Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning the training on preventing conflict and harassment in the workplace and on good office management

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 6 · Amendments to the Rules of ProcedureAdopted

   Annex II – point 5

   Tabled by Gwendoline DelbosCorfield · Verts/ALE

   5. Where necessary, Members will cooperate Removed: promptly and fully Added: fully, in accordance with the procedures Removed: in place for Added: laid down by the Bureau, with a view to managing situations of conflict or harassment (psychological or sexual), including Added: by responding promptly to any allegations of harassment. Members Removed: should Added: who have not already done so shall take part in specialised training organised for them Added: by the European Parliament on preventing conflict and harassment in the workplace and on good office management. Added: This training shall be completed within the first six months of the Member’s term of office save in duly substantiated exceptional cases. The Members’ certificates of completion of this training will be published on Parliament’s website. It is considered a serious breach of Rule 10(6) if a Member has not completed the specialised training, in breach of the second subparagraph of this point. This breach shall lead, pursuant to Rule 176, to the imposition of one or more penalties, which shall include at least the forfeiture of entitlement to the daily allowance for a period of five days.

2. Amendment 6 · Amendments to the Rules of ProcedureRejected

   Annex II – point 5

   Tabled by Gwendoline DelbosCorfield · Verts/ALE

   5. Where necessary, Members will cooperate Removed: promptly and fully Added: fully, in accordance with the procedures Removed: in place for Added: laid down by the Bureau, with a view to managing situations of conflict or harassment (psychological or sexual), including Added: by responding promptly to any allegations of harassment. Members Removed: should Added: who have not already done so shall take part in specialised training organised for them Added: by the European Parliament on preventing conflict and harassment in the workplace and on good office management. Added: This training shall be completed within the first six months of the Member’s term of office save in duly substantiated exceptional cases. The Members’ certificates of completion of this training will be published on Parliament’s website. It is considered a serious breach of Rule 10(6) if a Member has not completed the specialised training, in breach of the second subparagraph of this point. This breach shall lead, pursuant to Rule 176, to the imposition of one or more penalties, which shall include at least the forfeiture of entitlement to the daily allowance for a period of five days.

3. Amendment 7 · Amendments to the Rules of ProcedureRejected

   Rule 21 - paragraph 1

   Tabled by Rainer Wieland · PPE

   … it considers that the Member in question has been guilty of serious Removed: misconduct. Added: misconduct, including when the President has submitted a proposal in line with Rule 176(7) following the establishment of an occurrence of harassment in accordance with the applicable internal administrative procedure on harassment and its prevention. Parliament shall take a decision on that proposal by a majority of …

4. Amendment 9 · Amendments to the Rules of ProcedureRejected

   Rule 21 - paragraph 2

   Tabled by Rainer Wieland · PPE

   Where a rapporteur Removed: breaches the provisions of the Code of Conduct for Members of the European Parliament regarding integrity and transparency13, Added: has been guilty of serious misconduct, the committee which appointed him or her may, at the initiative of … first paragraph shall apply mutatis mutandis to each stage of this procedure. Removed: 13See Annex I

5. Amendment 12 · Proposal for a decisionRejected

   Paragraph 1 a (new)

   Tabled by Monika Hohlmeier, Christine Schneider · PPE

   Added: 1a. Emphasises that all groups should report alleged harassment cases and complaints to the Advisory Committee dealing with harassment complaints concerning Members of the European Parliament in order to enable an independent review and a complete investigation; is astonished how in a particular alleged case concerning a former Green MEP, Malte Gallée, his group failed to report this case to the relevant internal EP committees and structures; deplores the double standards of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, frequently calling for stronger official EP anti-harassment policies, but failing to implement the necessary procedures for such policies within their own Group; calls on the Greens Group to deliver all information and complaints to the official bodies regarding this and any other cases; underlines the importance that all political groups abide by the anti-harassment rules;