ddrg/super_eurlex huggingface dataset:
48.

Believes that it is the responsibility and role of the Union and its Member States to do more to preserve the European integration process, protect European values and principles, including the principle of sincere cooperation, and prevent the repetition of a withdrawal from the EU; regrets, in this context, the restraint and limited engagement of the European Parliament and its committees in the run-up to the UK referendum, which left UK citizens, who were EU citizens at the time, without full access to information on the functioning of the EU and the implications of the withdrawal; emphasises that safeguards should be established to ensure that the public debate preceding the triggering of Article 50 TEU by a Member State allows for citizens concerned to make an informed decision; calls for the Member States and the EU to consistently provide wide-reaching information to EU citizens on the functioning of the European Union, its areas of action, its decision-making processes, the rights of EU citizens and the consequences of leaving the EU; considers that, for this purpose, the Conference on the Future of Europe offers an opportunity for enhanced dialogue with citizens and civil society on the European Union and how it should evolve; encourages the Commission to come forward with a proposal to allow European political parties to finance referendum campaigns related to the implementation of the TEU or the TFEU;
W.

whereas, in order to achieve those objectives and realise the full potential of the ECI, the procedures and conditions required for the ECI should ensure that initiatives which are valid in the sense of Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/788 are considered and responded to appropriately by the Commission; whereas the Commission is legally obliged to state the action it intends to take on a valid ECI, if any, and to state the reasons for taking or not taking action, which it should do in a clear, comprehensible and detailed manner; whereas at least one million signatures from at least a quarter of the Member States are required for an ECI to be valid and to be submitted to the Commission; whereas Regulation (EU) 2020/1042 has made the time limits for the collection, verification and examination stages more flexible in response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the introduction of temporary measures; whereas the application of those measures has been extended through Commission implementing acts; whereas this regulation is only temporary in nature and applicable only until the end of 2022, which is also the date by which the individual online collection systems provided for by Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2019/788 will be phased out;
61.

Reiterates the importance of research and innovation for the sustainability of the organic farming sector and in meeting societal expectations on biodiversity, climate change and climate adaptation, animal welfare and efficient resource use, and welcomes the Commission’s intention to earmark Horizon Europe funding to support these aims; stresses, in this context, the need for research and innovation to encourage the conversion to organic agriculture, including livestock production, to find alternatives for certain inputs both in farming and processing so as to increase yields and to ensure the availability of the necessary protein feed, vitamins, plant protection products, in particular biocontrol solutions, fertilisers and genetic resources to further develop robust farming systems and increase tolerance to drought, pests and disease; calls on the Commission to stimulate and foster cooperation between research communities working on organic and conventional food and farming, in particular through the agricultural European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI);
4.

Considers that, under the new EU instrument, public authorities, on their own initiative or acting on information they have received, should detain goods at the EU border when they consider that there is sufficient evidence that these goods were made or transported with forced labour; notes that the importer whose goods have been detained should then be given the opportunity to refute this accusation by proving that the goods were not made or transported with forced labour, which may then lead to the release of the goods; underlines that the evidence to prove an absence of forced labour must be based on ILO standards;
23.

Welcomes advances in ensuring equal opportunities and calls for further improvements in the enforcement of gender equality, property rights, data protection, rights of people with disabilities and minority rights in the fields of education, languages, self-identification and the protection of cultural heritage; calls on the authorities to ensure equal treatment for LGBTI+ and Roma minorities and tackle the intersectional discrimination that these groups face through a systemic and effective institutional approach; welcomes the adoption of the by-law on minority education and calls on the government to swiftly adopt the remaining implementing legislation relating to the 2017 framework law on the protection of national minorities, including as regards self-identification and the use of minority languages; urges the authorities to ensure non-discriminatory access to education and calls on Albania to ensure the effective protection of the property rights and cultural heritage of all ethnic and national minorities and that minority groups have equal opportunities and adequate representation in political and cultural life, public media, administration and the judiciary;
15.

Calls on national and EU authorities to take dissuasive and firm action to ensure full compliance with national and EU environmental law; notes that procedural weaknesses and missing checks reduce the Timber Regulation’s effectiveness in practice; urges the EU co-legislators to seize the opportunity presented by the negotiations on the proposal for a regulation on deforestation-free products (COM(2021)0706) to learn lessons from the implementation and enforcement of the EU Timber Regulation and to improve the status of Member States’ competent authorities, the provisions on the quantity and quality of their controls, their relations and interactions with the competent authorities of other Member States and with other national authorities and the Commission; calls on the Member States to strictly implement the provisions of the relevant legislation currently in force by banning the use and placing on the EU market of illegal timber; calls for illegal logging to be treated as a criminal offence, to be subject to appropriate criminal sanctions and to be brought within the scope of the revised directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law, and calls for strengthened European cooperation to combat illegal logging; calls for a uniform definition of illegal logging as an environmental crime in all Member States so as to guarantee that harmonised procedures and penalties are applied for the same illegal logging contraventions across the whole of the EU;
22.

Welcomes the agreement in the Council on 13 April 2022 concerning a third tranche of military support under the European Peace Facility to total EUR 1,5 billion to provide lethal military material and fuel and protective equipment, and calls for their immediate delivery; stresses the importance for the EU, given Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine and the increasingly difficult security environment affecting the stability and governance of our Eastern partners, to strengthen our security and defence cooperation; welcomes the decision of the European Council of 2 December 2021 to utilise the European Peace Facility (EPF) in providing Ukraine with a package of EUR 31 million, Georgia with a package of EUR 12,75 million and the Republic of Moldova with a package of EUR 7 million to assist in strengthening their resilience and defence capabilities, particularly cybersecurity, medical, engineering, mobile and logistics capabilities, and the fight against disinformation; encourages further utilisation of the EPF to increase the ability of associated EaP countries, particularly those facing armed aggression and those hosting CSDP missions, to further address their security needs in key areas such as the equipment necessary to exchange intelligence via secure communication lines and the technical tools needed to counter armed aggression and hybrid threats; underlines the need for the EU to improve material and monetary support to the EaP countries and also focus on capacity building with a view to improving each EaP country’s resilience, in particular in countering disinformation campaigns, as well as in national defence; underlines that the EU needs to develop an integrated approach in order to be able to assist the EaP countries in confronting the mutual interconnected threat landscape;
14.

Underlines the need for the EU to engage in a comprehensive dialogue with China that firmly defends the EU’s interests and values, taking into account the present geopolitically challenging global context, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine; highlights that China is a cooperation and negotiating partner for the EU, but it is also a competitor in an increasing number of areas, and a systemic rival; reiterates, as underlined in its resolution of 16 September 2021 on a new EU-China strategy, its call for the EU to develop a more assertive, comprehensive and coherent EU-China strategy that unites all Member States and shapes relations with China in the interest of the EU as a whole; emphasises that this strategy should promote a rules-based multilateral order, should have the defence of EU values and interests at its core and should be based on the three principles of cooperating where possible, competing where needed, and confronting where necessary; stresses that it is particularly important to continue engaging with China to promote solutions to common challenges and to cooperate on issues of common interest such as fighting climate change; acknowledges that the support of China was vital for the conclusion of the Paris Agreement;
TEXTS ADOPTED
P5_TA(2002)0036
Numerical strength ofcommittees
European Parliament decision on the numerical strength ofcommittees
The European Parliament ,
7dash having regard to Rule 150(1) ofits Rules ofProcedure,
7dash having regard to its decision of16January 2002 onthe numerical strength of committees(1),
1. Decides to amend the number of members ofcommittees as follows:
VIII. Committeeon Employment and Social Affairs: 51 membersXIII. Committeeon Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport: 37 membersXIV. Committee onDevelopment and Cooperation: 33 members
(1) ‘Texts Adopted’,P5_TA(2002)0001.
P5_TA(2002)0037
Numerical strength ofinterparliamentary delegations
European Parliament decision on the numerical strength ofinterparliamentary delegations
The European Parliament ,
7dash having regard to Rule 168 ofits Rules of Procedure,
7dash having regard to its decision of 21July 1999 on the number and numerical strength of interparlia-
mentary delegations and delegations to joint parliamentary committees(1),
1. Decides to amend the number of members ofinterparliamentary delegations as follows:
(a) Delegation for relations with Israel: 18 members(b) Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council: 18 members(c) Delegation for relations with the countries ofSouth America and Mercosur: 24 members(d) Delegation for relations with Japan: 20 members
(1) OJ C 301, 18.10.1999,p. 19.21.11.2002 EN C284E/167 Official Journal ofthe European Communities
Wednesday 6 February 2002
P6_TA(2007)0001

Composition of committees

Decision of the European Parliament on the composition of committees

The European Parliament,

- having regard to Rules 174 and 177 of its Rules of Procedure,

A. whereas there is a need for continuity in its business, and more specifically the business of its committees and subcommittees,

B. whereas, following accession, the new Romanian and Bulgarian Members are entitled to sit in the European Parliament and on its bodies in full enjoyment of their rights,

1. Decides to maintain, on an exceptional and temporary basis, the current composition of the committees and subcommittees;

2. Decides that the seats which had been set aside for observers until 31 December 2006 on these bodies now be allocated to the Bulgarian and Romanian Members as full members;

3. Decides that this decision will expire at the end of the part-session of 31 January to 1 February 2007.

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P6_TA(2007)0090

Request for defence of the immunity of Giuseppe Gargani

European Parliament decision of 29 March 2007 on the request for defence of the immunity and privileges of Giuseppe Gargani (2006/2300(IMM))

The European Parliament,

- having regard to the request by Giuseppe Gargani for defence of his immunity in connection with civil proceedings pending before an Italian court, of 30 November 2006, announced in plenary sitting on 11 December 2006,

- having heard Giuseppe Gargani in accordance with Rule 7(3) of its Rules of Procedure,

- having regard to Articles 9 and 10 of the Protocol of 8 April 1965 on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Communities and Article 6(2) of the Act of 20 September 1976 concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage,

- having regard to the judgments of 12 May 1964 and 10 July 1986 [1] of the Court of Justice of the European Communities,

- having regard to Rules 6(3) and 7 of its Rules of Procedure,

- having regard to the report of the Committee on Legal Affairs (A6-0071/2007),

1. Decides to defend the immunity and privileges of Giuseppe Gargani;

2. Instructs its President to forward this decision, and the report of the committee responsible, immediately to the appropriate authorities of the Italian Republic.

[1] Case 101/63 Wagner v Fohrmann and Krier [1964] ECR 195 and Case 149/85 Wybot v Faure and others [1986] ECR 2391.

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EN Official Journal of the European Union CE 66/82

Request for waiver of the immunity of Hans-Peter Martin

P6_TA(2008)0089

European Parliament decision of 12 March 2008 on the request for waiver of the immunity of Hans-Peter Martin (2007/2215(IMM))

(2009/C 66 E/16)

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the request for waiver of the immunity of Hans-Peter Martin, forwarded by the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Austria on 24 September 2007, and announced in plenary sitting on 27 September 2007,

— having heard Hans-Peter Martin in accordance with Rule 7(3) of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to Article 10 of the Protocol of 8 April 1965 on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Communities and Article 6(2) of the Act of 20 September 1976 concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage,

— having regard to the judgments of 12 May 1964 and 10 July 1986 (1) of the Court of Justice of the European Communities,

— having regard to Article 57 of the Austrian Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz,

— having regard to Rules 6(2) and 7 of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to the report of the Committee on Legal Affairs (A6-0071/2008),

1. Decides to waive the immunity of Hans-Peter Martin;

2. Instructs its President to forward this decision, and the report of its committee responsible, immediately to the appropriate authority of the Republic of Austria.

(1) Case 101/63 Wagner v Fohrmann and Krier [1964] ECR 195, and Case 149/85 Wybot v Faure and others [1986] ECR 2391.
The committee shall invite the Commissioner-designate to make a statement and answer questions. The hearings shall be organised in such a way as to enable Commissioners-designate to disclose to Parliament all relevant information. Provisions relating to the organisation of the hearings shall be laid down in an annex to the Rules of Procedure (2) .

In the event of a substantial portfolio change during the Commission's term of office, the filling of a vacancy or the appointment of a new Commissioner following the accession of a new Member State, the Commissioners concerned shall be invited to appear before the committees responsible for the areas of responsibility in question in accordance with paragraph 2 .

In the event of portfolio changes during the Commission's term of office, the Commissioners concerned shall be invited to appear before the committees responsible for the areas of responsibility in question.
EN Official Journal of the European Union CE 16/84

Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund

P6_TA(2008)0536

European Parliament resolution of 18 November 2008 on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, in accordance with point 28 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (COM(2008)0609 — C6-0345/2008 — 2008/2286(ACI))

(2010/C 16 E/29)

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council (COM(2008)0609 — C6-0345/2008),

— having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement (IIA) of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (1), and in particular point 28 thereof,

— having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on establishing the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (2),

— having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets and the opinion of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A6-0430/2008),

A. whereas the European Union has set up the appropriate legislative and budgetary instruments to provide additional support to workers who suffer from the consequences of major structural changes in world trade patterns and to assist their reintegration into the labour market,

B. whereas the Union's financial assistance to workers made redundant should be dynamic and made available as quickly and efficiently as possible, in accordance with the Joint Declaration of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission adopted during the conciliation meeting on 17 July 2008,

C. whereas Italy has requested assistance in respect of four cases concerning redundancies in the textile sector in Sardinia, Piedmont, Lombardy and Tuscany (3),

1. Requests the institutions involved to make the necessary efforts to accelerate the mobilisation of the Fund in accordance with the abovementioned joint declaration by the adoption of which the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission confirm the importance of ensuring a rapid procedure with due respect of the IIA of 17 May 2006 for the adoption of decisions on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund;

2. Approves the decision annexed to this resolution;

3. Instructs its President to sign the decision with the President of the Council and arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union;

4. Instructs its President to forward this resolution, including its annex, to the Council and Commission.

(1) OJ C 139, 14.6.2006, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 406, 30.12.2006, p. 1.

(3) EGF/2007/005 IT/Sardegna, EGF/2007/006 IT/Piemonte, EGF/2007/007 IT/Lombardia and EGF/2008/001 IT/Toscana.
EN Official Journal of the European Union CE 224/34

Wednesday 15 July 2009

Numerical strength of the committees

P7_TA(2009)0001

European Parliament decision of 15 July 2009 on the numerical strength of the committees

2010/C 224 E/10

The European Parliament,

having regard to the proposal by the Conference of Presidents,

having regard to its decision of 6 May 2009 on the powers and responsibilities of the standing committees (1),

having regard to Rule 183 of its Rules of Procedure,

1. Decides that the numerical strength of the committees shall be as follows: I. Committee on Foreign Affairs: 76 members II. Committee on Development: 30 members III. Committee on International Trade: 29 members IV. Committee on Budgets: 44 members V. Committee on Budgetary Control: 29 members VI. Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs: 48 members VII. Committee on Employment and Social Affairs: 50 members VIII. Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety: 64 members IX. Committee on Industry, Research and Energy: 55 members X. Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection: 39 members XI. Committee on Transport and Tourism: 45 members XII. Committee on Regional Development: 49 members XIII. Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development: 45 members XIV. Committee on Fisheries: 24 members XV. Committee on Culture and Education: 32 members XVI. Committee on Legal Affairs: 25 members XVII. Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs: 55 members XVIII. Committee on Constitutional Affairs: 25 members XIX. Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality: 35 members XX. Committee on Petitions: 35 members Subcommittee on Human Rights: 30 members Subcommittee on Security and Defence: 30 members;

2. Decides, with reference to the decision of the Conference of Presidents of 9 July 2009 relating to the composition of Committee Bureaux, that the Committee Bureaux may consist of up to four vice-chairs;

3. Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and Commission, for information.

(1) Texts adopted, P6_TA(2009)0348.
1.

Decides to append the following interpretation to Rule 50: ‘The Conference of Presidents’ decision to apply the procedure with associated committees applies at all stages of the procedure in question. The rights attaching to the status of “committee responsible” are exercised by the lead committee. In exercising those rights, the lead committee must take due account of the prerogatives of the associated committee, and in particular must comply with the obligation to observe the principle of sincere cooperation as regards the timetable and respect the right of the associated committee to determine the amendments submitted in plenary which fall within its exclusive competence. Should the lead committee disregard the prerogatives of the associated committee, decisions taken by the former remain valid but the latter may table amendments directly in plenary, within the limits of its exclusive competence.’;