Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure implementing the parliamentary reform “Parliament 2024”

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 119Rejected

   Title II – Chapter 2 – Rule 56 – paragraph 8 a (new)

   Tabled by Damian Boeselager · Verts/ALE

   Added: 8 a. In the case of key competences of the opinion-giving committee, the rapporteur of the opinion-giving committee shall be invited to trilogues to negotiate the aspects falling within these key competences in the case that this is part of the authorisation to draw up an opinion pursuant to Rule 48 or Rule 54.

2. Amendment 120Rejected

   Title II – Chapter 2 – Rule 56 a (new)

   Tabled by Damian Boeselager · Verts/ALE

   Added: Rule 56a Budgetary assessment on proposals for legally binding acts with budgetary implications 1. Without prejudice to the application of Rule 48, where a proposal for a legally binding act has implications for the Union budget, that proposal shall be referred by the President to the committee responsible for budgetary issues. That committee shall then issue a budgetary assessment of the proposal if it deems it appropriate or if so requested by the committee responsible for the subject-matter. This paragraph is without prejudice to the possibility for the committee responsible for budgetary issues to be authorised to submit opinions pursuant to Rule 56 or to act jointly with one or more committees pursuant to Rule 58. 2. The committee responsible for the subject-matter shall set a deadline within which the budgetary assessment is to be provided. Any changes to the announced timetable shall be immediately communicated to the committee responsible for budgetary issues. The committee responsible for the subject-matter shall not adopt its report before that deadline has expired. 3. In the budgetary assessment, the committee responsible for budgetary issues shall examine whether the proposal for a legally binding act provides for sufficient financial and human resources, and evaluate the potential impact of the financing proposed on other Union programmes or policies. It shall also determine whether the proposal is compatible with the multiannual financial framework, the system of own resources and the corresponding interinstitutional agreement, as well as the budgetary principles as laid down in the Financial Regulation. Where applicable, the committee responsible for budgetary issues shall also determine whether the proposal is compatible with Parliament’s position on any proposal to amend or replace that framework, that system, that agreement or those principles. 4. The budgetary assessment shall consist of an evaluation of the aspects of the proposal for a legally-binding act referred to in paragraph 3. The budgetary assessment may, where appropriate, also contain amendments to that proposal covering exclusively those aspects referred to in paragraph 3. Amendments on those aspects by the committee responsible for the subject-matter shall be inadmissible. The budgetary assessment, including the amendments, shall be integrated into the report as such. 5. Where a budgetary assessment is provided, the committee responsible for the subject-matter and the committee responsible for budgetary issues shall cooperate throughout the procedure to ensure full consistency between policy and budgetary objectives. To this end, they shall invite each other’s rapporteurs to their discussions within Parliament relating to the proposal for a legally binding act, including to the meetings between the rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs. 6. Where a budgetary assessment is provided, the negotiating team referred to in Rule 74(1) shall include the rapporteur from the committee responsible for budgetary issues who shall lead the negotiations on the issues referred to in paragraph 3. Where a budgetary assessment is not provided, the committee responsible for the subject-matter may ask the committee responsible for budgetary issues to provide assistance to the negotiating team referred to in Rule 74(1) in relation to the aspects referred to in paragraph 3 at any stage of the interinstitutional negotiations.

3. Amendment 123Rejected

   Title VII – Chapter 3 – Rule 171 – paragraph 7

   Tabled by Damian Boeselager · Verts/ALE

   … views and who come from different Member States are heard in turn. Added: Speaking time allocated to speakers from political groups shall be in proportion to the total number of their members. That remaining part of the time for a debate shall constitute 40 % of the time for key debates and 20 % of the time for all other debates.

4. Amendment 124Rejected

   Title VIII – Chapter 1 – Rule 207 a (new)

   Tabled by Damian Boeselager · Verts/ALE

   Added: Rule207a Sunset clause on associated committee procedure On 1 January 2027, Rule 57 on the associated committee procedure shall be reinstated and shall thus revert back to the text as it was on 1 January 2024. All existing cross-references to Rule 57 in other Rules shall also revert back to the text as it was on 1 January 2024.

5. Amendment 125Rejected

   Title VIII – Chapter 1 – Rule 207 b (new)

   Tabled by Damian Boeselager · Verts/ALE

   Added: Rule207b Sunset clause on temporary legislative committees On 1 January 2027, Rule 207a on temporary legislative committees shall be deleted. All existing cross-references to Rule 207a in other Rules shall also be deleted.

6. Amendment 134Rejected

   Title VIII – Chapter 1 – Rule 208 – paragraph 4

   Tabled by Damian Boeselager · Verts/ALE

   … the inquiry and include a detailed statement of the grounds for it. Removed: Parliament, on a proposal from the Conference of Presidents, Added: Parliament shall decide whether to set up a committee and, if so, its …

7. Amendment 138Rejected

   Title VIII – Chapter 1 – Article 208 – paragraph 1

   Tabled by Gilles Lebreton, Gerolf Annemans, Antonio Maria Rinaldi · ID

   … State, or of persons empowered by Union law to implement that law. Added: Without prejudice to the conditions relating to ongoing judicial proceedings laid down in Article 226 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and in Article 2 of Decision 95/167/EC, Euratom, ECSC of the European Parliament, of the Council and of the Commission, Parliament may without delay set up a committee of inquiry into the political or administrative implications of alleged facts, where an institution or body of the Union or one or more of its Members are involved.

8. Amendment 139Rejected

   Title VIII – Chapter 1 – Article 208 – paragraph 12

   Tabled by Gilles Lebreton, Gerolf Annemans, Antonio Maria Rinaldi · ID

   … institutions or bodies of the European Union or to the Member States. Added: A parliamentary committee of inquiry may not, under any circumstances, replace the national judicial authorities of the Member States.

9. Amendment 142Rejected

   Title I – Chapter 3 – Rule 25 a (new)

   Tabled by Gerolf Annemans, Antonio Maria Rinaldi, Gilles Lebreton · ID

   Added: Rule25a Political representation in the Bureau The overall composition of the Bureau shall reflect the political composition of Parliament. The distribution of the 14 Vice-Presidents among political groups must be either the nearest whole number above or the nearest whole number below the proportional calculation. The same principle shall apply to committee bureaux, in accordance with Rule 213(1). All political groups shall be proportionally represented in the Bureau, notably among the Vice-Presidents. (The third paragraph is inserted as an interpretation.)

10. Amendment 143Adopted

    Paragraph 2 a (new)

    Tabled by Silvia Modig, Helmut Scholz · The Left

    Added: 2a. Stresses that, when nominating candidates for, and electing, the President, Vice-Presidents and Quaestors, political groups bear collective responsibility for putting forward candidates that respect the gender balance;

11. Amendment 144Rejected

    Title I – Chapter 2 – Rule 15

    Tabled by Silvia Modig, Helmut Scholz · The Left

    2. When electing the President, Vice-Presidents and Quaestors, Removed: account should be taken Added: political groups should collectively take account of the need to ensure an overall fair representation of political views, …

12. Amendment 148Adopted

    Title VIII – Chapter 1 – Rule 209 – paragraph 2

    Tabled by Sandro Gozi · Renew

    … whole number above or the nearest whole number below the proportional calculation. Added: In the process of determining the composition of each committee, political groups should strive for a fair gender representation. Where there is no agreement among the political groups on their proportional weight Added: or gender representation within one or more specific committees, the Conference of Presidents shall decide.