal migration system; insists that democratic control and co-decision by the Parliament is needed on the implementation of border control, asylum and migration policies, and that the safeguarding of national security cannot be used as a pretext to circumvent European action as far as asylum and inclusion policies are concerned;

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Amendment 733. Fabio Massimo Castaldo, Laura Ferrara

Motion for a Resolution Paragraph 29

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Motion for a Resolution Amendment

29. Notes that the Treaties provide 29. Notes that the Treaties provide ample means to set up a humane, well- ample means to set up a well-functioning functioning migration management system migration management system and including a European Border and Coast compliant with human rights including a Guard; believes however, that the Treaties, European Border and Coast Guard; particularly Article 79(5) TFEU, are too believes, however, that the Treaties, restrictive regarding other aspects of particularly Article 79(5) TFEU, are too migration, especially on the establishment restrictive regarding other aspects of of a genuine European legal migration migration, especially on the establishment system; insists that democratic scrutiny by of a genuine European legal migration Parliament is needed on the system; insists that democratic scrutiny by implementation of border control, asylum Parliament is needed on the and migration policies, and that the implementation of border control, asylum safeguarding of national security cannot be and migration policies, and that the used as a pretext to circumvent European safeguarding of national security cannot be action; used as a pretext to circumvent European action; considers, however, that any intervention in this field must be preceded by a review of the Dublin system so as to achieve effective responsibility and equal distribution between Member States, giving full and concrete application of Article 80 TFEU and which also imposes a resettlement mechanism for the migration flow within the Union, so as not to further aggravate the situation of the Member States which are located on the borders of the migration flow;

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Amendment 734 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29. Notes that the Treaties provide 29. Insists that democratic scrutiny by ample means to set up a humane, well- Parliament is needed on the functioning migration management implementation of border control, asylum system including a European Border and and migration policies, and that the Coast Guard; believes, however, that the safeguarding of national security can be

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Treaties, particularly Article 79(5) TFEU, used as a pretext to circumvent European are too restrictive regarding other aspects action; of migration, especially on the establishment of a genuine European legal migration system; insists that democratic scrutiny by Parliament is needed on the implementation of border control, asylum and migration policies, and that the safeguarding of national security cannot be used as a pretext to circumvent European action;

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Amendment 735 Eleftherios Synadinos

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29. Notes that the Treaties provide 29. Notes that the Treaties provide ample means to set up a humane, well- ample means to set up a humane, well- functioning migration management system functioning migration management system including a European Border and Coast including a European Border and Coast Guard; believes, however, that the Guard; believes that Article 79(5) TFEU is Treaties, particularly Article 79(5) TFEU, not an impediment to the common are too restrictive regarding other aspects European action, as the choice by a of migration, especially on the Member State of the volume of third- establishment of a genuine European country nationals admitted is an integral legal migration system; insists that part of national sovereignty; democratic scrutiny by Parliament is needed on the implementation of border control, asylum and migration policies, and that the safeguarding of national security cannot be used as a pretext to circumvent European action;

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Amendment 736 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Ulrike Trebesius

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29. Notes that the Treaties provide 29. Notes that the Treaties provide ample means to set up a humane, well- ample means to set up a humane, well- functioning migration management system functioning migration management system including a European Border and Coast including a European Border and Coast Guard; believes, however, that the Guard; believes that forms of solidarity in Treaties, particularly Article 79(5) TFEU, this field require mutual trust between the are too restrictive regarding other aspects Union and the Member States, which of migration, especially on the should remain competent in the issues of establishment of a genuine European asylum and immigration policies; legal migration system; insists that democratic scrutiny by Parliament is needed on the implementation of border control, asylum and migration policies, and that the safeguarding of national security cannot be used as a pretext to circumvent European action;

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Amendment 737 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29. Notes that the Treaties provide 29. Notes that the Treaties provide ample means to set up a humane, well- ample means to set up a humane, well- functioning migration management system functioning migration management system including a European Border and Coast including a European Border and Coast Guard; believes, however, that the Guard; stresses that Article 79 should not Treaties, particularly Article 79 expressly affect the right of the Member (5) TFEU, are too restrictive regarding States to determine the volumes of other aspects of migration, especially on admission of third-country nationals the establishment of a genuine European coming from third countries to their legal migration system; insists that territory in order to seek work in democratic scrutiny by Parliament is accordance with Article 79(5) of the needed on the implementation of border Treaty; control, asylum and migration policies, and that the safeguarding of national security cannot be used as a pretext to

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circumvent European action;

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Amendment 738 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29. Notes that the Treaties provide 29. Notes that the Treaties provide ample means to set up a humane, well- ample means to set up a humane, fair functioning migration management system migration management system; considers including a European Border and Coast it necessary to set up a pan-European Guard; believes, however, that the system of distribution of immigrants Treaties, particularly Article 79(5) TFEU, similar to the one applying to refugees; are too restrictive regarding other aspects believes that the distribution of of migration, especially on the immigrants under this system should take establishment of a genuine European account of the population, per capita legal migration system; insists that GDP, the unemployment rate as well as democratic scrutiny by Parliament is the territorial extent and the growth of the needed on the implementation of border economy of each Member State; control, asylum and migration policies, and that the safeguarding of national security cannot be used as a pretext to circumvent European action;

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Amendment 739 Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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restrictive regarding other aspects of restrictive regarding other aspects of migration, especially on the establishment migration, especially on the establishment of a genuine European legal migration of a genuine European legal migration system; insists that democratic scrutiny by system; underlines that the future EU Parliament is needed on the migration system must synergize with its implementation of border control, asylum foreign aid, its foreign policy, and unify and migration policies, and that the national criteria for granting asylum as safeguarding of national security cannot be well as access to the labour market; insists used as a pretext to circumvent European that democratic scrutiny by Parliament is action; needed on the implementation of border control, asylum and migration policies, and that the safeguarding of national security cannot be used as a pretext to circumvent European action;

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Amendment 740 Martina Anderson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29. Notes that the Treaties provide 29. Believes in the parliamentary ample means to set up a humane, well- scrutiny of migration, asylum and refugee functioning migration management systems to ensure that they are humane system including a European Border and and comply with all human rights laws Coast Guard; believes, however, that the and existing European law; believes that Treaties, particularly Article 79(5) TFEU, this humanitarian crisis can only be are too restrictive regarding other aspects resolved with humanitarian solutions, of migration, especially on the including, but not limited to, safe passage establishment of a genuine European legal for refugees, the proliferation of migration system; insists that democratic humanitarian visas, family and scrutiny by Parliament is needed on the vulnerable persons relocation initiatives implementation of border control, asylum and collective European responsibility; and migration policies, and that the notes that certain Member States which safeguarding of national security cannot have seen a rise in far right political be used as a pretext to circumvent parties, xenophobia, and anti-immigrant European action; sentiment are often the very states that have destabilised the countries which these refugees are coming from, either through military action or through the supply of arms and munitions to conflict areas;

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Amendment 741 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29. Notes that the Treaties provide 29. Notes that the Treaties provide ample means to set up a humane, well- ample means to set up a humane, well- functioning migration management system functioning migration management system including a European Border and Coast including a European Border and Coast Guard; believes, however, that the Treaties, Guard; believes, however, that the Treaties, particularly Article 79(5) TFEU, are too particularly Article 79(5) TFEU, are too restrictive regarding other aspects of restrictive regarding other aspects of migration, especially on the establishment migration, especially on the establishment of a genuine European legal migration of a genuine European legal migration system; insists that democratic scrutiny by system; insists that democratic scrutiny by Parliament is needed on the Parliament is needed on the implementation of border control, asylum implementation of border control, asylum and migration policies, and that the and migration policies; safeguarding of national security cannot be used as a pretext to circumvent European action;

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Amendment 742 Pascal Durand on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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migration, especially on the establishment migration, especially on the establishment of a genuine European legal migration of a genuine European legal migration system; insists that democratic scrutiny by system; insists that democratic scrutiny by Parliament is needed on the Parliament is needed on the implementation of border control, asylum implementation of border control, and migration policies, and that the agreements with third countries including safeguarding of national security cannot be cooperation on readmission and return, used as a pretext to circumvent European asylum and migration policies, and that the action; safeguarding of national security cannot be used as a pretext to circumvent European action;

Or. en

Amendment 743 Morten Messerschmidt, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29. Notes that the Treaties provide 29. Recalls that mass immigration to ample means to set up a humane, well- the European Union undermines the functioning migration management system Schengen agreements which now need including a European Border and Coast urgent and serious reform ; notes that the Guard; believes, however, that the Treaties should have provided ample Treaties, particularly Article 79(5) TFEU, means to set up a humane, well-functioning are too restrictive regarding other aspects migration management system including a of migration, especially on the European Border and Coast Guard, establishment of a genuine European believes however that the right of asylum legal migration system; insists that and the right to accept refugees should be democratic scrutiny by Parliament is solely the competence of the Member needed on the implementation of border States and highlighting that if one doesn’t control, asylum and migration policies, protect its own borders nobody else will ; and that the safeguarding of national security cannot be used as a pretext to circumvent European action;

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Amendment 744 Jo Leinen, Enrique Guerrero Salom, Mercedes Bresso, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Pedro Silva Pereira, Pervenche Berès

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29. Notes that the Treaties provide 29. Notes that the Treaties provide ample means to set up a humane, well- ample means to set up a humane, well- functioning migration management system functioning migration management and including a European Border and Coast asylum system including a European Guard; believes, however, that the Treaties, Border and Coast Guard and welcomes the particularly Article 79(5) TFEU, are too progress in this regards; believes, restrictive regarding other aspects of however, that the Treaties, particularly migration, especially on the establishment Article 79(5) TFEU, are too restrictive of a genuine European legal migration regarding other aspects of migration, system; insists that democratic scrutiny by especially on the establishment of a Parliament is needed on the genuine European legal migration system; implementation of border control, asylum insists that democratic scrutiny by and migration policies, and that the Parliament is needed on the safeguarding of national security cannot be implementation of border control, asylum used as a pretext to circumvent European and migration policies, and that the action; safeguarding of national interests cannot be used as a pretext to circumvent European action;

Or. en

Amendment 745 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29a. Points out that further steps are necessary to ensure that the Common European Asylum System becomes a truly uniform system; calls on Member States to harmonize their legislation and practices with regards to the standards as to who qualifies as a beneficiary of international protection, guarantees on international protection procedures and reception conditions following the jurisprudence of the ECtHR and CJUE and established best practices in fellow Member States; stresses that a new

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asylum and migration framework should build upon fundamental rights of the migrant;

Or. en

Amendment 746 Izaskun Bilbao Barandica

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29a. Points out the need to include in the drawing up of asylum policies the local and regional authorities managing services which should offer the first response to the humanitarian crises caused by immigration;

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Amendment 747 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29a. Takes the view that the European Union urgently needs an effective external border control instrument, which is a pre-condition for the survival of the Schengen area;

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Amendment 748 Izaskun Bilbao Barandica

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29b. Takes the view that there is a need to establish a minimum framework of benefits and entitlements to give content to the European social mode, and it should cover social benefits, social security systems, education, health, unemployment benefits, income guarantees and equality policies; stresses that the dedicated programmes must avoid social breakdown and inequality and should be considered an investment and not an expense; points out that establishing these minimums is the best tool for combatting social dumping in the EU;

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Amendment 749 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29b. Reaffirms that the Union must adopt a long-term strategy to address the root causes of migration in third countries (persecution, conflict, generalised violence, climate change and natural disasters or extreme poverty) and create safe and regular channels to access the EU;

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Amendment 750 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 29 c (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

29c. Furthermore, considers it necessary to proceed to a formal recognition of the environmental refugees, as those who are obliged to leave their home countries due to environmental causes, hence to guarantee them full access to EU asylum procedures;

Or. en

Amendment 751 Max Andersson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution Amendment

30. Considers it necessary, in view of deleted the intensity of the terrorist threat, to upgrade the EU’s capacities in the fight against terrorism and international organised crime; stresses that, beyond strengthening coordination between the competent authorities and agencies in the Member States, Europol and Eurojust must receive genuine investigation and prosecution competences and capabilities;

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Amendment 752 Izaskun Bilbao Barandica

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

30. Considers it necessary, in view of 30. Points out that the concept of the intensity of the terrorist threat, to ‘national security’ should be revised, in upgrade the EU’s capacities in the fight view of the fact that the intensity of the against terrorism and international terrorist threat has demonstrated that it is organised crime; stresses that, beyond ineffective when it comes to addressing strengthening coordination between the this problem which can only be addressed competent authorities and agencies in the by means of a proper European Member States, Europol and Eurojust must intelligence service; calls for the EU’s receive genuine investigation and capacities in the fight against terrorism and prosecution competences and capabilities; international organised crime to be upgraded by following that course; stresses that to develop that coordinated action, the first step needs to be taken in the Member States themselves, which should carry out this work in all the bodies and agencies with the capacity to prevent, investigate and eradicate terrorist crimes and carry out citizen security work; That is the only way to achieve proper and effective coordination between the competent authorities and agencies in the Member States and to enable Europol and Eurojust to receive genuine investigation and prosecution competences and capabilities that will provide the foundations for a proper European intelligence system;

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Amendment 753 Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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competent authorities and agencies in the key areas such as vigilance, intelligence Member States, Europol and Eurojust must and justice in order to adapt to the new receive genuine investigation and and future non-conventional threats; prosecution competences and capabilities; stresses that, beyond strengthening coordination between the competent authorities and agencies in the Member States, Europol and Eurojust must receive genuine investigation and prosecution competences and capabilities; considers it necessary to include the need to improve cybernetic security of the Member States;

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Amendment 754 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution Amendment

30. Considers it necessary, in view of 30. Considers it necessary, in view of the intensity of the terrorist threat, to the intensity of the terrorist threat, to upgrade the EU’s capacities in the fight upgrade the EU’s capacities in the fight against terrorism and international against terrorism and international organised crime; stresses that, beyond organised crime; stresses that, beyond strengthening coordination between the strengthening coordination between the competent authorities and agencies in the competent authorities and agencies in the Member States, Europol and Eurojust must Member States, Europol and Eurojust must receive genuine investigation and receive genuine investigation and prosecution competences and capabilities; prosecution competences and capabilities; points out, however, that the fight against terrorism shall not become a justification for lowering down existing human rights standards, including protection of privacy in internet and encryption of data;

Or. en

Amendment 755. Fabio Massimo Castaldo, Laura Ferrara

Motion for a Resolution Paragraph 30

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Motion for a Resolution Amendment

30. Considers it necessary, in view of 30. Considers it necessary, in view of the intensity of the terrorist threat, to the intensity of the terrorist threat, to upgrade the EU’s capacities in the fight upgrade the EU’s capacities in the fight against terrorism and international against terrorism and international organised crime; stresses that, beyond organised crime; stresses that, beyond strengthening coordination between the strengthening coordination between the competent authorities and agencies in the competent authorities and agencies in the Member States, Europol and Eurojust must Member States, Europol and Eurojust must receive genuine investigation and receive genuine investigation and prosecution competences and capabilities; prosecution competences and capabilities as well as give effect to the full functioning of the mechanisms for the exchange of information between Member States, which must fully comply with the principle of helpfulness;

Or. it

Amendment 756 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution Amendment

30. Considers it necessary, in view of 30. Considers it necessary, in view of the intensity of the terrorist threat, to the intensity of the terrorist threat, to upgrade the EU’s capacities in the fight upgrade the capacities of the Member against terrorism and international States in the fight against terrorism and organised crime; stresses that, beyond international organised crime; stresses that strengthening coordination between the coordination between the competent competent authorities and agencies in the authorities and agencies in the Member Member States, Europol and Eurojust States must be strengthened; must receive genuine investigation and prosecution competences and capabilities;

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Amendment 757 Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Jo Leinen

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution Amendment

30. Considers it necessary, in view of 30. Considers it necessary, in view of the intensity of the terrorist threat, to the intensity of the terrorist threat, to upgrade the EU’s capacities in the fight upgrade the EU’s capacities in the fight against terrorism and international against terrorism and international organised crime; stresses that, beyond organised crime; stresses that, beyond strengthening coordination between the strengthening coordination between the competent authorities and agencies in the competent authorities and agencies in the Member States, Europol and Eurojust must Member States, Europol and Eurojust must receive genuine investigation and receive genuine investigation and prosecution competences and capabilities; prosecution competences and capabilities, by its transformation in a true European Bureau of Investigation and Counter- Terrorism;

Or. en

Amendment 758 Martina Anderson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution Amendment

30. Considers it necessary, in view of 30. Considers defence to be a national, the intensity of the terrorist threat, to not an EU responsibility; Member States upgrade the EU’s capacities in the fight must retain the authority to decide against terrorism and international whether they wish to involve themselves in organised crime; stresses that, beyond a particular EU security initiative; the strengthening coordination between the wishes of Member States, particularly competent authorities and agencies in the those in neutral countries must be Member States, Europol and Eurojust respected; must receive genuine investigation and prosecution competences and capabilities;

Or. en

Amendment 759 Pascal Durand on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution Amendment

30. Considers it necessary, in view of 30. Considers it necessary, in view of the intensity of the terrorist threat, to the intensity of the terrorist threat, to upgrade the EU’s capacities in the fight upgrade the EU’s capacities in the fight against terrorism and international against terrorism and international organised crime; stresses that, beyond organised crime; stresses that, beyond strengthening coordination between the strengthening coordination between the competent authorities and agencies in the competent authorities and agencies in the Member States, Europol and Eurojust must Member States, Europol and Eurojust must receive genuine investigation and receive genuine investigation and prosecution competences and capabilities; prosecution competences and capabilities, while being subject to stronger parliamentary scrutiny;

Or. en

Amendment 760 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution Amendment

30. Considers it necessary, in view of 30. Considers it necessary, in view of the intensity of the terrorist threat, to the intensity of the terrorist threat, to upgrade the EU’s capacities in the fight upgrade the EU’s capacities in the fight against terrorism and international against terrorism and international organised crime; stresses that, beyond organised crime; stresses that it is strengthening coordination between the necessary to enhance coordination competent authorities and agencies in the between the competent authorities in the Member States, Europol and Eurojust must Member States through the activities receive genuine investigation and within Europol and Eurojust agencies; prosecution competences and capabilities;

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Amendment 761 Gérard Deprez, Guy Verhofstadt

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

30a. Concludes that the various terrorist attacks on European soil have proven that national security should be better ensured if it wasn’t an exclusive competence of the member states; proposes therefore to amend Article 4 TEU to make the national security a shared competence between EU and member states in order to, among others, facilitate the creation of a European intelligence service, possibly within Europol; stipulates that in the meantime in accordance with Article 73 TFEU nothing prevents the Member States to create these forms of cooperation between their services;

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Amendment 762 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

30a. Is of the opinion that external military interventions as well as war rhetoric are both counterproductive and dangerous in the fight against terrorism; emphasises, in this respect, the need to adopt an holistic approach by accompanying the necessary internal security measures with actions in the fields of education, social integration and urban-planning, especially in the suburbs;

Or. en

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Amendment 763 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

30a. Draws attention to the fact that any instruments that result in Member State sovereignty being eroded will be ineffective;

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Amendment 764 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Subheading 5

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Strengthening our foreign policy Realigning international relations

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Amendment 765 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Subheading 5

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Strengthening our foreign policy For an ancillary foreign policy

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Amendment 766 Luke Ming Flanagan

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31

Motion for a resolution Amendment

31. Regrets, as stated in its resolution deleted of XXXXX on the improvement of the functioning of the European Union building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty, that the EU has not made more progress in developing its capacity to agree and to implement a common foreign and security policy (CFSP); notes that its efforts in initiating a common security and defence policy have not been particularly successful;

Or. en

Amendment 767 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31

Motion for a resolution Amendment

31. Regrets, as stated in its resolution 31. Notes that its efforts in initiating a of XXXXX on the improvement of the common security and defence policy have functioning of the European Union not been particularly successful; building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty, that the EU has not made more progress in developing its capacity to agree and to implement a common foreign and security policy (CFSP); notes that its efforts in initiating a common security and defence policy have not been particularly successful;

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Amendment 768 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31

Motion for a resolution Amendment

31. Regrets, as stated in its resolution 31. Notes, as stated in its resolution of of XXXXX on the improvement of the XXXXX on the improvement of the functioning of the European Union functioning of the European Union building on the potential of the Lisbon building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty, that the EU has not made more Treaty, that the EU has not made any progress in developing its capacity to agree progress in developing its capacity to agree and to implement a common foreign and and to implement a common foreign and security policy (CFSP); notes that its security policy (CFSP); recommends the efforts in initiating a common security strengthening of the role of the and defence policy have not been Community policies in the development of particularly successful; a coherent external action of the EU and a corresponding CFSP through concrete proposals on how the trade, development, climate or agricultural and fisheries policies have to contribute to implement the foreign policy objectives as stipulated in the Treaty; calls on the Commission to submit proposals to the European Parliament;;

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Amendment 769. Fabio Massimo Castaldo

Motion for a Resolution Paragraph 31

Motion for a Resolution Amendment

31. Regrets, as stated in its resolution 31. Regrets, as stated in its resolution of XXXXX on the improvement of the of XXXXX on the improvement of the functioning of the European Union functioning of the European Union building on the potential of the Lisbon building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty, that the EU has not made more Treaty, that the EU has not made more progress in developing its capacity to agree progress in developing its capacity to agree and to implement a common foreign and and to implement a common foreign and security policy (CFSP); notes that its security policy (CFSP); notes that its efforts in initiating a common security and efforts in initiating a common security and defence policy have not been particularly defence policy have not been particularly successful; successful also because of the gradual establishment of the subgroups of the

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Member States within the council which have policy priorities which often conflict, thereby preventing not only the pursuit, but also the identification of a genuinely common interest;

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Amendment 770 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31

Motion for a resolution Amendment

31. Regrets, as stated in its resolution 31. Notes that efforts in initiating a of XXXXX on the improvement of the common security and defence policy have functioning of the European Union not been particularly successful, and hence building on the potential of the Lisbon calls for jurisdiction over foreign policy to Treaty, that the EU has not made more be devolved to the Member States; progress in developing its capacity to agree and to implement a common foreign and security policy (CFSP); notes that its efforts in initiating a common security and defence policy have not been particularly successful;

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Amendment 771 Jo Leinen, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Enrique Guerrero Salom, Mercedes Bresso, Pedro Silva Pereira, Pervenche Berès

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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and to implement a common foreign and and to implement a common foreign and security policy (CFSP); notes that its security policy (CFSP); notes that its efforts in initiating a common security and efforts in initiating a common security and defence policy have not been particularly defence policy have not been particularly successful; successful, especially with regards to the sharing of costs and responsibilities;

Or. en

Amendment 772 Martina Anderson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31

Motion for a resolution Amendment

31. Regrets, as stated in its resolution 31. Regrets, that some Member States of XXXXX on the improvement of the and MEPs as well as those in the functioning of the European Union Commission cannot accept that the building on the potential of the Lisbon Member States should retain the authority Treaty, that the EU has not made more to decide whether they wish to involve progress in developing its capacity to themselves in particular EU security agree and to implement a common initiatives, and are instead engaged in a foreign and security policy (CFSP); notes profoundly anti-European project of that its efforts in initiating a common pressure, coercion, and fear mongering security and defence policy have not been on the issue; particularly successful;

Or. en

Amendment 773 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31

Motion for a resolution Amendment

31. Regrets, as stated in its resolution 31. Relieved, in contrast to resolution of XXXXX on the improvement of the of XXXXX on the improvement of the functioning of the European Union functioning of the European Union building on the potential of the Lisbon building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty, that the EU has not made more Treaty, that the EU has not made more progress in developing its capacity to agree progress in developing its capacity to agree

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Amendment 774 Paulo Rangel, Cristian Dan Preda, Viviane Reding, Alain Lamassoure

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

31a. Notes that only by enhancing the Common Foreign and Security Policy can the EU bring credible answers to the new security threats and challenges, fighting terrorism, bringing peace, stability and order to its neighbourhood;

Or. en

Amendment 775 Dennis de Jong

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 31 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

31a. Stresses that there is no need for an EU minister of Foreign Affairs and disapproves of the use of a qualified majority vote with regard to foreign policy in the Council;

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Amendment 776 Luke Ming Flanagan

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution Amendment

32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating deleted that more progress could and should be made under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, including as regards use of the provisions to act by qualified majority voting, that the Vice-President / High Representative should be named EU Foreign Minister and be supported in her efforts to become the main external representative of the European Union in international fora, not least at the level of the UN; considers it essential that, owing to the broad and heavy workload, the Foreign Minister should be able to appoint political deputies; proposes a review of the functionality of the current European External Action Service;

Or. en

Amendment 777 Martina Anderson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Foreign Minister should be able to appoint political deputies; proposes a review of the functionality of the current European External Action Service;

Or. en

Amendment 778 Morten Messerschmidt, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 779 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution Amendment

32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating 32. proposes a review of the that more progress could and should be functionality of the current European

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made under the terms of the Lisbon External Action Service; Treaty, including as regards use of the provisions to act by qualified majority voting, that the Vice-President / High Representative should be named EU Foreign Minister and be supported in her efforts to become the main external representative of the European Union in international fora, not least at the level of the UN; considers it essential that, owing to the broad and heavy workload, the Foreign Minister should be able to appoint political deputies; proposes a review of the functionality of the current European External Action Service;

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Amendment 780 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution Amendment

32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating 32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating that more progress could and should be that that external policy is exercised by the made under the terms of the Lisbon national authorities; Treaty, including as regards use of the provisions to act by qualified majority voting, that the Vice-President / High Representative should be named EU Foreign Minister and be supported in her efforts to become the main external representative of the European Union in international fora, not least at the level of the UN; considers it essential that, owing to the broad and heavy workload, the Foreign Minister should be able to appoint political deputies; proposes a review of the functionality of the current European External Action Service;

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Amendment 781 Barbara Spinelli

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution Amendment

32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating 32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating that more progress could and should be that more progress could and should be made under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, made under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, including as regards use of the provisions that the Vice-President / High to act by qualified majority voting, that the Representative should be supported in Vice-President / High Representative her/his efforts to become the main external should be named EU Foreign Minister representative of the European Union in and be supported in her efforts to become international fora, not least at the level of the main external representative of the the UN; considers it essential that, owing European Union in international fora, not to the broad and heavy workload, the least at the level of the UN; considers it European External Action Service be essential that, owing to the broad and equipped with the necessary budgetary heavy workload, the Foreign Minister resources; should be able to appoint political deputies; proposes a review of the functionality of the current European External Action Service;

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Amendment 782. Fabio Massimo Castaldo

Motion for a Resolution Paragraph 32

Motion for a Resolution Amendment

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essential that, owing to the broad and the UN; considers it essential that, owing heavy workload, the Foreign Minister to the broad and heavy workload, the should be able to appoint political deputies; Foreign Minister should be able to appoint proposes a review of the functionality of political deputies that are still fully subject the current European External Action to the law of code of conduct applicable to Service; EU commissioners; proposes a review of the functionality of the current European External Action Service;

Or. it

Amendment 783 Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution Amendment

32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating 32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating that more progress could and should be that more progress could and should be made under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, made under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, including as regards use of the provisions including as regards use of the provisions to act by qualified majority voting, that the to act by qualified majority voting, that the Vice-President / High Representative Vice-President / High Representative should be named EU Foreign Minister and should be named EU Foreign Minister and be supported in her efforts to become the be supported in her efforts to become the main external representative of the main external representative of the European Union in international fora, not European Union in international fora, not least at the level of the UN; considers it least at the level of the UN; considers it essential that, owing to the broad and essential that, owing to the broad and heavy workload, the Foreign Minister heavy workload, the Foreign Minister should be able to appoint political deputies; should be able to appoint political deputies; proposes a review of the functionality of proposes a review of the functionality of the current European External Action the current European External Action Service; Service, with new and better financed instruments of action;

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Amendment 784 Jo Leinen, Mercedes Bresso, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating 32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating that more progress could and should be that more progress could and should be made under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, made under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, including as regards use of the provisions including as regards use of the provisions to act by qualified majority voting, that the to act by qualified majority voting and that Vice-President / High Representative the Vice-President / High Representative should be named EU Foreign Minister and should be named EU Foreign Minister and be supported in her efforts to become the be supported in her efforts to become the main external representative of the main external representative of the European Union in international fora, not European Union in international fora, not least at the level of the UN; considers it least at the level of the UN; considers that essential that, owing to the broad and the Foreign Minister should be able to heavy workload, the Foreign Minister appoint political deputies; proposes a should be able to appoint political deputies; review of the functionality of the current proposes a review of the functionality of European External Action Service; the current European External Action Service;

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Amendment 785 Eleftherios Synadinos

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution Amendment

32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating 32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating that more progress could and should be that more progress could and should be made under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, made under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, including as regards use of the provisions including as regards use of the provisions to act by qualified majority voting, that the to act by qualified majority voting, that the Vice-President / High Representative Vice-President / High Representative should be named EU Foreign Minister could, under conditions, become the main and be supported in her efforts to become external representative of the European the main external representative of the Union in international fora, not least at the European Union in international fora, not level of the UN; considers it essential that, least at the level of the UN; considers it owing to the broad and heavy workload, essential that, owing to the broad and the Vice-President / High Representative heavy workload, the Foreign Minister should be able to appoint political deputies, should be able to appoint political deputies; subject to the final approval of the proposes a review of the functionality of Parliament; proposes a review of the the current European External Action functionality of the current European

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Service; External Action Service;

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Amendment 786 Paulo Rangel, Alain Lamassoure

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution Amendment

32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating 32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating that more progress could and should be that more progress could and should be made under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, made under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, including as regards use of the provisions including as regards use of the provisions to act by qualified majority voting, that the to act by qualified majority voting, that the Vice-President / High Representative Vice-President / High Representative should be named EU Foreign Minister and should be named EU Foreign Minister and be supported in her efforts to become the be supported in her efforts to become the main external representative of the main external representative of the European Union in international fora, not European Union in international fora, not least at the level of the UN; considers it least at the level of the UN; considers that, essential that, owing to the broad and owing to the broad and heavy workload, heavy workload, the Foreign Minister the Foreign Minister could be able to should be able to appoint political appoint political deputies; proposes a deputies; proposes a review of the review of the functionality of the current functionality of the current European European External Action Service; External Action Service;

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Amendment 787 Rainer Wieland

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Vice-President / High Representative Vice-President / High Representative should be named EU Foreign Minister and should be named EU Foreign Minister and be supported in her efforts to become the be supported in her efforts to become the main external representative of the main external representative of the European Union in international fora, not European Union in international fora, not least at the level of the UN; considers it least at the level of the UN; considers it essential that, owing to the broad and essential that, owing to the broad and heavy workload, the Foreign Minister heavy workload, the Foreign Minister should be able to appoint political deputies; should be able to appoint political deputies; proposes a review of the functionality of proposes a review of the functionality of the current European External Action the current European External Action Service; Service;

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Amendment 788 David McAllister, Markus Pieper

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution Amendment

32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating 32. Is of the opinion, while reiterating that more progress could and should be that more progress could and should be made under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, made under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, including as regards use of the provisions including as regards use of the provisions to act by qualified majority voting, that the to act by qualified majority voting, that the Vice-President / High Representative Vice-President / High Representative should be named EU Foreign Minister and should be named EU Foreign Minister and be supported in her efforts to become the be supported in her efforts to become the main external representative of the main external representative of the European Union in international fora, not European Union in international fora, not least at the level of the UN; considers it least at the level of the UN; considers it essential that, owing to the broad and essential that, owing to the broad and heavy workload, the Foreign Minister heavy workload, the Foreign Minister should be able to appoint political deputies; should be able to appoint political deputies; proposes a review of the functionality of proposes a review of the functionality of the current European External Action the current European External Action Service; Service;

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Amendment 789 Diane James

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33. Stresses that for the Union to deleted strengthen the defence of the EU territory, as a pillar within NATO, which remains the cornerstone of the European security architecture, and to enable the Union to act autonomously in operations abroad, mainly with a view to stabilising its neighbourhood, the Treaties should provide for the possibility of establishing a European defence union;

Or. en

Amendment 790 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 791 Luke Ming Flanagan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 792 Paulo Rangel, Cristian Dan Preda, Viviane Reding, Alain Lamassoure

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33. Stresses that for the Union to 33. Calls for a swift establishment of a strengthen the defence of the EU territory, European Defence Union, that shall be as a pillar within NATO, which remains headed by the Vice-president of the the cornerstone of the European security Commission/High Representative, and architecture, and to enable the Union to thus improve the EU’s role as guarantor act autonomously in operations abroad, of its own defence and as a security mainly with a view to stabilising its provider. Aside from the EEAS, a DG neighbourhood, the Treaties should Defence taking care of the internal provide for the possibility of establishing a aspects of the Common Security and European defence union; defence Policy shall be established; calls for the establishment of a defence ministerial Council and the introduction of a bi-annual thematic dialogue on CSDP in the European Council meetings to keep defence and security at the top of the agenda; The European Defence Union needs to strengthen our external actions and engagements either in the UN, NATO or coalitions of the willing;

Or. en

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Amendment 793. Fabio Massimo Castaldo

Motion for a Resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a Resolution Amendment

33. Stresses that for the Union to 33. Stresses that for the Union to strengthen the defence of the EU territory, strengthen its own capacity for the defence as a pillar within NATO, which remains of the EU territory, also in view of a the cornerstone of the European security rebalance within the EU-NATO strategic architecture and to enable the Union to act partnership, as well as for efficiency and autonomously in operations abroad, mainly a desirable reduction of the military with a view to stabilising its expenses of individual Member States neighbourhood, the Treaties should provide (deriving from the savings achievable for the possibility of establishing a through joint projects and economies of European defence union; scale), and to enable the Union to act autonomously in operations abroad, mainly with a view to conducting conflict prevention operations and peacekeeping in its neighbourhood, in compliance with the principles of the United Nations, the Treaties should provide the possibility of establishing a European defence union;

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Amendment 794 Max Andersson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33. Stresses that for the Union to 33. Considers that the militarisation of strengthen the defence of the EU territory, the EU must be terminated; notes that the as a pillar within NATO, which remains plans for a joint army, defence alliance the cornerstone of the European security and equipment must be removed from the architecture, and to enable the Union to Treaty; act autonomously in operations abroad, mainly with a view to stabilising its neighbourhood, the Treaties should provide for the possibility of establishing a European defence union;

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Amendment 795 Sylvie Goulard, Charles Goerens

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33. Stresses that for the Union to 33. Stresses that for the Union to strengthen the defence of the EU territory, strengthen the defence of the EU territory, as a pillar within NATO, which remains as a pillar within NATO, which remains the cornerstone of the European security the cornerstone of the European security architecture, and to enable the Union to act architecture, and to enable the Union to act autonomously in operations abroad, mainly autonomously in operations abroad, mainly with a view to stabilising its with a view to stabilising its neighbourhood, the Treaties should provide neighbourhood, the Treaties should provide for the possibility of establishing a for the possibility of establishing a European defence union; European defence union; draws attention to the Franco-German initiative of September 2016, which provides a useful contribution to this issue;

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Amendment 796 Dennis de Jong

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33. Stresses that for the Union to 33. Calls for an undertaking to strengthen the defence of the EU territory, guarantee the sovereignty of Member as a pillar within NATO, which remains States and therefore to combat the the cornerstone of the European security creeping development towards a military architecture, and to enable the Union to Union by refraining from reinforcing the act autonomously in operations abroad, European Defence Agency and taking any mainly with a view to stabilising its steps towards establishing a European neighbourhood, the Treaties should army; provide for the possibility of establishing a European defence union;

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Amendment 797 Martina Anderson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33. Stresses that for the Union to 33. Stresses that for Member States to strengthen the defence of the EU territory, strengthen the defence of their territory, as a pillar within NATO, which remains there should be encouragement for the cornerstone of the European security cooperation and information sharing on architecture, and to enable the Union to criminals and criminality between act autonomously in operations abroad, Member States providing that data mainly with a view to stabilising its protection laws and the rights of neighbourhood, the Treaties should individuals are respected; provide for the possibility of establishing a European defence union;

Or. en

Amendment 798 Pascal Durand on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33. Stresses that for the Union to 33. Stresses that for the Union to strengthen the defence of the EU territory, strengthen its defence policy, and to enable as a pillar within NATO, which remains the Union to act autonomously in the cornerstone of the European security operations abroad, in accordance with the architecture, and to enable the Union to principles of the United Nations Charter, act autonomously in operations abroad, the Treaties should provide for the mainly with a view to stabilising its possibility of establishing a European neighbourhood, the Treaties should defence union; provide for the possibility of establishing a European defence union;

Or. en

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Amendment 799 Morten Messerschmidt, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33. Stresses that for the Union to 33. Stresses that for the Union to strengthen the defence of the EU territory, strengthen the defence of the EU territory, as a pillar within NATO, which remains as a pillar within NATO, which remains the cornerstone of the European security the cornerstone of the European security architecture, and to enable the Union to act architecture, and to enable the Union to act autonomously in operations abroad, mainly autonomously in operations abroad, mainly with a view to stabilising its with a view to stabilising its neighbourhood, the Treaties should neighbourhood ; provide for the possibility of establishing a European defence union;

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Amendment 800 Izaskun Bilbao Barandica

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33. Stresses that for the Union to 33. Stresses that for the Union to strengthen the defence of the EU territory, strengthen the defence of the EU territory, as a pillar within NATO, which remains as a pillar within NATO, which remains the cornerstone of the European security the cornerstone of the European security architecture, and to enable the Union to act architecture, and to enable the Union to act autonomously in operations abroad, mainly autonomously in operations abroad, mainly with a view to stabilising its with a view to stabilising its neighbourhood, the Treaties should provide neighbourhood, the Treaties should for the possibility of establishing a support the creation of a European European defence union; defence union that enables an authentic European army to be arranged;

Or. es

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Amendment 801 Eleftherios Synadinos

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33. Stresses that for the Union to 33. Stresses that for the Union to strengthen the defence of the EU territory, strengthen the defence of the EU territory, as a pillar within NATO, which remains as a pillar within NATO, which remains the cornerstone of the European security the cornerstone of the European security architecture, and to enable the Union to act architecture, and to enable the Union to act autonomously in operations abroad, mainly autonomously in peacekeeping operations with a view to stabilising its abroad, mainly with a view to stabilising neighbourhood, the Treaties should provide and developing its neighbourhood, the for the possibility of establishing a Treaties should provide for the possibility European defence union; of establishing a European defence union;

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Amendment 802 Jo Leinen, Enrique Guerrero Salom, Mercedes Bresso, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33. Stresses that for the Union to 33. Stresses the need to create a proper strengthen the defence of the EU territory, European Defence Union, which in as a pillar within NATO, which remains strategic partnership with NATO could the cornerstone of the European security enable the Union to act autonomously in architecture, and to enable the Union to operations abroad, mainly with a view to act autonomously in operations abroad, stabilising its neighbourhood; stresses that mainly with a view to stabilising its the European Parliament should be fully neighbourhood, the Treaties should involved in all steps of the creation of the provide for the possibility of establishing a European Defence Union and have the European defence union; right of consent in case of operations abroad;

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Amendment 803 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33. Stresses that for the Union to 33. Stresses that for the Union to strengthen the defence of the EU territory, strengthen the defence of the EU territory, as a pillar within NATO, which remains as a pillar within NATO, which remains the cornerstone of the European security the cornerstone of the European security architecture, and to enable the Union to architecture, and with a view to stabilising act autonomously in operations abroad, its neighbourhood through non- mainly with a view to stabilising its intervention, the Treaties should prevent neighbourhood, the Treaties should provide the possibility of establishing a European for the possibility of establishing a defence union; European defence union;

Or. en

Amendment 804 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33. Stresses that for the Union to 33. Stresses that NATO shall also be strengthen the defence of the EU territory, the cornerstone of the international as a pillar within NATO, which remains security architecture in future providing the cornerstone of the European security that NATO remains solely a defence architecture, and to enable the Union to union, and it calls on the Member States act autonomously in operations abroad, to strengthen the European section of the mainly with a view to stabilising its Atlantic alliance substantially by neighbourhood, the Treaties should optimising the military capabilities of the provide for the possibility of establishing a national armed forces of all the Member European defence union; States in order to meet strategic and military requirements;

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Amendment 805 Izaskun Bilbao Barandica

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33a. The intergovernmental formula should be replaced immediately by the Union method to dealing with foreign and security policy in order to give rise to a determinant EU role in the prevention of and negotiation and intervention in international conflicts; for those purposes it is important to make progress towards forming a qualified and respected European army that brings together the Member States’ human resources, intelligence and military technology to deal, in line with the values of the EU, with the external challenges facing us;

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Amendment 806 Pascal Durand on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33a. Calls for the establishment of the Council of Defence Ministers format and the setting up of a permanent military EU Operational Headquarters for the effective implementation of the Petersberg Tasks and the abolishment of current ad hoc structures or structures which are dependent on the foreign policy of a lead Member State;[ATH1] urges not to merge military and civilian planning and conduct structures; [ATH1]This can be done in the framework of the current treaties, but it is definitely an evolution of the current institutional set up.

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Amendment 807 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33a. Recalls that stability and security can be reached and guaranteed only by fair and equitable societal conditions and therefore any activity to promote stability and security should be brought forward by assuring the primacy of new forms of development which advantage local populations, especially in the field of agricultural production, and providing for economic and conflict-avoiding instruments and policies;

Or. en

Amendment 808 Cristian Dan Preda

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33a. Underlines the importance of making full use of the Treaties and CSDP legal potential by revising EU rapid reaction instruments and in particular the Battlegroups; to build a genuine European Defence Union, the EU needs to use all the instruments at its disposal ; Article 44 and Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union are useful tools as well as the structured cooperation mechanism;

Or. en

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Amendment 809 Jo Leinen, Enrique Guerrero Salom, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Mercedes Bresso

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33a. Considers that the Union should have a Commissioner for Security and Defence under the authority of the High Representative/Minister for Foreign Affairs as well as a more intense cooperation and integration of Member states defence capacities as the basis for the establishment of European Armed Forces;

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Amendment 810 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 33 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

33b. Recalls that, according to article 21 TEU, the Union’s action in the field of CFSP shall be guided by its founding principles namely democracy, the rule of law, the universality and indivisibility of human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect for human dignity, the principles of equality and solidarity, and respect for the principles of the United Nations Charter and international law; is convinced therefore that CFSP should be developed along these lines, thus promoting peace and stability, the enforcement of the principles of the UN Charter and of the Helsinki Final Act and the development of mutual cooperation for the benefit of all the parties involved;

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Amendment 811 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34. Believes, finally, that it is essential deleted that the restrictions in Article 24(1) TEU on the authority of the European Court of Justice in the field of CFSP be removed; calls, in the same spirit, for Parliament to gain greater powers of scrutiny and accountability over CFSP, including full co-decision powers over the budget;

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Amendment 812 Pascal Durand on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34. Believes, finally, that it is essential 34. Believes, finally, that it is essential that the restrictions in Article 24(1) TEU that the restrictions in Article 24(1) TEU on the authority of the European Court of on the authority of the European Court of Justice in the field of CFSP be removed; Justice in the field of CFSP be removed; calls, in the same spirit, for Parliament to calls, in the same spirit, for Parliament to gain greater powers of scrutiny and gain greater powers of scrutiny and accountability over CFSP, including full accountability over CFSP by, inter-alia, co-decision powers over the budget; including full co-decision powers over the budget and establishing the need to consult the Parliament to set out the objectives and analyse the risks prior to decisions on new CSDP missions and operations and on its strategic review;

Or. en

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Amendment 813 Morten Messerschmidt, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34. Believes, finally, that it is essential 34. Calls for Parliament to gain greater that the restrictions in Article 24(1) TEU powers of scrutiny and accountability over on the authority of the European Court of CFSP together with national parliaments ; Justice in the field of CFSP be removed; calls, in the same spirit, for Parliament to gain greater powers of scrutiny and accountability over CFSP, including full co-decision powers over the budget;

Or. en

Amendment 814 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34. Believes, finally, that it is essential 34. Notes that the new CFSP must be that the restrictions in Article 24(1) TEU built around the solution of international on the authority of the European Court of controversies by peaceful means and Justice in the field of CFSP be removed; respect strictly the strategic and calls, in the same spirit, for Parliament to diplomatic interests of all Member States; gain greater powers of scrutiny and accountability over CFSP, including full co-decision powers over the budget;

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Amendment 815 Barbara Spinelli

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

34. Believes, finally, that it is essential 34. Believes, finally, that it is essential that the restrictions in Article 24(1) TEU that the restrictions in Article 24(1) TEU on the authority of the European Court of on the authority of the European Court of Justice in the field of CFSP be removed; Justice in the field of CFSP be removed; calls, in the same spirit, for Parliament to calls, in the same spirit, for Parliament to gain greater powers of scrutiny and gain greater powers of scrutiny and accountability over CFSP, including full accountability over CFSP, including full co-decision powers over the budget; co-decision powers over the budget and policies of the CFSP;

Or. en

Amendment 816 Martina Anderson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34. Believes, finally, that it is essential 34. Believes, finally, the best way to that the restrictions in Article 24(1) TEU guarantee safety of European citizens is on the authority of the European Court of for cooperation between member states Justice in the field of CFSP be removed; police forces around information sharing calls, in the same spirit, for Parliament to on criminals and criminality, providing gain greater powers of scrutiny and that data protection laws and the rights of accountability over CFSP, including full individuals are respected; co-decision powers over the budget;

Or. en

Amendment 817 Eleftherios Synadinos

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Justice in the field of CFSP be removed; Justice in the field of CFSP be revisited; calls, in the same spirit, for Parliament to calls, in the same spirit, for Parliament to gain greater powers of scrutiny and gain greater powers of scrutiny and accountability over CFSP, including full accountability over CFSP, including full co-decision powers over the budget; co-decision powers over the budget;

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Amendment 818 Jo Leinen, Mercedes Bresso, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34. Believes, finally, that it is essential 34. Believes that it is essential that the that the restrictions in Article 24(1) TEU restrictions in Article 24(1) TEU on the on the authority of the European Court of authority of the European Court of Justice Justice in the field of CFSP be removed; in the field of CFSP be removed; calls, in calls, in the same spirit, for Parliament to the same spirit, for Parliament to gain gain greater powers of scrutiny and greater powers of scrutiny and accountability over CFSP, including full accountability over CFSP, including full co-decision powers over the budget; co-decision powers over the budget;

Or. en

Amendment 819 Jérôme Lavrilleux

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 – point 1 (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

(1) Points out that the excessive number and redundancy of emergency resolutions, but also of some subjects which address only the subsidiarity of Members States in the European Parliament’s reports, weaken their political and diplomatic impact;

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Amendment 820 Andrey Kovatchev

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34а. Emphasises the necessity of expansion of resources intended for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, in order to achieve a fairer sharing of the cost for military operations, implemented within the Common Security and Defence Policy or the European Defence Union;

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Amendment 821 Jérôme Lavrilleux, Arnaud Danjean, Marc Joulaud, Brice Hortefeux, Philippe Juvin, Françoise Grossetête, Franck Proust, Michel Dantin, Angélique Delahaye, Maurice Ponga, Michèle Alliot-Marie, Tokia Saïfi, Anne Sander, Renaud Muselier

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34a. Points out that the excessive number and redundancy of emergency resolutions, but also of some subjects which address only the subsidiarity of Members States in the European Parliament’s reports, weaken their political and diplomatic impact;

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Amendment 822 Dennis de Jong

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new)

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

34a. Believes that Member States should jointly decide on international trade and that an end should be put to the exclusive competence of the Commission in this regard;

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Amendment 823 Max Andersson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34a. Considers that the EU needs to improve its transparency and introduce freedom to communicate information and a genuine principle of public access to official records;

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Amendment 824 Pervenche Berès, Christine Revault D’Allonnes Bonnefoy, Sylvie Guillaume, Edouard Martin

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34a. Calls on the right to abortion to be enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;

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Amendment 825 Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Jo Leinen

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34a. Proposes the establishment of a European Intelligence Office in order to support the CFSP;

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Amendment 826 Jo Leinen, Mercedes Bresso, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Enrique Guerrero Salom, Pedro Silva Pereira, Pervenche Berès

Motion for a resolution Subheading 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Safeguarding the EU’s fundamental values

Or. en

Amendment 827 Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz

Motion for a resolution Subheading 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Fundamental rights

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Amendment 828 Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34a. Reiterates that the Commission is the guardian of the treaties and of its values referred to in Article 2; concludes, following the experience with several possible breaches of the values of the Union in various member states, that the current procedure in Article 7 TEU is deficient and cumbersome; proposes to make the Commission the executor of the Article 7 procedure with the Council and Parliament as decision makers, and to expunge the unanimity rule, and to review the sanction mechanism;

Or. en

Amendment 829 Jo Leinen, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Mercedes Bresso, Pedro Silva Pereira, Pervenche Berès

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34a. Underlines that respect for and the safeguarding of the EU’s fundamental values are the cornerstone of the European Union as a community based on values and bind European Member States together;

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Amendment 830 Ramón Jáuregui Atondo

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 b (new)

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

34b. Calls for the unification of the European Union representation in the United Nations and other multilateral organisations;

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Amendment 831 Jo Leinen, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Mercedes Bresso, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34b. Calls for a revision of the procedures laid down in Article 7 TEU to make the preventive mechanism and the sanctioning mechanism with regards to violations of the EU’s fundamental values relevant and applicable; proposes that the Council should act by qualified majority instead of a majority of four fifth of its members when determining a clear risk of a serious breach of the fundamental values under Article 7 (1) TEU, and that the European Council should act by qualified majority instead of unanimity when determining the existence of a serious and persistent breach under Article 7 (2) TEU;

Or. en

Amendment 832 Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 b (new)

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

34b. Proposes to make it possible for legislation, after its adoption but before implementation, to be referred to the Court of Justice by Parliament or Council on its compatibility with the treaties;

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Amendment 833 Jo Leinen, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Enrique Guerrero Salom, Mercedes Bresso

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 c (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34c. Proposes to amend Article 258 TFEU in order to explicitly allow the Commission to take ‘systemic infringement action’ against Member States violating fundamental values; understands ‘systemic infringement action’ as the bundling of a group of related individual infringement actions suggesting a serious and persistent violation of Article 2 TEU by a Member State;

Or. en

Amendment 834 Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 c (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34c. Proposes to enlarge the right to all natural and legal persons who are directly and individually affected by an action to

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bring actions before the ECJ for alleged violations of the Charter of Fundamental Rights either by EU institutions or by a Member State, by amending Articles 258 and 259 TFEU;

Or. en

Amendment 835 Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 d (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34d. Recommends the abolition of Article 51 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and the conversion of the Charter into a Bill of Rights of the Union;

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Amendment 836 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34a. Considers that the Union needs to further strengthen its democratic legitimacy by providing for the involvement of civil society in the decision-making process; to this end, stresses once again the need to revise Regulation 211/2011 in order to encourage the Commission to have a less restrictive approach on the legal admissibility of an ECI and to allow a successful initiative to have an appropriate and concrete follow-up;

Or. en

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Amendment 837 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34b. Believes, moreover, that citizens should be endowed with more instruments of participatory democracy at Union’s level; therefore, proposes to evaluate the introduction, within the Treaties, of the provision for a EU referendum on matters relevant to Union’s actions and policies;

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Amendment 838 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 34 c (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

34c. Calls on the Commission to explore a citizens’ social veto as a mechanism that can prevent the entry into force of EU legislation that would increase poverty and inequality or decrease social rights; in this regard, suggests to take into consideration, as a point of reference, the provisions of Protocol (No. 2) on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;

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Amendment 839 Beatrix von Storch

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution Amendment

35. Proposes transforming the deleted Commission into the principle executive authority or government of the Union with the aim of strengthening the ‘Union method’, increasing transparency and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of action taken at the level of the European Union;

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Amendment 840 György Schöpflin

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 841 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution Amendment

35. Proposes transforming the deleted Commission into the principle executive

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authority or government of the Union with the aim of strengthening the ‘Union method’, increasing transparency and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of action taken at the level of the European Union;

Or. el

Amendment 842 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. pl

Amendment 843 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution Amendment

35. Proposes transforming the 35. Proposes to explore the possibility Commission into the principle executive of transforming the Commission into an authority or government of the Union with executive authority of the Union; the aim of strengthening the ‘Union nevertheless, considers that this cannot be method’, increasing transparency and done without a prior redefinition of the improving the efficiency and effectiveness overall political strategy of the Union, of action taken at the level of the aiming at the full realisation of its main European Union; principles and objectives as provided for, in particular, in articles 2 TEU and 9 to

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13 TFEU; is convinced that such a change first requires a re-evaluation of the role and prerogatives of this Institution in terms of functions, composition and strengthening of democratic accountability and transparency as well as of the system of checks and balances in the Union as a whole;

Or. en

Amendment 844 Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution Amendment

35. Proposes transforming the 35. Proposes transforming the Commission into the principle executive Commission into the principle executive authority or government of the Union with authority or government of the Union with the aim of strengthening the ‘Union the aim of strengthening the ‘Union method’, increasing transparency and method’, increasing transparency and improving the efficiency and effectiveness improving the efficiency and effectiveness of action taken at the level of the European of action taken at the level of the European Union; Union, thus avoiding a dogmatic interpretation of the EU law and procedures, preventing monolithic conceptions of the EU;

Or. en

Amendment 845 David McAllister, Markus Pieper

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution Amendment

35. Proposes transforming the 35. Proposes strengthening the ‘Union Commission into the principle executive method’, increasing transparency and authority or government of the Union improving the efficiency and effectiveness

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with the aim of strengthening the ‘Union of action taken at the level of the European method’, increasing transparency and Union; improving the efficiency and effectiveness of action taken at the level of the European Union;

Or. de

Amendment 846 Martina Anderson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution Amendment

35. Proposes transforming the 35. Believes that the Commission Commission into the principle executive suffers from a lack of democratic authority or government of the Union accountability in the eyes of European with the aim of strengthening the ‘Union citizens; is further concerned that in the method’, increasing transparency and fallout the UK referendum, that in an improving the efficiency and effectiveness attempt to ameliorate the situation in the of action taken at the level of the remaining 27 Member States, an European Union; unwanted ‘vision’ for a federal Europe will be pushed by the EU institutions;

Or. en

Amendment 847 Eleftherios Synadinos

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution Amendment

35. Proposes transforming the 35. Proposes transforming the Commission into the principle executive Commission into the principle executive authority or government of the Union with authority or government of the Union, the aim of strengthening the ‘Union accountable to the Council and the method’, increasing transparency and Parliament, with the aim of strengthening improving the efficiency and effectiveness the ‘Union method’, increasing of action taken at the level of the European transparency and improving the efficiency Union; and effectiveness of action taken at the level of the European Union;

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Or. el

Amendment 848 Dennis de Jong

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution Amendment

35. Proposes transforming the 35. Rejects the Commission in its Commission into the principle executive current form and wants the Commission authority or government of the Union to be nothing more than an executive and with the aim of strengthening the ‘Union serving body; proposes to transfer the method’, increasing transparency and right of initiative to the Member States improving the efficiency and effectiveness and the European Parliament; of action taken at the level of the European Union;

Or. nl

Amendment 849 Pascal Durand on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution Amendment

35. Proposes transforming the 35. Proposes transforming the Commission into the principle executive Commission into the unique executive authority or government of the Union with authority or government of the Union with the aim of strengthening the ‘Union the aim of strengthening the ‘Union method’, increasing transparency and method’, increasing transparency and improving the efficiency and effectiveness improving the efficiency and effectiveness of action taken at the level of the European of action taken at the level of the European Union; Union;

Or. en

Amendment 850 Luke Ming Flanagan

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution Amendment

35. Proposes transforming the 35. Proposes transforming the Commission into the principle executive Commission as follow: members should authority or government of the Union be elected directly by the electorate in with the aim of strengthening the ‘Union individual Member States, thus increasing method’, increasing transparency and transparency and improving the efficiency improving the efficiency and effectiveness and effectiveness of action taken at the of action taken at the level of the European level of the European Union; Union;

Or. en

Amendment 851 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

35a. Considers it necessary to enhance the political responsibility and accountability of the Commission to the European Parliament as far as the respect of the primary law, including the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union, is concerned; in this respect, proposes to revise article 234 TFEU in order to strengthening the prerogatives of the European Parliament by allowing it to table a motion of censure also against single Commissioners;

Or. en

Amendment 852 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 a (new)

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

35a. Considers that a new debate on reforming the EU institutions to strengthen the Member States’ influence on the EU decision-making process could be a response to the threats;

Or. pl

Amendment 853 Dennis de Jong

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 35 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

35a. Proposes to allow Member States an ‘opt-out’ possibility in the case of new legislation in important areas such as criminal law;

Or. nl

Amendment 854 György Schöpflin

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36

Motion for a resolution Amendment

36. Reiterates its call for the size of the deleted renewed Commission to be reduced substantially and for its vice-presidents to be reduced to two: the Finance Minister and the Foreign Minister; suggests that the same reduction be applied to the Court of Auditors;

Or. en

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Amendment 855 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. pl

Amendment 856 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. el

Amendment 857 Pascal Durand on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

36. Reiterates its call for the size of the 36. Reiterates its call for the size of the renewed Commission to be reduced renewed Commission to be reduced substantially and for its vice-presidents to substantially; Considers that the be reduced to two: the Finance Minister composition of the Commission, the and the Foreign Minister; suggests that allocation of portfolios and the possible the same reduction be applied to the Court nomination of Vice-Presidents is a matter of Auditors; of political choice and should therefore not be enshrined in the primary law of the Union but rather depend on the decision of the President of the Commission elected and scrutinised by the Parliament;

Or. en

Amendment 858 Esther de Lange

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36

Motion for a resolution Amendment

36. Reiterates its call for the size of the 36. Reiterates its call for the size of the renewed Commission to be reduced renewed Commission to be reduced substantially and for its vice-presidents to substantially; be reduced to two, namely the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Foreign Affairs; suggests that the same reduction be applied to the Court of Auditors;

Or. nl

Amendment 859 Martina Anderson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36

Motion for a resolution Amendment

36. Reiterates its call for the size of the 36. Reiterates its call for the size of the renewed Commission to be reduced renewed Commission to be reduced

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substantially and for its vice-presidents to substantially and for its vice-presidents to be reduced to two: the Finance Minister be reduced to two; and the Foreign Minister; suggests that the same reduction be applied to the Court of Auditors;

Or. en

Amendment 860 Eleftherios Synadinos

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36

Motion for a resolution Amendment

36. Reiterates its call for the size of the 36. Reiterates its call for the size of the renewed Commission to be reduced renewed Commission to be reduced; substantially and for its vice-presidents to suggests that the same reduction be applied be reduced to two: the Finance Minister to the Court of Auditors; and the Foreign Minister; suggests that the same reduction be applied to the Court of Auditors;

Or. el

Amendment 861. Fabio Massimo Castaldo

Motion for a Resolution Paragraph 36

Motion for a Resolution Amendment

36. Reiterates its call for the size of the 36. reiterates its call for the size of the renewed Commission to be reduced renewed Commission to be reduced and for substantially and for its vice-presidents to its vice presidents to be reduced in be reduced to two: the Finance Minister number; suggests that the same reduction and the Foreign Minister; suggests that be applied to the Court of Auditors; the same reduction be applied to the Court of Auditors;

Or. it

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Amendment 862 Paulo Rangel

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 863 Markus Pieper

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. de

Amendment 864 Rainer Wieland

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36

Motion for a resolution Amendment

36. Reiterates its call for the size of the 36. Reiterates its call for the size of the

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renewed Commission to be reduced renewed Commission to be reduced substantially and for its vice-presidents to substantially and for the number of vice- be reduced to two: the Finance Minister presidents to be reduced; suggests that the and the Foreign Minister; suggests that same reduction be applied to the Court of the same reduction be applied to the Court Auditors; of Auditors;

Or. de

Amendment 865 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36

Motion for a resolution Amendment

36. Reiterates its call for the size of the 36. Reiterates its call for the size of the renewed Commission to be reduced Commission to be reduced substantially substantially and for its vice-presidents to and for its vice-presidents to be reduced to be reduced to two: the Finance Minister two; suggests that the same reduction be and the Foreign Minister; suggests that applied to the Court of Auditors; the same reduction be applied to the Court of Auditors;

Or. en

Amendment 866 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 36

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. de

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Amendment 867 Max Andersson

Motion for a resolution Rule 36

Motion for a resolution Amendment

36. Reiterates its call for the size of the 36. Considers that all countries in the renewed Commission to be reduced future as well should have their own substantially and for its vice-presidents to commissioner and that the non-Eurozone be reduced to two: the Finance Minister countries should be strengthened by their and the Foreign Minister; suggests that own commissioner who is tasked with the same reduction be applied to the Court safeguarding the rights of non-Eurozone of Auditors; countries;

Or. sv

Amendment 868. Fabio Massimo Castaldo

Motion for a Resolution Paragraph 36 (a new)

Motion for a Resolution Amendment

36(a) notes that, parallel to the procedures of national laws, the use of a motion of censure should be made possible in accordance with the process provided for in Article 234 TFEU as well as against individual Commissioners, providing however in this case that there is a majority threshold equal to three fifths of the votes cast in the Parliament;

Or. it

Amendment 869 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

37. Welcomes the successful new deleted procedure whereby European political parties promote their top candidates for the President of the European executive, but believes that they should be able to stand during the next elections as official candidates in all Member States; proposes, therefore, following its legislative proposal on the reform of the electoral law of the European Union, empowering the electorate by giving them two votes, one for the national or regional lists and a second one for the European party lists; these European lists will be headed by the parties’ nominees to become President of the European executive or government and will be composed of candidates drawn from at least one third of the Member States;

Or. el

Amendment 870 Markus Pieper

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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headed by the parties’ nominees to become President of the European executive or government and will be composed of candidates drawn from at least one third of the Member States;

Or. de

Amendment 871 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. de

Amendment 872 Max Andersson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. sv

Amendment 873 Martina Anderson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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headed by the parties’ nominees to become President of the European executive or government and will be composed of candidates drawn from at least one third of the Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 874 Rainer Wieland

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37

Motion for a resolution Amendment

37. Welcomes the successful new 37. Welcomes the successful new procedure whereby European political procedure whereby European political parties promote their top candidates for the parties promote their top candidates for the President of the European executive, but President of the European executive; believes that they should be able to stand during the next elections as official candidates in all Member States; proposes, therefore, following its legislative proposal on the reform of the electoral law of the European Union, empowering the electorate by giving them two votes, one for the national or regional lists and a second one for the European party lists; these European lists will be headed by the parties’ nominees to become President of the European executive or government and will be composed of candidates drawn from at least one third of the Member States;

Or. de

Amendment 875 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

37. Welcomes the successful new 37. Believes that a mechanism should procedure whereby European political be introduced to ensure transparency in parties promote their top candidates for the election of the European Commission the President of the European executive, President; further notes that it is but believes that they should be able to necessary to increase representativeness stand during the next elections as official of the European Parliament and thereby candidates in all Member States; to refrain from establishing compulsory proposes, therefore, following its electoral thresholds; legislative proposal on the reform of the electoral law of the European Union, empowering the electorate by giving them two votes, one for the national or regional lists and a second one for the European party lists; these European lists will be headed by the parties’ nominees to become President of the European executive or government and will be composed of candidates drawn from at least one third of the Member States;

Or. pl

Amendment 876 György Schöpflin

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37

Motion for a resolution Amendment

37. Welcomes the successful new 37. Welcomes the successful new procedure whereby European political procedure whereby European political parties promote their top candidates for the parties promote their top candidates for the President of the European executive, but President of the European executive, but believes that they should be able to stand believes that they should be able to stand during the next elections as official during the next elections as official candidates in all Member States; proposes, candidates in all Member States; therefore, following its legislative proposal on the reform of the electoral law of the European Union, empowering the electorate by giving them two votes, one for the national or regional lists and a second one for the European party lists; these European lists will be headed by the

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parties’ nominees to become President of the European executive or government and will be composed of candidates drawn from at least one third of the Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 877 Paulo Rangel, Constance Le Grip, Alain Lamassoure

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37

Motion for a resolution Amendment

37. Welcomes the successful new 37. Welcomes the successful new procedure whereby European political procedure whereby European political parties promote their top candidates for the parties promote their lead candidates for President of the European executive, but the President of the European executive, believes that they should be able to stand elected by the European Parliament on a during the next elections as official proposal by the European Council; candidates in all Member States; suggests the integration of the proposes, therefore, following its ‘Spitzenkandidat procedure’ into the legislative proposal on the reform of the Union’s legal framework; electoral law of the European Union, empowering the electorate by giving them two votes, one for the national or regional lists and a second one for the European party lists; these European lists will be headed by the parties’ nominees to become President of the European executive or government and will be composed of candidates drawn from at least one third of the Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 878 Ramon Tremosa i Balcells

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

37. Welcomes the successful new 37. Proposes to reform the procedure procedure whereby European political to choose the President of the European parties promote their top candidates for Commission, following its legislative the President of the European executive, proposal on the reform of the electoral law but believes that they should be able to of the European Union, empowering the stand during the next elections as official electorate by giving them two votes, one candidates in all Member States; for the national or regional lists and a proposes, therefore, following its second one for the European party lists; legislative proposal on the reform of the these European lists will be headed by the electoral law of the European Union, parties’ nominees to become President of empowering the electorate by giving them the European executive or government and two votes, one for the national or regional will be composed of candidates drawn lists and a second one for the European from at least one third of the Member party lists; these European lists will be States; headed by the parties’ nominees to become President of the European executive or government and will be composed of candidates drawn from at least one third of the Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 879 Jo Leinen, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Enrique Guerrero Salom, Mercedes Bresso

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37

Motion for a resolution Amendment

37. Welcomes the successful new 37. Welcomes the successful new procedure whereby European political procedure whereby European political parties promote their top candidates for the parties promote their top candidates for the President of the European executive, but President of the European executive, but believes that they should be able to stand believes that they should be able to stand during the next elections as official during the next elections as official candidates in all Member States; proposes, candidates in all Member States; proposes, therefore, following its legislative proposal therefore, following its legislative proposal on the reform of the electoral law of the on the reform of the electoral law of the European Union, empowering the European Union, empowering the electorate by giving them two votes, one electorate by giving them two votes, one for the national or regional lists and a for the national or regional lists and a second one for the European party lists; second one for the European party lists; these European lists will be headed by the these European lists will be headed by the

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parties’ nominees to become President of European political parties’ nominees to the European executive or government and become President of the European will be composed of candidates drawn executive or government and will be from at least one third of the Member composed of candidates drawn from at States; least one third of the Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 880 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37

Motion for a resolution Amendment

37. Welcomes the successful new 37. Welcomes the new procedure procedure whereby European political whereby European political parties parties promote their top candidates for the promote their top candidates for the President of the European executive, but President of the European Commission, believes that they should be able to stand but believes that they should be able to during the next elections as official stand during the next elections as official candidates in all Member States; proposes, candidates in all Member States; proposes, therefore, following its legislative proposal therefore, following its legislative proposal on the reform of the electoral law of the on the reform of the electoral law of the European Union, empowering the European Union, empowering the electorate by giving them two votes, one electorate by giving them two votes, one for the national or regional lists and a for the national or regional lists and a second one for the European party lists; second one for the European party lists; these European lists will be headed by the these European lists will be headed by the parties’ nominees to become President of nominees to become President of the the European executive or government Commission and will be composed of and will be composed of candidates drawn candidates drawn from at least one third of from at least one third of the Member the Member States; States;

Or. en

Amendment 881 Ramon Tremosa i Balcells

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 a (new)

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

37a. Strongly believes that a more democratically legitimate European Commission shall have the political strength to protect the rule of European law in all the Union and enforce, in a level playing field, the EU rule of law mechanism to all Member States that infringe basic democratic principles such as independence of the judiciary, actions against media pluralism, fundamental rights or persecution of political rivals with the tools of government;

Or. en

Amendment 882 Charles Goerens

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

37a. Advocates to insert in the Treaties a European associate citizenship for those who feel and wish to be part of the European project but are nationals of a former Member State; offers these associate citizens the rights of freedom of movement and to reside on its territory as well as being represented in the Parliament through a vote in the European elections on the European lists;

Or. en

Amendment 883 Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz, Charles Goerens, Sylvie Goulard

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 a (new)

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

37a. Emphasises that involving citizens in the political process of their country of residence helps to build European democracy, and therefore calls for the electoral rights of citizens residing in a Member State of which they are not nationals, as set out in Article 22 TFEU, to be extended to include all remaining elections: provincial, regional, and national;

Or. en

Amendment 884 Izaskun Bilbao Barandica

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

37a. Stresses that electoral constituencies in the Member States must adapt to their own institutional, national, cultural and linguistic diversity in order to guarantee that all European minorities are appropriately represented and integrated in the European Parliament;

Or. es

Amendment 885 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

37a. Notes that the procedure whereby European political parties promoted their top candidates for the 2014 European

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Parliament Elections neither had a solid political base, nor was it based on Community law, and as such should no longer be used in future;

Or. de

Amendment 886 Pascal Durand on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 37 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

37a. Suggests, to this end, the creation of a constituency formed of the entire territory of the Union which shall be composed of a number of seats equivalent to those currently allocated to the United Kingdom;

Or. en

Amendment 887 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38

Motion for a resolution Amendment

38. Recalls that Parliament, following deleted the European Council Decision of 28 June 2013, will need to present before the end of 2016 a proposal to establish a system which will make it possible, before each election to the European Parliament, to reallocate the seats among Member States in an objective, fair, durable and transparent way, respecting the principle of degressive proportionality, while taking account of any change in the number of Member States and demographic trends;

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Or. el

Amendment 888 Jo Leinen, Mercedes Bresso, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38

Motion for a resolution Amendment

38. Recalls that Parliament, following 38. Supports the European Council the European Council Decision of 28 June Decision of 28 June 2013 to establish a 2013, will need to present before the end system which will make it possible, before of 2016 a proposal to establish a system each election to the European Parliament, which will make it possible, before each to reallocate the seats among Member election to the European Parliament, to States in an objective, fair, durable and reallocate the seats among Member States transparent way, respecting the principle of in an objective, fair, durable and degressive proportionality, while taking transparent way, respecting the principle of account of any change in the number of degressive proportionality, while taking Member States and demographic trends; account of any change in the number of Member States and demographic trends;

Or. en

Amendment 889 Eleftherios Synadinos

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38

Motion for a resolution Amendment

38. Recalls that Parliament, following 38. Recalls that Parliament, following the European Council Decision of 28 June the European Council Decision of 28 June 2013, will need to present before the end of 2013, will need to present before the end of 2016 a proposal to establish a system 2016 a proposal to establish a system which will make it possible, before each which will make it possible, before each election to the European Parliament, to election to the European Parliament, to reallocate the seats among Member States reallocate the seats among Member States in an objective, fair, durable and in an objective, fair, durable and transparent way, respecting the principle of transparent way, respecting the principle of degressive proportionality, while taking proportionality, while taking account of account of any change in the number of any change in the number of Member Member States and demographic trends; States and demographic data;

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Or. el

Amendment 890 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

38a. Believes that any given Member of the European Parliament should be nominated as the President for a maximum of two terms of office, either consecutive ones or with an interval between the first and the second term of office;

Or. pl

Amendment 891 Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Frédérique Ries, Pina Picierno, Tomáš Zdechovský, Helga Stevens, Lynn Boylan, Michaela Šojdrová, Anneleen Van Bossuyt, Bart Staes, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Merja Kyllönen, Richard Sulík, Ashley Fox, Ernest Urtasun, Nils Torvalds, Bodil Valero, Romana Tomc, Bas Eickhout, Judith Sargentini, Afzal Khan, Jeppe Kofod, Jan Philipp Albrecht, Pascal Arimont, Nicola Caputo, Jan Zahradil, Ulrike Lunacek, Luigi Morgano, Salvatore Domenico Pogliese, Fredrick Federley, Jeroen Lenaers, Heidi Hautala, Dennis de Jong, Jens Geier, Pascal Durand, Giovanni La Via, Morten Messerschmidt, Ivo Belet

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 38 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

38a. Reiterates its commitment to initiating an ordinary treaty revision procedure under Article 48 TEU with a view to proposing the changes to Article 341 TEU and Protocol 6 necessary to allow Parliament to decide on the location of its seat and its internal organisation;

Or. en

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Amendment 892 Constance Le Grip, Anne Sander, Philippe Juvin, Brice Hortefeux, Alain Lamassoure, Franck Proust, Marc Joulaud, Renaud Muselier, Angélique Delahaye, Alain Cadec, Arnaud Danjean, Tokia Saïfi

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution Amendment

39. Reiterates its call for a single seat deleted for the European Parliament; proposes that Parliament and the Council each decide the location of their own seat after having obtained the consent of the other; further proposes that the seats of all the other EU institutions, agencies and bodies be determined by Parliament and the Council on a proposal by the European executive, acting in accordance with a special legislative procedure;

Or. fr

Amendment 893 Paulo Rangel

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. en

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Amendment 894 Cristian Dan Preda

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 895 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution Amendment

39. Reiterates its call for a single seat 39. Reiterates its call for a single seat for the European Parliament; proposes that for the European Parliament; Parliament and the Council each decide the location of their own seat after having obtained the consent of the other; further proposes that the seats of all the other EU institutions, agencies and bodies be determined by Parliament and the Council on a proposal by the European executive, acting in accordance with a special legislative procedure;

Or. pl

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Amendment 896 Jérôme Lavrilleux, Anne Sander

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution Amendment

39. Reiterates its call for a single seat 39. Points out that the seat of the for the European Parliament; proposes that European Parliament is in Strasbourg and Parliament and the Council each decide that its places of work can only be the location of their own seat after having changed by means of an amendment to obtained the consent of the other; further the Treaty on European Union; proposes that the seats of all the other EU institutions, agencies and bodies be determined by Parliament and the Council on a proposal by the European executive, acting in accordance with a special legislative procedure;

Or. fr

Amendment 897 Jérôme Lavrilleux, Anne Sander, Michèle Alliot-Marie, Tokia Saïfi, Arnaud Danjean, Marc Joulaud, Brice Hortefeux, Franck Proust, Françoise Grossetête, Philippe Juvin, Maurice Ponga, Michel Dantin, Renaud Muselier

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. fr

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Amendment 898 Ramón Jáuregui Atondo

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution Amendment

39. Reiterates its call for a single seat 39. Proposes that Parliament and the for the European Parliament; proposes Council decide the seats of all other EU that Parliament and the Council each institutions, agencies and bodies on a decide the location of their own seat after proposal by the European executive, acting having obtained the consent of the other; in accordance with a special legislative further proposes that the seats of all the procedure; other EU institutions, agencies and bodies be determined by Parliament and the Council on a proposal by the European executive, acting in accordance with a special legislative procedure;

Or. en

Amendment 899 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution Amendment

39. Reiterates its call for a single seat 39. Reiterates its call for a single seat for the European Parliament; proposes that for the European Parliament; further Parliament and the Council each decide proposes that the seats of all the other EU the location of their own seat after having institutions, agencies and bodies be obtained the consent of the other; further determined by Parliament and the Council proposes that the seats of all the other EU on a proposal by the European executive, institutions, agencies and bodies be acting in accordance with a special determined by Parliament and the Council legislative procedure; reiterates the fact on a proposal by the European executive, that 13 EU institutions are based in the acting in accordance with a special Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; legislative procedure;

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Amendment 900 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution Amendment

39. Reiterates its call for a single seat 39. Reiterates its call for a single seat for the European Parliament; proposes that for the European Parliament; proposes that Parliament and the Council each decide the Parliament and the Council each decide the location of their own seat after having location of their own seat after having obtained the consent of the other; further obtained the consent of the other; further proposes that the seats of all the other EU proposes that the seats of all the other EU institutions, agencies and bodies be institutions, agencies and bodies be determined by Parliament and the Council determined by Parliament and the Council on a proposal by the European executive, acting in accordance with a special acting in accordance with a special legislative procedure; legislative procedure;

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Amendment 901 Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Pina Picierno, Tomáš Zdechovský, Helga Stevens, Lynn Boylan, Michaela Šojdrová, Anneleen Van Bossuyt, Bart Staes, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Merja Kyllönen, Richard Sulík, Ashley Fox, Ernest Urtasun, Nils Torvalds, Bodil Valero, Romana Tomc, Bas Eickhout, Judith Sargentini, Afzal Khan, Jeppe Kofod, Jan Philipp Albrecht,, Pascal Arimont, Nicola Caputo, Jan Zahradil, Ulrike Lunacek, Luigi Morgano, Salvatore Domenico Pogliese, Fredrick Federley, Jeroen Lenaers, Heidi Hautala, Dennis de Jong, Jens Geier, Pascal Durand, Frédérique Ries, Giovanni La Via, Morten Messerschmidt, Ivo Belet

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution Amendment

39. Reiterates its call for a single seat 39. Reiterates its call for a single seat for the European Parliament; proposes that for the European Parliament; proposes that Parliament and the Council each decide the Parliament and the Council each decide the location of their own seat after having location of their own seat; further proposes obtained the consent of the other; further that the seats of all the other EU proposes that the seats of all the other EU institutions, agencies and bodies be institutions, agencies and bodies be determined by Parliament and the Council determined by Parliament and the Council on a proposal by the European executive, on a proposal by the European executive, acting in accordance with a special acting in accordance with a special legislative procedure;

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legislative procedure;

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Amendment 902 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution Amendment

39. Reiterates its call for a single seat 39. Reiterates its call for a single seat for the European Parliament; proposes that for the European Parliament; proposes that Parliament and the Council each decide the Parliament and the Council each decide the location of their own seat after having location of their own seat after having obtained the consent of the other; further obtained the consent of the other; further proposes that the seats of all the other EU proposes that the seats of all the other EU institutions, agencies and bodies be institutions, agencies and bodies be determined by Parliament and the Council determined by Parliament and the Council on a proposal by the European executive, on a proposal by the European acting in accordance with a special Commission, acting in accordance with a legislative procedure; special legislative procedure;

Or. en

Amendment 903 Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

(1) Stresses also the need to discuss the issue of introducing an article into the Treaties containing the symbols of the Union to strengthen the common European identity of Citizens;

Or. en

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Amendment 904 Sylvie Goulard

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

39a. Believes that a delay of at least ten years will be required between deciding on a single seat for the European Parliament and this becoming a reality, to allow for a sufficient budgetary endowment to be established, in order to ensure the sustainable financing of a permanent centre for exchange in the former buildings of the Parliament in Strasbourg; considers that this centre should ensure meetings and exchanges of best practice between Europeans, for example citizens, experts, politicians, academics;

Or. en

Amendment 905 Jo Leinen, Enrique Guerrero Salom, Mercedes Bresso, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

39a. Stresses the need to better inform citizens about the EU, their role in European decision-making and their rights, which can be achieved amongst other means through civic education across the EU; reiterates its call from 28 October 2015 to reform the European Citizens Initiative to ensure that citizens engage directly with the EU institutions and become more actively involved in the framing of European policies and legislation;

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Or. en

Amendment 906 Jérôme Lavrilleux, Anne Sander, Michèle Alliot-Marie, Marc Joulaud, Brice Hortefeux, Franck Proust, Philippe Juvin, Michel Dantin, Maurice Ponga, Renaud Muselier

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

39a. Calls, in the interests of transparency, for a study to be carried out on the cost of all the European Union’s agencies and bodies being spread across the Member States; calls for a study to be carried out to calculate the savings that would be made by moving all the European Union’s decentralised bodies to its capital: Strasbourg;

Or. fr

Amendment 907 Morten Messerschmidt, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

39a. Reiterates its call for a single seat for the European Parliament; reminds that the European Parliament is the only EU institution directly elected by EU citizens ; recalls that over one million of them endorsed a petition asking for a single seat ; proposes accordingly changes to Article 341 TFEU and Protocol 6 and to allow the EP to decide on its internal organisation;

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Amendment 908 Constance Le Grip, Anne Sander, Alain Lamassoure, Franck Proust, Marc Joulaud, Renaud Muselier, Arnaud Danjean, Alain Cadec, Angélique Delahaye, Tokia Saïfi, Philippe Juvin, Brice Hortefeux

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

39a. Calls, in the light of the decentralised European Union institutions and the need for citizens to see and feel close to the European Parliament, for the permanent recognition as part of treaty revisions of the fact that the European Parliament has officially and historically had its headquarters in Strasbourg;

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Amendment 909 Jo Leinen, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Mercedes Bresso, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 39 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

39b. Calls for an increase in the capacity of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the Committee of the Regions (CoR) to directly impact the policy-shaping and legislative processes of the European Union by including them at the earliest stage possible in the Union’s legislative programming and by formally acknowledging their role in the assessment of EU policies and legislations;

Or. en

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Amendment 910 Andrey Kovatchev

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40

Motion for a resolution Amendment

40. Notes that, despite the prohibition deleted in Article 15(1) TEU, the European Council has undertaken various legislative initiatives; proposes abolishing Article 15(1) and integrating the European Council into a Council of States that could engage legitimately in the law-making process and provide direction and coherence to the other specialised Council configurations;

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Amendment 911 Cristian Dan Preda

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 912 Notis Marias

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. el

Amendment 913 David McAllister, Markus Pieper

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 914 Rainer Wieland

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 915 Barbara Spinelli

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40

Motion for a resolution Amendment

40. Notes that, despite the prohibition 40. Notes that, despite the prohibition in Article 15(1) TEU, the European in Article 15(1) TEU, the European Council has undertaken various legislative Council has undertaken various legislative initiatives; proposes abolishing Article initiatives; considers that the legitimacy of 15(1) and integrating the European Council these initiatives should be assessed by the into a Council of States that could engage Court of justice following an action ex legitimately in the law-making process and article 263 TFEU; proposes, furthermore, provide direction and coherence to the abolishing Article 15(1) and integrating the other specialised Council configurations; European Council into the General Affairs Council configuration in order to allow it to engage legitimately in the law-making process and provide direction and coherence to the other specialised Council configurations;

Or. en

Amendment 916 Paulo Rangel, Cristian Dan Preda

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40

Motion for a resolution Amendment

40. Notes that, despite the prohibition 40. Notes that the EU needs further in Article 15(1) TEU, the European transparent parliamentarisation, and calls Council has undertaken various for an enhanced parliamentary legislative initiatives; proposes abolishing democracy within the EU, with European Article 15(1) and integrating the Parliament and Council acting as the two European Council into a Council of States chambers of the Legislative Branch; that could engage legitimately in the law- stresses that the Council has to change its making process and provide direction and statute in accordance with the following: coherence to the other specialised Council the specialised Council configurations configurations; should be granted the status of committees of the Council; the Council, acting as a legislator and as a plenary of all committees, should meet in public;

Or. en

Amendment 917 Jo Leinen, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Mercedes Bresso, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 40

Motion for a resolution Amendment

40. Notes that, despite the prohibition 40. Notes that, despite the prohibition in Article 15(1) TEU, the European in Article 15(1) TEU, the European Council has undertaken various legislative Council has undertaken various legislative initiatives; proposes abolishing Article initiatives; proposes to integrate the 15(1) and integrating the European European Council as a Council Council into a Council of States that could configuration into the Council of the engage legitimately in the law-making European Union, where it could provide process and provide direction and direction and coherence to the specialised coherence to the other specialised Council Council configurations; configurations;

Or. en

Amendment 918 Martina Anderson

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41

Motion for a resolution Amendment

41. Considers that this Council and its deleted specialised configurations, as the second chamber of the EU legislature, should, in the interest of specialism, professionalism and continuity, replace the practice of the rotating six-month presidency with a system of permanent chairs chosen from their midst; suggests that the idea of creating a special Law Council should be favourably reconsidered;

Or. en

Amendment 919 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 920 Cristian Dan Preda

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

41. Considers that this Council and its 41. Calls for the reform of the specialised configurations, as the second institutional structure of the Council of chamber of the EU legislature, should, in the European Union with the objective of the interest of specialism, professionalism setting up a second chamber thus creating and continuity, replace the practice of the a genuine bi-cameral legislative system; rotating six-month presidency with a system of permanent chairs chosen from their midst; suggests that the idea of creating a special Law Council should be favourably reconsidered;

Or. en

Amendment 921 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41

Motion for a resolution Amendment

41. Considers that this Council and its 41. Considers it appropriate to specialised configurations, as the second redefine the competences of the Council chamber of the EU legislature, should, in vis-à-vis those of the European the interest of specialism, professionalism Parliament with the aim of strengthening and continuity, replace the practice of the the co-decision procedure and increasing rotating six-month presidency with a the transparency of the whole legislative system of permanent chairs chosen from process; calls, furthermore, on the their midst; suggests that the idea of Council, Commission and European creating a special Law Council should be Parliament to strongly limit the recourse favourably reconsidered; to Trilogues in the ordinary legislative procedure, while guaranteeing, at the same time, their full transparency;

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Amendment 922 Paulo Rangel

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

41. Considers that this Council and its 41. Considers that this Council and its specialised configurations, as the second specialised configurations, as the second chamber of the EU legislature, should, in chamber of the EU legislature, should, in the interest of specialism, professionalism the interest of specialism, professionalism and continuity, replace the practice of the and continuity, replace the practice of the rotating six-month presidency with a rotating six-month presidency with a system of permanent chairs chosen from system of permanent chairs chosen from their midst; suggests that the idea of their midst; creating a special Law Council should be favourably reconsidered;

Or. en

Amendment 923 Eleftherios Synadinos

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41

Motion for a resolution Amendment

41. Considers that this Council and its 41. Considers that this Council and its specialised configurations, as the second specialised configurations, as the second chamber of the EU legislature, should, in chamber of the EU legislature, should, in the interest of specialism, professionalism the interest of specialism, professionalism and continuity, replace the practice of the and continuity, replace the practice of the rotating six-month presidency with a rotating six-month presidency with a system of permanent chairs chosen from system of chairs, with a time bound term their midst; suggests that the idea of of office chosen from their midst; suggests creating a special Law Council should be that the idea of creating a special Law favourably reconsidered; Council should be favourably reconsidered;

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Amendment 924 Jo Leinen, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Mercedes Bresso, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

41. Considers that this Council and its 41. Considers that the Council and its specialised configurations, as the second specialised configurations, as the second chamber of the EU legislature, should, in chamber of the EU legislature, should, in the interest of specialism, professionalism the interest of specialism, professionalism and continuity, replace the practice of the and continuity, replace the practice of the rotating six-month presidency with a rotating six-month presidency with a system of permanent chairs chosen from system of permanent chairs chosen from their midst; suggests that the idea of their midst; suggests that the idea of creating a special Law Council should be creating a special Law Council should be favourably reconsidered; favourably reconsidered;

Or. en

Amendment 925 Andrey Kovatchev

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 41 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

41а. Believes that, in order to achieve better transparency and to improve EU citizens’ understanding of the operation of the institutional framework of the EU, the Council should be transformed into an European Senate, consisting of equal number of representatives of each Member State and functioning in accordance with the common European traditions of the two-chamber parliamentarism;

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Amendment 926 Cristian Dan Preda

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

42. Suggests that Member States deleted should be able to determine the composition of their national representation in the specialised Council configurations, whether consisting of representatives of their respective national parliaments, governments or a combination of both;

Or. en

Amendment 927 Barbara Spinelli

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 928 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42

Motion for a resolution Amendment

42. Suggests that Member States deleted should be able to determine the composition of their national representation in the specialised Council

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configurations, whether consisting of representatives of their respective national parliaments, governments or a combination of both;

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Amendment 929 Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

42a. Recommends Article 2 TEU and the Charter to become a legal basis for legislative measures to be adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure; Enabling national courts under Article 2 TEU and the Charter to bring before the Court of Justice proceedings relating to the legality of Member States’ actions;

Or. en

Amendment 930 Izaskun Bilbao Barandica

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 42 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

42a. Ecofin should take into account, in accordance with the case-law of the European Court of Justice, the existence of autonomous European treasuries with economic, institutional and regulatory independence in some Member States;

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Amendment 931 Cristian Dan Preda

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43

Motion for a resolution Amendment

43. Stresses that, following the deleted creation of the role of EU Finance Minister, the Eurogroup should be considered as a specialised configuration of the Council with legislative and control functions but no executive tasks;

Or. en

Amendment 932 Martina Anderson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 933 Morten Messerschmidt, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43

Motion for a resolution Amendment

43. Stresses that, following the deleted creation of the role of EU Finance Minister, the Eurogroup should be

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considered as a specialised configuration of the Council with legislative and control functions but no executive tasks;

Or. en

Amendment 934 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. el

Amendment 935 Jo Leinen, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Mercedes Bresso, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43

Motion for a resolution Amendment

43. Stresses that, following the creation 43. Stresses that, following the creation of the role of EU Finance Minister, the of the role of EU Finance Minister, Eurogroup should be considered as a Parliament should accordingly create an specialised configuration of the Council independent technical body, with a role with legislative and control functions but similar to that of the Congressional no executive tasks; Budget Office in the United States of America, in order to support and enhance its political control over economic and fiscal matters, and the Eurogroup should be considered as a formal specialised configuration of the Council with legislative and control functions but no executive tasks;

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Or. en

Amendment 936 Barbara Spinelli

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43

Motion for a resolution Amendment

43. Stresses that, following the 43. Stresses that the functions of the creation of the role of EU Finance Eurogroup should be taken over by the Minister, the Eurogroup should be relevant specialised configuration of the considered as a specialised configuration Council; of the Council with legislative and control functions but no executive tasks;

Or. en

Amendment 937 Rainer Wieland

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43

Motion for a resolution Amendment

43. Stresses that, following the 43. Stresses that the Eurogroup should creation of the role of EU Finance be considered as a specialised Minister, the Eurogroup should be configuration of the Council with considered as a specialised configuration of legislative and control functions; the Council with legislative and control functions but no executive tasks;

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Amendment 938 Markus Pieper

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 939 Eleftherios Synadinos

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43

Motion for a resolution Amendment

43. Stresses that, following the 43. Stresses that, following any creation of the role of EU Finance institutional changes, the Eurogroup Minister, the Eurogroup should be remains as the main economic political considered as a specialised configuration institution; of the Council with legislative and control functions but no executive tasks;

Or. el

Amendment 940. Fabio Massimo Castaldo

Motion for a Resolution Paragraph 43

Motion for a Resolution Amendment

43. Stresses that, following the 43. stresses that the Eurogroup should creation of the role of EU Finance be considered as a specialised Minister, the Eurogroup should be configuration of the Council with considered as a specialised configuration of legislative and control functions but no the Council with legislative and control executive tasks; functions but no executive tasks;

Or. it

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Amendment 941 Luke Ming Flanagan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43

Motion for a resolution Amendment

43. Stresses that, following the 43. Stresses that the Eurogroup should creation of the role of EU Finance be considered as merely a specialised Minister, the Eurogroup should be configuration of the Council with considered as a specialised configuration of legislative and control functions but no the Council with legislative and control executive tasks; functions but no executive tasks;

Or. en

Amendment 942 Roberto Gualtieri

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

43a. Calls for a switch, with limited exceptions, of the voting procedures in the Council which require unanimity to qualified majority, and for the existing special legislative procedures to be converted into ordinary legislative procedures;

Or. en

Amendment 943 Jo Leinen

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43 a (new)

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

43a. Calls for the creation of an independent European Competition Authority;

Or. en

Amendment 944 Roberto Gualtieri

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 43 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

43b. Underlines that such limited exceptions referred to in par 43a should not concern tax matters under art. 113 TFEU, art. 192(2)a and art. 194(3) as well as for the deletion of the exclusion clause in art. 114(2) TFEU as far as fiscal provisions are concerned;

Or. en

Amendment 945 Max Andersson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44

Motion for a resolution Amendment

44. Proposes that, when Parliament deleted and the Council vote on legislation specific to the euro area, only MEPs elected in the euro area and respectively representatives of its Member States, can take part in the vote;

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Amendment 946 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. el

Amendment 947 Alain Lamassoure

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. fr

Amendment 948 Barbara Spinelli

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44

Motion for a resolution Amendment

44. Proposes that, when Parliament deleted and the Council vote on legislation specific to the euro area, only MEPs elected in the euro area and respectively

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representatives of its member states, can take part in the vote;

Or. en

Amendment 949 Cristian Dan Preda

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 950 György Schöpflin

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 951 Charles Goerens, Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44

Motion for a resolution Amendment

44. Proposes that, when Parliament and 44. Proposes that, when Parliament and the Council vote on legislation specific to the Council vote on legislation specific to the euro area, only MEPs elected in the the euro area, all MEPs can take part in euro area and respectively representatives the vote; however, only the votes from of its member states, can take part in the MEPs elected in the euro area and vote; respectively representatives of its member states are taken into account while the votes of the MEPs and representatives from non-euro area member states are considered as non-binding advisory votes in order to preserve the unique institutional set-up;

Or. en

Amendment 952 Jo Leinen, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Mercedes Bresso, Pedro Silva Pereira, Pervenche Berès

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44

Motion for a resolution Amendment

44. Proposes that, when Parliament and 44. Proposes that, after the adoption of the Council vote on legislation specific to a budgetary capacity for the Eurozone, the euro area, only MEPs elected in the when Parliament and the Council vote on euro area and respectively representatives legislation specific to the euro area, the of its member states, can take part in the interests of those non-euro countries that vote; are obliged and expected to join the EMU should be considered; proposes that arrangements should be found that only MEPs elected in the euro area take part in the vote on matters related to the Eurozone budgetary capacity;

Or. en

Amendment 953 Sylvie Goulard

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44

Motion for a resolution Amendment

44. Proposes that, when Parliament and 44. Proposes that, when Parliament and the Council vote on legislation specific to the Council vote on legislation specific to the euro area, only MEPs elected in the the euro area, only MEPs elected in the euro area and respectively representatives euro area and respectively representatives of its member states, can take part in the of its member states, can take part in the vote; vote in order to ensure that democratic control and accountability is undertaken by the members of the Eurozone;

Or. en

Amendment 954 Luke Ming Flanagan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44

Motion for a resolution Amendment

44. Proposes that, when Parliament 44. Rejects the proposal that when and the Council vote on legislation specific Parliament and the Council vote on to the euro area, only MEPs elected in the legislation specific to the euro area, only euro area and respectively representatives MEPs elected in the euro area and of its member states, can take part in the respectively representatives of its member vote; states, can take part in the vote, given that any such decision impacts right across the EU;

Or. en

Amendment 955 Diane James

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44

Motion for a resolution Amendment

44. Proposes that, when Parliament and 44. Proposes that, when Parliament and

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the Council vote on legislation specific to the Council vote on legislation specific to the euro area, only MEPs elected in the the euro area, all MEPs take part in the euro area and respectively representatives vote; of its member states, can take part in the vote;

Or. en

Amendment 956 Pascal Durand on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44

Motion for a resolution Amendment

44. Proposes that, when Parliament 44. Proposes that, when Council vote and the Council vote on legislation on legislation specific to the euro area, specific to the euro area, only MEPs only representatives of its member states, elected in the euro area and respectively can take part in the vote; representatives of its member states, can take part in the vote;

Or. en

Amendment 957 Morten Messerschmidt

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

44a. Believes that when the Parliament and the Council vote on legislation, irrespective of whether it is specific Eurozone measure or not, all elected MEPs and respective representatives of its Member States should take part in the vote ;

Or. en

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Amendment 958 Jo Leinen, Mercedes Bresso, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Pedro Silva Pereira, Pervenche Berès

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 44 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

44a. Calls on Member States without a derogation to clarify their engagement with regard to the common currency, and on those of them who fulfil the accession criteria to adopt the euro as soon as possible;

Or. en

Amendment 959 Jo Leinen, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Mercedes Bresso, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45

Motion for a resolution Amendment

45. Believes that, in strengthening the deleted governance of the euro area, due respect should be paid to the interests of Member States that are not yet part of the euro (the ‘pre-ins’);

Or. en

Amendment 960 Andrey Kovatchev

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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States that are not yet part of the euro (the States that are not yet part of the euro (the ‘pre-ins’); ‘pre-ins’); Believes further that, the measures for strengthening the governance should not hamper the transition to the euro area of the Member States that are not yet part of it; Recommends that, the Member States that want to participate in all of EU policies, should approve the roadmap for adoption of the euro on an urgent basis and within a predefined timetable;

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Amendment 961 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45

Motion for a resolution Amendment

45. Believes that, in strengthening the 45. Believes that, in redefining the governance of the euro area, due respect governmental functions of the euro area, should be paid to the interests of Member due respect should be paid to the interests States that are not yet part of the euro (the of Member States that are not yet part of ‘pre-ins’); the euro (the ‘pre-ins’);

Or. en

Amendment 962 Max Andersson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45

Motion for a resolution Amendment

45. Believes that, in strengthening the 45. Believes that, in strengthening the governance of the euro area, due respect governance of the euro area, due respect should be paid to the interests of Member should be paid to the interests of Member States that are not yet part of the euro (the States that are not part of the euro (the ‘pre-ins’); ‘pre-ins’);

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Amendment 963 Daciana Octavia Sârbu

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

45a. Underlines the important contribution that the European Economic and Social committee and the Committee of Regions can make to enhancing the democratic legitimacy of the European Union and calls for the increase in their capacity to directly impact on policy- shaping and legislative processes by including them at the earliest stage possible in the EU s legislative programming and through a formal acknowledgement of their role in the assessment of EU s policies and legislation.

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Amendment 964 Daciana Octavia Sârbu

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 45 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

45b. Considers that the European Economic and Social Committee should be an active part in the policy shaping and legislative processes at the earliest stage possible and contribute more effectively to these processes, as a result of enhanced dialogue with civil society organisations and reinforced social dialogue.

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Amendment 965 Morten Messerschmidt, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46

Motion for a resolution Amendment

46. Recognises the significant role 46. Recognizes the significant role that played by national parliaments in the should now be played by national constitutional order of the European Union, parliaments in the constitutional order and and in particular their role in transposing the democratic legitimation of the EU legislation into national law and the European Union, and in particular their role they would play in both ex-ante and role in transposing EU legislation into ex-post control of legislative decisions and national law and the role they should play policy choices made by their members of in both ex-ante and ex-post control of the new Council of States, including its legislative decisions and policy choices specialised configurations; suggests made by their members of the new Council therefore complementing and enhancing of States, including its specialised the powers of national parliaments by configurations; suggests therefore introducing a ‘green card’ procedure complementing and enhancing the powers whereby national parliaments could submit of national parliaments by introducing a legislative proposals to the Council for its ‘green card’ procedure whereby national consideration; parliaments could submit legislative binding instructions to the Commission in the exercise of its initiative power ; as well emphasizes the need to strengthen the role of national parliaments by an efficient use of ‘yellow’ and ‘red card’ to make it possible for a group of national parliaments acting together to block an indicated legislative proposal whose author would then be forced to withdraw it ;

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Amendment 966 Cristian Dan Preda

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46

Motion for a resolution Amendment

46. Recognises the significant role 46. Recognises the significant role played by national parliaments in the played by national parliaments in the

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constitutional order of the European Union, constitutional order of the European Union, and in particular their role in transposing and in particular their role in transposing EU legislation into national law and the EU legislation into national law and the role they would play in both ex-ante and role they would play in both ex-ante and ex-post control of legislative decisions and ex-post control of legislative decisions and policy choices made by their members of policy choices made by their members of the new Council of States, including its the new Council of States, including its specialised configurations; suggests specialised configurations; suggests therefore complementing and enhancing therefore enhancing the powers of national the powers of national parliaments by parliaments by using the existing introducing a ‘green card’ procedure mechanisms in the treaties more whereby national parliaments could submit effectively; recommends to further use the legislative proposals to the Council for its network of representatives of national consideration; parliaments to raise the awareness about the subsidiarity and proportionality principles and to improve the functioning of IPEX that should be considered as an indispensable tool for raising the participation and activity of national parliaments in the EU legislative process.;

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Amendment 967 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46

Motion for a resolution Amendment

46. Recognises the significant role 46. Recognises the significant role played by national parliaments in the played by national parliaments in the constitutional order of the European Union, constitutional order of the European Union, and in particular their role in transposing and in particular their role in transposing EU legislation into national law and the EU legislation into national law and the role they would play in both ex-ante and role they would play in both ex-ante and ex-post control of legislative decisions and ex-post control of legislative decisions and policy choices made by their members of policy choices made by their members of the new Council of States, including its the new Council of States, including its specialised configurations; suggests specialised configurations; suggests therefore complementing and enhancing therefore complementing and enhancing the powers of national parliaments by the powers of national parliaments by introducing a ‘green card’ procedure introducing a ‘green card’ procedure whereby national parliaments could submit whereby national parliaments could submit legislative proposals to the Council for its legislative proposals to the Council for its consideration; also stresses the need to

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consideration; strengthen the role of national parliaments through effective use of the ‘yellow and orange card’ procedure, whereby a group of national parliaments, acting together, could block a particular legislative proposal;

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Amendment 968 Martina Anderson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46

Motion for a resolution Amendment

46. Recognises the significant role 46. Recognises the significant role played by national parliaments in the played by national parliaments in the constitutional order of the European Union, constitutional order of the European Union, and in particular their role in transposing and in particular their role in transposing EU legislation into national law and the EU legislation into national law; suggests role they would play in both ex-ante and enhancing the powers of national ex-post control of legislative decisions and parliaments by introducing a ‘green card’ policy choices made by their members of procedure whereby national parliaments the new Council of States, including its could submit legislative proposals to the specialised configurations; suggests Council for its consideration; therefore complementing and enhancing the powers of national parliaments by introducing a ‘green card’ procedure whereby national parliaments could submit legislative proposals to the Council for its consideration;

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Amendment 969 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46

Motion for a resolution Amendment

46. Recognises the significant role 46. Recognises the significant role

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played by national parliaments in the played by national parliaments in the constitutional order of the European Union, constitutional order of the European Union, and in particular their role in transposing and in particular their role in transposing EU legislation into national law and the EU legislation into national law and the role they would play in both ex-ante and role they would play in both ex-ante and ex-post control of legislative decisions and ex-post control of legislative decisions and policy choices made by their members of policy choices made by their members of the new Council of States, including its the new Council of States, including its specialised configurations; suggests specialised configurations; suggests therefore complementing and enhancing therefore immediately complementing and the powers of national parliaments by enhancing the powers of national introducing a ‘green card’ procedure parliaments by introducing a ‘green card’ whereby national parliaments could submit procedure whereby national parliaments legislative proposals to the Council for its could submit legislative proposals to the consideration; Council for its consideration;

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Amendment 970 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46

Motion for a resolution Amendment

46. Recognises the significant role 46. Recognises the significant role played by national parliaments in the played by national parliaments in the constitutional order of the European current institutional order of the European Union, and in particular their role in Union, and in particular their role in transposing EU legislation into national transposing EU legislation into national law and the role they would play in both law and the role they would play in both ex-ante and ex-post control of legislative ex-ante and ex-post control of legislative decisions and policy choices made by their decisions and policy choices made by their members of the new Council of States, members of the Council, including its including its specialised configurations; specialised configurations; suggests suggests therefore complementing and therefore complementing and enhancing enhancing the powers of national the powers of national parliaments by parliaments by introducing a ‘green card’ introducing a ‘green card’ procedure procedure whereby national parliaments whereby national parliaments could submit could submit legislative proposals to the legislative proposals to the Council for its Council for its consideration; consideration;

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Amendment 971 Jo Leinen, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Mercedes Bresso, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46

Motion for a resolution Amendment

46. Recognises the significant role 46. Recognises the significant role played by national parliaments in the played by national parliaments in the constitutional order of the European Union, constitutional order of the European Union, and in particular their role in transposing and in particular their role in transposing EU legislation into national law and the EU legislation into national law and the role they would play in both ex-ante and role they play in both ex-ante and ex-post ex-post control of legislative decisions and control of legislative decisions and policy policy choices made by their members of choices made by their members of the the new Council of States, including its Council of the European Union; considers specialised configurations; suggests that the political dialogue between therefore complementing and enhancing national parliaments and the European the powers of national parliaments by Parliament should be intensified and introducing a ‘green card’ procedure made more meaningful and substantial, whereby national parliaments could without overstepping the limits of their submit legislative proposals to the Council respective constitutional competences; for its consideration;

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Amendment 972 Paulo Rangel

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46

Motion for a resolution Amendment

46. Recognises the significant role 46. Recognises the significant role played by national parliaments in the played by national parliaments in the constitutional order of the European Union, constitutional order of the European Union, and in particular their role in transposing and in particular their role in transposing EU legislation into national law and the EU legislation into national law and the role they would play in both ex-ante and role they would play in both ex-ante and ex-post control of legislative decisions and ex-post control of legislative decisions and policy choices made by their members of policy choices made by the members of the the new Council of States, including its Council, including its specialised specialised configurations; suggests configurations; suggests therefore therefore complementing and enhancing complementing and enhancing the powers

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the powers of national parliaments by of national parliaments by introducing a introducing a ‘green card’ procedure ‘green card’ procedure whereby national whereby national parliaments could submit parliaments could submit legislative legislative proposals to the Council for its proposals to the Commission for its consideration; consideration;

Or. en

Amendment 973. Fabio Massimo Castaldo

Motion for a Resolution Paragraph 46 a (new)

Motion for a Resolution Amendment

46a Considers it necessary, in view of the full respect for democratic principles that are the foundation of the Union and for the constitutional traditions common to the Member States that comprise it, the insertion in the Treaty, of the possibility for a Member State to withdraw membership from the Euro zone, through a process assisted by the ECB and the European Commission acting as much in the interests of the withdrawing State as in those of the remaining members from the risk of speculative attacks and economic shocks, especially during the transition period;

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Amendment 974 Izaskun Bilbao Barandica

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

46a. Points out the need to include regions with legislative powers in this process with a view to improving the time

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frames and procedures established in Annex 2 to the current subsidiarity protocol of the TFEU; national reports should compulsorily include the observations on subsidiarity issued by the regional authorities, which should have longer than the eight-week time frame currently provided for in the protocol;

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Amendment 975 Paulo Rangel, Cristian Dan Preda, Viviane Reding, Alain Lamassoure

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

46a. Albeit respecting the role of national parliaments and the principle of subsidiarity, acknowledges the EU’s exclusive competences on Common Commercial Policy; calls for a clear delimitation of competences between the Union and the Member States in this respect; notes that this delimitation would have positive effects on jobs and growth both in the EU and in its trading partners;

Or. en

Amendment 976 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 46 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

46a. Further suggests that the application by national parliaments of the yellow card procedure referred to in Article 7 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of

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subsidiarity and proportionality was a sufficient reason to stop a legislative procedure;

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Amendment 977 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47

Motion for a resolution Amendment

47. Proposes moreover that, in line deleted with the common practice in a number of Member States, both chambers of the EU legislature, Parliament and the Council, should be given the right of legislative initiative, without prejudice to the basic legislative prerogative of the European executive or government;

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Amendment 978 Sylvie Goulard, Charles Goerens

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47

Motion for a resolution Amendment

47. Proposes moreover that, in line 47. Proposes moreover that, in line with the common practice in a number of with the common practice in a number of Member States, both chambers of the EU Member States, both chambers of the EU legislature, Parliament and the Council, legislature, Parliament and the Council, should be given the right of legislative should be given the right of legislative initiative, without prejudice to the basic initiative, as long as the initiative is legislative prerogative of the European supported by a range of Member States executive or government; and that the rights of smaller Member States and minority positions are protected, without prejudice to the basic legislative prerogative of the European executive or government;

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Or. en

Amendment 979. Fabio Massimo Castaldo

Motion for a Resolution Paragraph 47

Motion for a Resolution Amendment

47. Proposes moreover that, in line 47. proposes moreover, that in line with with the common practice in a number of the common practice in a number of Member States, both chambers of the EU Member States, both chambers of the EU legislature, Parliament and the Council, legislature, the Council and in particular should be given the right of legislative the Parliament, as the only institution initiative, without prejudice to the basic directly elected by citizens, should be given legislative prerogative of the European the right of legislative initiative, without executive or government; prejudice to the basic legislative prerogative of the European executive or government;

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Amendment 980 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 981 Esther de Lange

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 982 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47

Motion for a resolution Amendment

47. Proposes moreover that, in line 47. Proposes moreover that, in line with the common practice in a number of with the common practice in a number of Member States, both chambers of the EU Member States, both chambers of the EU legislature, Parliament and the Council, legislature, Parliament and the Council, should be given the right of legislative should be given the right of legislative initiative, without prejudice to the basic initiative, without prejudice to the basic legislative prerogative of the European legislative prerogative of the European executive or government; Commission;

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Amendment 983 Sylvie Goulard, Charles Goerens

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 a (new)

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

47a. Recalls that legislation provides for the suspension of ESI Funds if a Member State fails to take action concerning the violation of the Stability and Growth Pact (Excessive Deficit Procedure); believes a fortiori that the EU should link the payment of all EU funds with the respect of European values, as laid out in the Treaties;

Or. en

Amendment 984 Roberto Gualtieri

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

47a. Advocates the introduction of the ordinary legislative procedure for the adoption of the broad guidelines of the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union under Article 121(2) TFEU and of the employment guidelines under Article 148(2) TFEU;

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Amendment 985 Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Jo Leinen

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

47a. Considers that the ‘unanimity rule’ in the Council, wherever it is still applied as in foreign and defence matters, fiscal affairs and social policy, needs to be

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abolished;

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Amendment 986 Jo Leinen, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Mercedes Bresso, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

47a. Calls for the full replacement of the consultation procedure by co-decision between Parliament and Council;

Or. en

Amendment 987 Jo Leinen

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

47b. Is of the opinion that under Articles 245 and 247 TFEU the European Parliament, and not only the Council and the Commission, should have the right to take action before the European Court of Justice in case a member or former member of the European Commission breaches his obligations under the Treaties, is guilty of serious misconduct, or does not longer fulfil the conditions required for the performance of his duties;

Or. en

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Amendment 988 Roberto Gualtieri

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

47b. Favours inclusion in the decision- making procedures under Article 121(4) TFEU and Article 148(4) TFEU of the right of Parliament to propose amendments to a Commission proposal for a recommendation before its adoption by the Commission, while acknowledging that the multilateral surveillance procedure requires quick decision- making;

Or. en

Amendment 989 Roberto Gualtieri

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 47 c (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

47c. Calls for the inclusion of Parliament in the budgetary surveillance procedure under Article 126 TFEU, with the right to amend a Commission proposal for a recommendation which can be rejected by a qualified majority of the Council if the Commission delivers a negative opinion;

Or. en

Amendment 990 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 48

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 991 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 48

Motion for a resolution Amendment

48. Insists that Parliament’s right of 48. Insists that Parliament’s right of inquiry should be reinforced and be inquiry should be reinforced and be granted specific, genuine and clearly granted specific, genuine and clear powers delimited powers which are more in line which are more in line with its political with its political stature and competences, stature and competences, including the including the right to summon witnesses, to right to summon witnesses, to have full have full access to documents, to conduct access to documents, to conduct on-the- on-the-spot investigations and to impose spot investigations and to impose sanctions sanctions for non-compliance; for non-compliance; therefore, calls on the Commission to advance the negotiations on the Parliament’s proposal on a regulation on Parliament’s Right of Inquiry;

Or. en

Amendment 992 Izaskun Bilbao Barandica

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 48 a (new)

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

48a. Points out that corruption is one of the problems that undermines the credibility of state and European institution and calls for a European framework of minimums to be established to prevent and eradicate such behaviour;

Or. es

Amendment 993 Martina Anderson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 49

Motion for a resolution Amendment

49. Recalls its conviction that the deleted financing of the EU budget should respect the letter and the spirit of the Treaty and return to a system of genuine, clear, simple and fair own resources; stresses that the reintroduction of such resources would put an end to the share of GNI- based contributions and thus lessen the burden on national treasuries; awaits with interest the proposals from the high-level group on own resources in this respect;

Or. en

Amendment 994 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 49

Motion for a resolution Amendment

49. Recalls its conviction that the 49. awaits with interest the proposals financing of the EU budget should respect from the high-level group on own the letter and the spirit of the Treaty and resources in this respect; return to a system of genuine, clear,

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simple and fair own resources; stresses that the reintroduction of such resources would put an end to the share of GNI- based contributions and thus lessen the burden on national treasuries; awaits with interest the proposals from the high-level group on own resources in this respect;

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Amendment 995 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 49

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 996. Fabio Massimo Castaldo

Motion for a Resolution Paragraph 49

Motion for a Resolution Amendment

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reintroduction of such resources would put corrective taxation of negative an end to the share of GNI-based externalities arising from economic contributions and thus lessen the burden on activity, as with taxes on financial national treasuries; awaits with interest the transactions and Carbon tax; stresses that proposals from the high-level group on the reintroduction of such resources would own resources in this respect; put an end to the share of GNI-based contributions and thus lessen the burden on national treasuries; awaits with interest the proposals from the high-level group on own resources in this respect;

Or. it

Amendment 997 Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 49

Motion for a resolution Amendment

49. Recalls its conviction that the 49. Recalls its conviction that the financing of the EU budget should respect financing of the EU budget should respect the letter and the spirit of the Treaty and the letter and the spirit of the Treaty and return to a system of genuine, clear, simple return to a system of genuine, clear, simple and fair own resources; stresses that the and fair own resources; stresses that the reintroduction of such resources would put reintroduction of such resources would put an end to the share of GNI-based an end to the share of GNI-based contributions and thus lessen the burden on contributions and thus lessen the burden on national treasuries; awaits with interest the national treasuries, as well as give proposals from the high-level group on independence to financing pan-European own resources in this respect; projects and politics in all areas of EU; awaits with interest the proposals from the high-level group on own resources in this respect;

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Amendment 998 Eleftherios Synadinos

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 49

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

49. Recalls its conviction that the 49. Recalls its conviction that the financing of the EU budget should respect financing of the EU budget should respect the letter and the spirit of the Treaty and the letter and the spirit of the Treaty and return to a system of genuine, clear, simple return to a system of genuine, clear, simple and fair own resources; stresses that the and fair own resources; stresses that the reintroduction of such resources would put reintroduction of such resources, such as an end to the share of GNI-based the EU bonds, would put an end to the contributions and thus lessen the burden on share of GNI-based contributions and thus national treasuries; awaits with interest the lessen the burden on national treasuries; proposals from the high-level group on awaits with interest the proposals from the own resources in this respect; high-level group on own resources in this respect;

Or. el

Amendment 999 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 50

Motion for a resolution Amendment

50. Proposes in this regard that the deleted decision-making procedures for both own resources and the MFF should be shifted from unanimity to qualified majority voting, thereby inducing real co-decision between the Council and Parliament on all budgetary matters; repeats its call, furthermore, to make the MFF coterminous with the mandates of Parliament and the European executive, and insists that the finances of all Union agencies should become an integral part of the EU budget;

Or. pl

Amendment 1000 Martina Anderson

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 50

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 1001 Max Andersson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 50

Motion for a resolution Amendment

50. Proposes in this regard that the 50. repeats its call, furthermore, to decision-making procedures for both own make the MFF coterminous with the resources and the MFF should be shifted mandates of Parliament and the European from unanimity to qualified majority executive, and insists that the finances of voting, thereby inducing real co-decision all Union agencies should become an between the Council and Parliament on integral part of the EU budget; all budgetary matters; repeats its call, furthermore, to make the MFF coterminous with the mandates of Parliament and the European executive, and insists that the finances of all Union agencies should become an integral part of the EU budget;

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Amendment 1002 Beatrix von Storch

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 50

Motion for a resolution Amendment

50. Proposes in this regard that the 50. Proposes in this regard that the decision-making procedures for both own decision-making procedures for both own resources and the MFF should be shifted resources and the MFF should be shifted from unanimity to qualified majority back to unanimity; repeats its call, voting, thereby inducing real co-decision furthermore, to make the MFF coterminous between the Council and Parliament on with the mandates of Parliament and the all budgetary matters; repeats its call, European executive, and insists that the furthermore, to make the MFF coterminous finances of all Union agencies should with the mandates of Parliament and the become an integral part of the EU budget; European executive, and insists that the finances of all Union agencies should become an integral part of the EU budget;

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Amendment 1003 Eleftherios Synadinos

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 50

Motion for a resolution Amendment

50. Proposes in this regard that the 50. Proposes in this regard that the decision-making procedures for both own decision-making procedures for both own resources and the MFF should be shifted resources and the MFF should continue to from unanimity to qualified majority be carried out on the basis of unanimity; voting, thereby inducing real co-decision repeats its call to make the MFF between the Council and Parliament on coterminous with the mandates of all budgetary matters; repeats its call, Parliament and the European executive, furthermore, to make the MFF and insists that the finances of all Union coterminous with the mandates of agencies should become an integral part of Parliament and the European executive, the EU budget; and insists that the finances of all Union agencies should become an integral part of the EU budget;

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Amendment 1004 Esther de Lange

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 50

Motion for a resolution Amendment

50. Proposes in this regard that the 50. Proposes in this regard to introduce decision-making procedures for both own co-decision between the Council and resources and the MFF should be shifted Parliament for own resources and the from unanimity to qualified majority MFF and proposes that the decision- voting, thereby inducing real co-decision making procedure for the MFF should be between the Council and Parliament on shifted from unanimity to qualified all budgetary matters; repeats its call, majority voting in Council; repeats its call, furthermore, to make the MFF coterminous furthermore, to make the MFF coterminous with the mandates of Parliament and the with the mandates of Parliament and the European executive, and insists that the European executive, and insists that the finances of all Union agencies should finances of all Union agencies should become an integral part of the EU budget; become an integral part of the EU budget;

Or. en

Amendment 1005 Roberto Gualtieri

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 50 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

50a. Calls for the introduction of a legal basis in order to establish Union agencies which may carry out specific executive and implementing functions conferred upon them by the European parliament and the Council in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure;

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Amendment 1006 Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 50 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

50a. Calls for abolishing the unanimity requirement in areas relating to respect for and protection and promotion of fundamental rights, such as equality and non-discrimination;

Or. en

Amendment 1007 Roberto Gualtieri

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 50 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

50b. Calls on the next Convention to allow for the possibility for the Union to budget for a deficit which shall not exceed reference values to be specified in the Treaties, together with the establishment of proper mechanisms ensuring the avoidance of an excessive deficit at European level;

Or. en

Amendment 1008 Roberto Gualtieri

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 50 c (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

50c. Calls for the establishment of a legal base which empowers the Union to raise own taxes as a proper own resource for the benefit of the Union budget;

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Or. en

Amendment 1009 Beatrix von Storch

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

Motion for a resolution Amendment

52. Believes, finally, that the current deleted Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to befit such a supranational polity as the European Union; proposes allowing amendments to the Treaties to come into force if not by an EU-wide referendum then after being ratified by a qualified majority of four-fifths of the Member States, having obtained the consent of Parliament; correspondingly, once this threshold has been met, Member States which still decline to ratify the amended Treaty should decide, in accordance with their own constitutional requirements, whether to start the process of secession or to opt for an associate status;

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Amendment 1010 Cristian Dan Preda

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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States, having obtained the consent of Parliament; correspondingly, once this threshold has been met, Member States which still decline to ratify the amended Treaty should decide, in accordance with their own constitutional requirements, whether to start the process of secession or to opt for an associate status;

Or. en

Amendment 1011 Luke Ming Flanagan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 1012 György Schöpflin

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 1013 Rainer Wieland

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

Motion for a resolution Amendment

52. Believes, finally, that the current 52. Believes, finally, that the current Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to Treaty ratification procedure is very befit such a supranational polity as the lengthy and linked with political European Union; proposes allowing uncertainties; amendments to the Treaties to come into force if not by an EU-wide referendum then after being ratified by a qualified majority of four-fifths of the Member States, having obtained the consent of Parliament; correspondingly, once this threshold has been met, Member States which still decline to ratify the amended Treaty should decide, in accordance with their own constitutional requirements, whether to start the process of secession or to opt for an associate status;

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Amendment 1014 David McAllister, Markus Pieper

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

Motion for a resolution Amendment

Or. de

Amendment 1015 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

Motion for a resolution Amendment

52. Believes, finally, that the current 52. Believes that respect for the Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid Treaties, legitimacy and continuity of the to befit such a supranational polity as the Union require strict compliance with the European Union; proposes allowing Treaties revision procedure, as set out in amendments to the Treaties to come into Article 48 TEU; force if not by an EU-wide referendum then after being ratified by a qualified majority of four-fifths of the Member

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Amendment 1016 Notis Marias

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

Motion for a resolution Amendment

52. Believes, finally, that the current 52. Proposes allowing amendments to Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid the Treaties to come into force by to befit such a supranational polity as the referendum at each state; notes that European Union; proposes allowing Member States which decline to ratify the amendments to the Treaties to come into amended Treaty should decide, in force if not by an EU-wide referendum accordance with their own constitutional then after being ratified by a qualified requirements, whether to start the process majority of four-fifths of the Member of secession or to opt for an associate States, having obtained the consent of status; Parliament; correspondingly, once this threshold has been met, Member States which still decline to ratify the amended Treaty should decide, in accordance with their own constitutional requirements, whether to start the process of secession or to opt for an associate status;

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Amendment 1017 Morten Messerschmidt, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

52. Believes, finally, that the current 52. Believes that respect for the Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid Treaties, its signatory Members’ to befit such a supranational polity as the legitimacy, State of Law, democratic will European Union; proposes allowing expressed through every referenda amendments to the Treaties to come into organized in Europe for more than 10 force if not by an EU-wide referendum years, and viability of the Union itself then after being ratified by a qualified require strict compliance with procedures majority of four-fifths of the Member for revision of the Treaties provided in States, having obtained the consent of Article 48-1 to 5 TEU; Parliament; correspondingly, once this threshold has been met, Member States which still decline to ratify the amended Treaty should decide, in accordance with their own constitutional requirements, whether to start the process of secession or to opt for an associate status;

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Amendment 1018 Paulo Rangel, Constance Le Grip

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

Motion for a resolution Amendment

52. Believes, finally, that the current 52. Believes, finally, that the current Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to befit such a supranational polity as the befit such a supranational polity as the European Union; proposes allowing European Union; proposes allowing amendments to the Treaties to come into amendments to the Treaties to come into force if not by an EU-wide referendum force after being ratified by a qualified then after being ratified by a qualified majority of four-fifths of the Member majority of four-fifths of the Member States, having obtained the consent of the States, having obtained the consent of Parliament; Parliament; correspondingly, once this threshold has been met, Member States which still decline to ratify the amended Treaty should decide, in accordance with their own constitutional requirements, whether to start the process of secession or to opt for an associate status;

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Amendment 1019 Jo Leinen, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Mercedes Bresso

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

Motion for a resolution Amendment

52. Believes, finally, that the current 52. Believes that the Treaty ratification Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to procedure could be amended allowing befit such a supranational polity as the changes to the Treaties to come into force European Union; proposes allowing by an EU-wide referendum with a double amendments to the Treaties to come into majority, i.e. a majority of the European force if not by an EU-wide referendum electorate and a positive public vote then after being ratified by a qualified within a majority of the Member States or majority of four-fifths of the Member after being ratified by a qualified majority States, having obtained the consent of of four-fifths of the Member States, Parliament; correspondingly, once this having obtained the consent of threshold has been met, Member States Parliament; which still decline to ratify the amended Treaty should decide, in accordance with their own constitutional requirements, whether to start the process of secession or to opt for an associate status;

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Amendment 1020 Martina Anderson

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

Motion for a resolution Amendment

52. Believes, finally, that the current 52. Believes, that the current Treaty Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to ratification procedure while rigid, is the befit such a supranational polity as the best way for Treaty ratification; proposes European Union; proposes allowing allowing amendments to the Treaties to amendments to the Treaties to come into come into force if not by an EU-wide force if not by an EU-wide referendum referendums; believes that if Member then after being ratified by a qualified States, through the democratic will of its majority of four-fifths of the Member people choose not to ratify a Treaty, then

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States, having obtained the consent of that decision must be respected as that Parliament; correspondingly, once this Treaty will have failed in one of its main threshold has been met, Member States responsibilities, to represent the views of which still decline to ratify the amended the citizens of Europe; Treaty should decide, in accordance with their own constitutional requirements, whether to start the process of secession or to opt for an associate status;

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Amendment 1021 Ramon Tremosa i Balcells

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

Motion for a resolution Amendment

52. Believes, finally, that the current 52. Believes, finally, that the current Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to befit such a supranational polity as the befit such a supranational polity as the European Union; proposes allowing European Union; proposes allowing amendments to the Treaties to come into amendments to the Treaties to come into force if not by an EU-wide referendum force if not by an EU-wide referendum then after being ratified by a qualified then after being ratified by a qualified majority of four-fifths of the Member majority of four-fifths of the Member States, having obtained the consent of States, having obtained the consent of Parliament; correspondingly, once this Parliament; correspondingly, once this threshold has been met, Member States threshold has been met, Member States which still decline to ratify the amended which still decline to ratify the amended Treaty should decide, in accordance with Treaty should decide, in accordance with their own constitutional requirements, their own constitutional requirements, whether to start the process of secession or whether to start the process of secession or to opt for an associate status; to opt for an associate status; considers that the unanimity rule shall not be applied to the membership of new Member States.

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Amendment 1022 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

Motion for a resolution Amendment

52. Believes, finally, that the current 52. Believes, finally, that the current Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to befit such a supranational polity as the befit such a shift of supranational polity in European Union; proposes allowing the European Union; proposes allowing amendments to the Treaties to come into amendments to the Treaties to come into force if not by an EU-wide referendum force by exploring the possibility to have then after being ratified by a qualified an EU-wide referendum to be held majority of four-fifths of the Member simultaneously in all the Member States States, having obtained the consent of or after being ratified by the Member Parliament; correspondingly, once this States, having obtained the consent of threshold has been met, Member States Parliament; Member States which decline which still decline to ratify the amended to ratify the amended Treaty should Treaty should decide, in accordance with negotiate their status and the future their own constitutional requirements, relationships with the Union; whether to start the process of secession or to opt for an associate status;

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Amendment 1023. Fabio Massimo Castaldo

Motion for a Resolution Paragraph 52

Motion for a Resolution Amendment

52. Believes, finally, that the current 52. Believes, finally, that the current Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to befit such a supranational polity as the befit such a supranational polity as the European Union; proposes allowing European Union; proposes allowing amendments to the Treaties to come into amendments to the Treaties to come into force if not by an EU-wide referendum force if not by an EU-wide referendum then after being ratified by a qualified then after being ratified by a qualified majority of four-fifths of the Member majority of four-fifths of the Member States, having obtained the consent of States, having obtained the consent of Parliament; notes that, once this threshold Parliament; notes that, once this threshold has been met, Member States which still has been met, Member States which for decline to ratify the amended Treaty governmental or popular reasons, decide should decide, in accordance with their not to ratify the amended Treaty should own constitutional requirements, whether decide, in accordance with their own to start the process of secession or to opt constitutional requirements, whether to

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for an associate status; start the process of secession or to opt for an associate status;

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Amendment 1024 Eleftherios Synadinos

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52

Motion for a resolution Amendment

52. Believes, finally, that the current 52. Believes, finally, that the current Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to Treaty ratification procedure is the most befit such a supranational polity as the democratic, but proposes allowing European Union; proposes allowing amendments to the Treaties to come into amendments to the Treaties to come into force if not by an EU-wide referendum force if not by an EU-wide referendum then after being ratified by a qualified then after being ratified by a qualified majority of four-fifths of the Member majority of four-fifths of the Member States, having obtained the consent of States, having obtained the consent of Parliament; correspondingly, once this Parliament; correspondingly, once this threshold has been met, Member States threshold has been met, Member States which still decline to ratify the amended which still decline to ratify the amended Treaty should decide, in accordance with Treaty should decide, in accordance with their own constitutional requirements, their own constitutional requirements, whether to start the process of secession or whether to start the process of secession or to opt for an associate status; to opt for an associate status;

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Amendment 1025 Dennis de Jong

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

52a. Underlines that European policy and decision-making pertaining to it should be transparent and open to the scrutiny of anyone; stresses that public access to policy papers should not be subject to the arbitrary decisions of

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European institutions;

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Amendment 1026 Ramon Tremosa i Balcells

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

52a. Believes that European citizens and enterprises inside current Member States that show a democratic will to keep being part of the EU shall be protected.

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Amendment 1027 Dennis de Jong

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

52b. Notes that large companies currently have a disproportionately strong influence on European legislation; stresses that the influence of lobbyists should be transparent and that all interests, including those of for instance SMEs, the environment, trade unions and consumers, should be taken into equal account;

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Amendment 1028 Ramon Tremosa i Balcells

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 52 b (new)

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Motion for a resolution Amendment

52b. Believes that a time of rising euroskepticism and anti-European populism, pro-European movements inside Member States are welcome, even if they challenge their national status-quo.

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Amendment 1029 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Ulrike Trebesius

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 53

Motion for a resolution Amendment

53. Commits itself to playing a leading 53. Requests the Council and the part in these important constitutional European Commission to hold an developments, and is determined to make interinstitutional debate that will initiate a its own proposals for Treaty amendment process for enhancing the Union within in a timely fashion; the applicable Treaty framework and evaluate the execution of tasks and competences in the context of Union legitimacy, efficiency and accountability;

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Amendment 1030 Eleftherios Synadinos

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 53

Motion for a resolution Amendment

53. Commits itself to playing a leading 53. Commits itself to playing a part in these important constitutional constitutional part in these important developments, and is determined to make constitutional developments, and is its own proposals for Treaty amendment in determined to make its own proposals for a timely fashion; Treaty amendment in a timely fashion;

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Amendment 1031 Pascal Durand on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 53 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

53a. Underlines that primary law of the EU should be strictly limited to institutional provisions and should not deal with the content of policies; therefore parts three and five TFEU should no longer be integrated into the Treaties but rather be governed by framework laws;

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Amendment 1032 Pascal Durand on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 53 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

53b. Insists that the future Convention should have the greatest possible democratic legitimacy by also involving social partners, civil society and other stakeholders; reach its decisions in plenum according to full democratic rules; have adequate time for serious and thorough deliberation; operate with full transparency and have all its meetings open to the public;

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Amendment 1033 Martina Anderson

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 54

Motion for a resolution Amendment

54. Is of the opinion that the 60th 54. Is of the opinion that the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome would anniversary of the Treaty of Rome would be an appropriate moment to modernise the be an appropriate moment to modernise the European Union and to start a Convention European Union and to start a Convention with the purpose of making the European with the purpose of making the European Union ready for the decades ahead; Union fit for purpose, currently and for the decades ahead; also sees this as an incredibly important time for the EU to address the many short fallings and irresponsible decisions which have created a never before seen disunity, mistrust, and bullying within the Union sees this as an opportunity to a social and caring Europe; hopes that this will also lead to a rejection of neoliberalism which has insidiously crept into the whole European project as well as EU institutions; further hopes that this ‘modernisation’ of the European Union will lead to an end to austerity and the repression of European citizens and democratically elected governments in the Member States;

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Amendment 1034 Barbara Spinelli, Helmut Scholz

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 54

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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insignificance;

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Amendment 1035 Jo Leinen, Mercedes Bresso, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Pedro Silva Pereira

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 54

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 1036 Rainer Wieland

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 54

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 1037 David McAllister, Markus Pieper

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 54

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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Amendment 1038 Paulo Rangel, Cristian Dan Preda, Constance Le Grip

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 54

Motion for a resolution Amendment

54. Is of the opinion that the 60th 54. Is of the opinion that the upcoming anniversary of the Treaty of Rome would 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome be an appropriate moment to modernise would be an appropriate moment to launch the European Union and to start a the reflection on to the future of Europe Convention with the purpose of making and agree on a vision for the current and the European Union ready for the future generations of European citizens; decades ahead;

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Amendment 1039 Luke Ming Flanagan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 54

Motion for a resolution Amendment

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ahead;

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