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Transparency, Accountability and Integrity in the EU Institutions
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This is a first draft of the political suggestions and demands of my initiative report on: “Transparency, Accountability and Integrity in the EU Institutions”. It will be introduced through a more formal part which will be added once the political parts in finalized. We used this political opportunity to collect bold proposals to win back the shrinked trust of citizens in EU institutions. EU institutions should become THE example of clean, transparent and accountable politics. Ideally to achieve progress also for Member States’ institutions to overcome corruption and lack of transparency.
The collection and discussion of suggestions on this platform will be closed on the 25th of September so that enough time for the formal polishing of the report remains.
We ask all of you of your opinion on the proposed text (using the thumbs up or down or comments) and ideas (to add new ideas use the (+) symbol). We thank those a lot who already send their input via our online form found on sven-giegold.de/transparency and also those who contributed to the call of Democracy International. We tried to include your ideas nevertheless please continue making suggestions and corrections in this draft where you feel it would help our task.
I will read each and every of your comments which is formulated in a respectful and constructive way. Thanks in advance for all votes and comments!
With Green European greetings
Sven Giegold, Greens/EFA MEP and rapporteur of the initiative report
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P1 Welcomes the Commission’s decisions of 25.11
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P33 Encourages and empowers the Joint Transparen
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With a view to full implementation of thos
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P16 Regrets that so far Commission's intend for
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Considers that, following the entry into f
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P30 calls on Joint Transparency Register Secreta
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P130 takes note of the public discussion about th
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P89 Recognises that strong reasons such as publi
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P69 Believes the Code of Conduct should be amend
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P61 Believes the internally chosen members of th
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P23 Calls on all Member States to introduce a ma
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conflicts of interest in Commission
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P76 Believes for Members of the European Commiss
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P91 Believes the TFEU’s exclusions from this oth
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P86 Notes that complaints indicate this principl
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P28 Believes another amendment should make manda
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P88 Notes in that regard that although the defin
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P20 Recognises the role played by the Council si
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P97 Believes the ECB should also uphold the righ
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P24 Welcomes progress made on the quality of the
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granting access to the information availab
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P59 Encourages its President to give written exp
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P10 Welcomes existing Lobbying laws forseeing ma
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P100 Believes that the Ombudsman’s mandate as ind
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P68 Believes the rule should imply more intense
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P70 Believes violations of this Code of Conduct
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P154 Calls on the Commission to draw up a framewo
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Considers that the structure and the staff
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P6 Reaffirms the importance of the free mandate
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Parliament should be as transparent as Commi
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P92 Believes those who wilfully act to undermine
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P4 Calls on the Commission to immediately exten
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on the access to EU documents
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P85 Believes the principle of widest possible op
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P2 Considers this incentive for lobbyists to re
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P87 Believes the principle should be understood
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P109 Welcomes the Ombudsman’s inquiry into expert
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making EU documents more accessible by cre
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Welcomes and encourages the role played by
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P25 Notes that despite efforts made so far plent
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Carefully assess individuals' backgrounds
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P131 Considers that a reading room for confidenti
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P31 Expects that the annual report on the operat
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P15 Insists that the next review of the Transpar
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P144 Believes effective whistleblower protection
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P137 notes that preparatory documents are regular
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P132 notes that some national parliamentarians en
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P141 Regrets the Ombudsman found only two of nine
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P90 Considers protection of human rights, agains
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P142 Supports the reminder within the Commission’
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P93 Believes the Regulation’s paragraph 14 of th
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P98 Requests the Commission to negotiate when co
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on transparency of the external representati
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P110 Believes that concerning the selection of pa
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P129 Requests all Chairs of its Committees to ens
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recommendations on other institutions
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P123 Notes how trilogues have become the rule ins
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P99 Encourages all institutions to consider supp
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on the fight against corruption involving th
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widening its scope to encompass all the EU
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P112 Believes existing regulations concerning exp
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Welcomes the Commission's intention to fol
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P145 Notes that corruption is found to cause sign
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ensuring that Parliament leads by example
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Ensure that no individual with any actual,
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Extending the Commission’s Lobby transparenc
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P81 Considers control by the European Parliament
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P41 Requests its President and bureau to analyse
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P7 Considers access of individual citizens and
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burden sharing with Lobbyists for Lobby tran
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P11 Considers lobby transparency via monthly rep
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P12 Recognises debates on how far EU treaties al
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P14 Considers that this and future reviews of th
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P17 Reiterates its call of 14 April 2014 on the
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P19 Considers that in any event, a further evalu
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P26 Underlines that non-registered organisations
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P27 Believes that the Code of Conduct attached t
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P29 Requests the Joint Transparency Register Sec
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P34 Considers among its members those appointed
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P36 Regrets the present disincentive to publish
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P37 Calls on its President and Bureau to explore
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P40 Notes complains by members about areas of EU
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sanctioning the Code of Conduct for lobbyist
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P80 Considers the present regulation of 12.000 E
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P64 Requests its President to arrange for the im
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P79 Recognises progress in transparency of finan
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P77 Believes similar rules must also apply to se
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P75 centralised publication to allow for compari
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P74 publication in machine readable format,
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P71 Believes that the Code of Conduct attached t
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P66 Encourages its Bureau to propose ways to ins
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P63 Believes Rules of Procedure’s articles on de
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lawyers who lobby
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P58 Requests its President to publish all recomm
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P67
- Notes that rule 19 in the Rules of Procedure on the termination of office of a rapporteur in breach of the provisions of the Code of Conduct for Members of the European Parliament with respect to financial interests and conflicts of interest has so far never (or rarely) been used to exclude a selected member from the office of rapporteur or to the withdrawl;
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P68
- Believes the rule should imply more intense checks on potential conflicts of interest should be done before he or her takes this special function;
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P69
- Believes the Code of Conduct should be amended to include a cooling off period for Members to work in lobbying in the field of their Parliamentary responsibilities for 3 years;
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P70
- Believes violations of this Code of Conduct should be sanctioned with penalties up to 35.000 Euro.
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P71
- Believes that the Code of Conduct attached to the Agreement of 23 June 2011 and the Code of Conduct for Members of the European Parliament with respect to financial interests and conflicts of interest should be amended in order to ensure that Members do not enter into any kind of agreement or contractual relationship with an external body to either fund or directly employ individuals within a Member’s staff;
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P72
- do away with categories while declaring incomes and instead to ask for declaration of precise amounts;
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conflicts of interest in Commission
P76
- Believes for Members of the European Commission willing to move to the private sector and private-sector associations the period during which they are not allowed to engage in any lobbying activity (any activity in a field connected) with their former area of responsibility, the so called ‘cooling-off period’ should be extended to 3 years;
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P77
- Believes similar rules must also apply to senior civil servants and employees of the Commission and the agencies;
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- Calls on Council to agree on the necessary changes of staff regulations to include those regulations;
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Financing of European Parties
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- Recognises progress in transparency of financing of European Parties since audited financial reports are published centralised on the European Parliament's website;
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P80
- Considers the present regulation of 12.000 Euro as a maximum allowed donation to European Parties an appropriate ceiling; yet believes this should also include donations given in addition to national member parties of a respective European political party;
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P81
- Considers control by the European Parliament over the financing of European Political parties that make up the vast majority of this Parliament an unnecessary conflict of interest situation that could be solved by handing the oversight to a neutral body;
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- Encourages its Bureau to suggest either the set up of a new neutral body or the identification of an existing one that could be empowered to take over this role;
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P83
- Believes European financing of European parties should be based on minimum standards of internal democracy and therefore in the EU regulation 1141/2014 on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations article 14, paragraph 2, subparagraph 2 to be amended to count only those Members of the European Parliament who have been nominated for European elections by a statutory body representing the members of their party in secret ballot;
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P84
- (Believes the EU regulation 1141/2014 Article 14 paragraph 2, subparagraph 2 should be further amended to exclude all those Members for counting who have been found guilty for corruption or similar charges if against the interest of the European Union or within a Member state;)
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