ANNEX B
PROPOSALS INCLUDED IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT'S
RESOLUTION OF 13 APRIL 2000 NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE IN OUR REPORT
All references to paragraph numbers are to the
EP Resolution.
1. An amendment to Article 191 EC to endorse
the concept of European political parties, together with a commitment
within one year of the new Treaty's entering into force to adopt
requirements for the recognition, statute and funding arrangements
(including Community funding) for European political parties:
paragraph 8.1.
2. In order to promote greater openness by the Council,
a verbatim record of Council meetings should be published and
the Council should account for its decisions to the EP: paragraph
10.2.
3. The Council should adopt and publish its Rules of Procedure:
paragraph 11.
4. The EP should elect the Commission President from a
short-list submitted by the Council: paragraph 12.2.
5. The normal system for requesting preliminary rulings
from the ECJ should apply to matters relating to asylum, immigration
and visas (Title IV EC): paragraph 20.
6. The IGC should consider whether it is necessary to
reform the structure of the European Central Bank to take account
of enlargement: paragraph 27.
7. The Treaty should contain specific legal bases for
the establishment of decentralised agencies; economic, financial
and technical co-operation with Third Counties; and the energy
sector (all of which currently fall within Article 308 EC): paragraph
30.4.
8. The EP's assent should be required for all revision
of the Treaties, international agreements pursuant to Article
300 EC, own resources decisions, and appointments to the Court
of Auditors, Courts, and Executive Board of the European Central
Bank: paragraph 30.5.
9. The IGC should establish a hierarchy of norms: paragraph
31.2.
10. The concept of subsidiarity should be given more clarity
by delineation of the powers properly exercisable at the EU level
and those for the national level: paragraph 32.
11. The procedure for suspending Member States should
be amended: paragraph 36.
12. The EP should have a greater role in the drawing up
and conclusion of international agreements, for example by a requirement
to consult the EP before the Council authorises a Commission negotiating
mandate, by the introduction of a conciliation procedure if there
were any disagreement between the European institutions on negotiations,
by a requirement for EP assent to any treaty and by a requirement
for any internal European legislation adopted in furtherance of
the treaty to be subject to the co-decision procedure: paragraph
40.3.
13. Commercial policy should be subject to co-decision,
and the EP's assent be required for any international treaties
on commerce: paragraph 40.1 and 40.2.
14. There should be a Council of Defence Ministers to
deal with technical and operational aspects of the CESDP, but
all proposals concerning the CFSP should be submitted to the General
Affairs Council for decision: paragraph 41.2.
15. The IGC should include in the Treaty a reference to
the 'social market economy': paragraph 42.
16. The EP should be more involved in consideration of
the Broad Economic Guidelines, and, in particular, should be formally
consulted on the formulation of the Guidelines: paragraph 43.
17. The Broad Economic Guidelines should be subject to
QMV, the EP should consider them within the context of the economic,
employment and social convergence policy debate, and the EP President
should participate in the June European Council where this policy
is debated: paragraph 44.
18. The EP should be consulted systematically on any proposals
or recommendations under Title VII EC (Economic and monetary policy):
paragraph 45.
19. The Luxembourg, Cardiff and Cologne procedures for
co-operation in economic and employment policy should be streamlined
and consolidated: paragraph 46.
20. The Protocol to the EC Treaty on the European Investment
Bank should be reviewed to improve the transparency of the Bank's
activities: paragraph 47.
21. The EP should be kept informed of agreements between
the social partners and, when these are implemented by means of
a Council decision, they should be subject to the EP's assent:
paragraph 48.
22. Social protection should be recognised in the Treaty:
paragraph 49.
23. There should be a single coherent legal base in the
Treaty for gender equality in all policy areas: paragraph 50.
24. Budgetary procedure should be reformed by: abolishing
the distinction between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure;
incorporating into the budget such areas as the funding of the
European Development Fund and of decentralised agencies; the Financial
Perspective should be integrated into the Treaty; "the Union
should not be financed by contributions from the Member States
but by its own resources", the level of which should be fixed
by co-decision of the EP and Council: paragraph 51.
25. The procedure for discharge of the budget should be
amended, and the discharge authority should have direct access
to the information supplied by those responsible for administering
Community funds within the Member States: paragraph 52.
26. In order to create an area of freedom, security and
justice, there should be an end to the inter-governmental nature
of the Third Pillar and there should be a merging of judicial
and police co-operation in criminal matters with judicial co-operation
in civil matters and measures relating to the free movement of
persons; all measures relating to the establishment of the area
of freedom, security and justice should be subject to QMV and
the co-decision procedure: paragraph 53.1 and 53.4.
27. The Schengen regime should be common to all 15 Member
States, the exceptions renegotiated and minimised: paragraph
53.3.
28. Europol should be brought within the institutional
framework of the EU, and should be subject to appropriate means
of control by the EP and judicial review by the ECJ: paragraph
54.1.
29. There should be structural co-operation with the police
and judicial authorities (EUROJUST) of those Member States which
intend to make use of Europol for national investigations: paragraph
54.2.
30. The Treaty should include a legal base for co-operation
in the tourism sector: paragraph 56.
31. The EC Treaty should contain a legal base for a common
energy policy, and consolidate and clarify the existing provisions
in the Treaties on energy; the EP should be given a role in legislation
relating to nuclear energy: paragraph 57.
32. The EC Treaty should include provisions for the establishment
of a single European air traffic control agency: paragraph
58.
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