Changes from plenary report to adopted text

Rule 48 – title

Amendment: Referral of legally binding acts and questions of competence

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Rule 48 – paragraph 1

Amendment: 1. The President shall refer proposals for legally binding acts received from other institutions or Member States to the committee responsible or to the committees responsible pursuant to Rule 58 for consideration. The President may at the same time refer proposals to one or more committees for them to draft an opinion pursuant to Rule 56. The other committees and the political groups shall be informed of the referral at the same time.

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Rule 48 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Amendment: 1a. Within two weeks of the referral, a committee or a political group may challenge the President’s referral to the committee or committees responsible. In such a case, that committee or political group shall provide a detailed written justification and a substantiated alternative based on Annex VI at least one week before the next meeting of the Conference of Presidents. / The Conference of Presidents may request a recommendation on the matter from the Conference of Committee Chairs. The Conference of Committee Chairs or its Chair shall adopt that recommendation at its next meeting. The Conference of Presidents shall take a decision on the final referral at its next meeting, provided that the transmission by the Conference of Committee Chairs of its recommendation has taken place at least one week before. / If no committee or political group challenges the President’s referral to the committee or committees responsible within the deadline laid down in the first subparagraph, the President’s referral shall be final.

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Rule 48 – paragraph 2

Amendment: 2. In cases of doubt, the President may, before the referral provided for in paragraph 1, request a recommendation on the question of competence from the Conference of Committee Chairs. The Conference of Committee Chairs or its Chair shall adopt that recommendation at its next meeting. After receiving the recommendation, the President shall make the referral. Political groups shall be informed of the referral at the same time. Within two weeks of the referral, a political group may challenge the President's referral to the committee or committees responsible. In such a case, that group shall provide a detailed written justification and a substantiated alternative based on Annex VI at least two weeks before the next meeting of the Conference of Presidents. The Conference of Presidents shall take a decision on the referral at its next meeting. / If no political group challenges the President’s referral to the committee or committees responsible within the deadline laid down in the first subparagraph, the President’s referral shall be final.

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Rule 48 – paragraph 2 a (new)

Amendment: 2a. Within two weeks of the referral, a committee to which the President has not referred the proposal for an opinion pursuant to paragraph 1 may request an authorisation from the Conference of Committee Chairs to draw up such an opinion. That request shall be based on a written statement of reasons justifying that the matter falls to a substantial extent within its competence pursuant to Annex VI. The Conference of Committee Chairs or its Chair shall take a decision at its next meeting and inform the President thereof.

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Rule 48 – paragraph 3

Amendment: 3. The President shall announce the referral in Parliament after receiving the proposal in all official languages of the European Union and, except in cases of requests for the application of the urgent procedure pursuant to Rule 163, after, where relevant, any question of competence between committees has been settled. Once it has been announced in Parliament, the referral shall be made public on Parliament’s website.

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Rule 48 – paragraph 4

Amendment: deleted

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Rule 48 – paragraph 5

Amendment: deleted

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Rule 48 – paragraph 5 a (new)

Amendment: 5a. For the purpose of calculating the deadlines referred to in this Rule, weeks without parliamentary activities and weeks set aside for external parliamentary activities shall not be taken into account.

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Rule 49 – paragraph 1

Amendment: The acceleration of legislative procedures in coordination with the Council and Commission regarding specific proposals, selected in particular from among those identified as priorities in the joint declaration on annual interinstitutional programming pursuant to Rule 38(2), shall be agreed by the committee or committees responsible.

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Rule 49 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Amendment: Accelerated legislative procedures shall be carried out on the basis of a report from the committee or committees responsible. To this end, questions to be dealt with in accordance with accelerated legislative procedures may be given priority over other items on the committee agenda.

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Rule 51 – paragraph 2

Amendment: 2. After taking a decision on the procedure to be followed, and provided that the simplified procedure under Rule 52 does not apply, the committee shall appoint a rapporteur on the proposal for a legally binding act from among its members or permanent substitutes. / The committee responsible may also decide to appoint a rapporteur to follow the preparatory phase of a proposal. It shall particularly consider doing so where the proposal is listed in the Commission Work Programme.

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Rule 52 – paragraph 2

Amendment: 2. Alternatively, the Chair may propose setting a deadline for tabling amendments without a draft report having first been drawn up. Unless members or a political group or groups reaching at least the medium threshold in the committee object, the proposed procedure shall be deemed to have been approved. / The amendments tabled shall be put to the vote at the earliest possible meeting of the committee after the deadline for the amendments has passed, following which a draft legislative resolution and amendments shall be submitted to Parliament. / (deleted)

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Rule 53 a (new)

Amendment: Rule 53a / Co-rapporteurship / 1. Exceptionally, without prejudice to Rule 51(2) and at the request of the committee responsible, the Conference of Presidents may authorise the appointment of maximum three co-rapporteurs. As a general rule, co-rapporteurs shall come from different political groups. / 2. The appointment of co-rapporteurs shall not be authorised under paragraph 1 for reports drawn up by committees jointly under Rule 58, for opinions pursuant to Rule 56 or for own-initiative reports, except for own-initiative reports of a budgetary or institutional nature.

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Rule 54 – paragraph 4

Amendment: 4. Motions for resolutions submitted to Parliament shall be examined under the short presentation procedure set out in Rule 160 or submitted directly for a vote in plenary. Amendments to such motions for resolutions and requests for split votes or separate votes shall only be admissible for consideration in plenary if they are tabled either by the rapporteur, in order to take account of new information, or by at least one-tenth of the Members. Political groups may table alternative motions for resolutions in accordance with Rule 181(3). Rule 190 shall apply to the committee’s motion for a resolution and amendments thereto. Rule 190 shall also apply to the single vote on alternative motions for resolutions.

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Rule 54 – paragraph 5

Amendment: 5. Paragraph 4 shall not apply where the subject of the report qualifies for a key debate in plenary, where the report is drawn up pursuant to the right of initiative referred to in Rule 46 or 47, where the report has been authorised as a strategic report or as an implementation report or for annual activity and monitoring reports listed in the implementing provisions laid down by the Conference of Presidents. / (deleted)

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Rule 54 – paragraph 5 a (new)

Amendment: 5a. The committee Chairs may enter into agreements with other committee Chairs concerning the allocation of an own-initiative report or a non-legislative report to a particular committee. / If a question of competence arises among two or more standing committees, the matter shall be examined by the Conference of Committee Chairs. If no agreement has been found among those committees, the Conference of Committee Chairs or its Chair shall issue a recommendation. The Conference of Presidents shall take a decision on the basis of that recommendation at its earliest possible meeting and at the latest within six weeks after its transmission. If the Conference of Presidents fails to take a decision within that period, the recommendation shall be deemed to have been approved.

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Rule 56 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

Amendment: 1. Committees may be authorised to draw up an opinion pursuant to Rule 48 or Rule 54 if a matter falls to a substantial extent within their competence pursuant to Annex VI18a. / 18a This subparagraph is without prejudice to the other provisions of these Rules of Procedure relating to opinions and assessments on horizontal matters as well as to opinions on budgetary and discharge matters.

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Rule 56 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Amendment: 1a. The Chairs and rapporteurs of the committee responsible and of any opinion-giving committee are bound by the principle of good and sincere cooperation. The rapporteurs of those committees shall keep each other informed and shall endeavour to agree on the texts that they decide to propose to their committees and on their positions with regard to amendments.

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Rule 56 – paragraph 2

Amendment: The committee responsible shall set a reasonable deadline by which the opinion-giving committees must deliver an opinion if it is to be taken into account by the committee responsible. Any changes to the announced timetable shall be immediately communicated by the committee responsible to the opinion-giving committees together with the justification for such change. The committee responsible shall not reach its final conclusions before that deadline has expired. / 2a. Where the opinion does not concern a proposal for a legally binding act, it shall consist of amendments to the draft report of the committee responsible. The timetable set by the committee responsible shall allow the opinion-giving committees sufficient time to set a specific deadline to provide their amendments and to complete their work. / 2b. The committee responsible shall put the amendments of the opinion-giving committees to the vote. Amendments from an opinion-giving committee which are not adopted by the committee responsible may be tabled by that opinion-giving committee directly for consideration by Parliament, except in the case of opinions pursuant to Rule 93, Rule 118 and Annex V. / 2c. The opinions shall deal solely with those matters that fall within the areas of competence of the opinion-giving committee. Amendments falling outside the areas of competence of that opinion-giving committee shall not be admissible.

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