Changes from report parliamentary committee draft to plenary report

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Rule 56 – paragraph 5

Amendment: deleted

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Rule 56 – paragraph 6

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ChangedAmendment: 6. All opinions adopted by the opinion-giving committeecommittees shall be annexed to the report of the committee responsible.

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Rule 56 – paragraph 7

Amendment: deleted

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Rule 56 – paragraph 8

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ChangedAmendment: 8. The Chair and rapporteur of the opinion-giving committee shall be invited to take part in an advisory capacity in meetings of the committee responsible. The rapporteur of the opinion-giving committee shall also be invited in an advisory capacity to shadows meetings and preparatory meetings taking place within the framework of interinstitutional negotiations. As regards the ordinary legislative procedure, this paragraph shall only apply to the first-reading stage.

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Rule 56 a (new)

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ChangedAmendment: 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,.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……

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Rule 57

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ChangedAmendment: deleted / (Amendment applies throughout: delete references to Rule 57 and make resulting changes throughout the Rules of Procedure)(deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted)(Amendment applies throughout: delete references to Rule 57 and make resulting changes throughout the Rules of Procedure)

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Rule 58 – paragraph 1

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ChangedAmendment: 1. When a matter falls within the competence of two or three committees, without the competence of any of them prevailing, the procedure with joint meetings of committees and a joint vote may be applied pursuant to Rule 48 or Rule 54. Each committee shall appoint one rapporteur. / (deleted) / (deleted)

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Rule 58 – paragraph 2

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ChangedAmendment: 2. In that event, the respective rapporteurs shall draw up a single draft report, which shall be examined and voted on by the committees involvedinvolved, under the joint chairmanship of the committee Chairs. The chairmanship of meetings shall alternate among the Chairs of the committees involved.involved, unless otherwise agreed between the Chairs. / At all stages of the procedure, the rights attaching to the status of committee responsible may be exercised by the committees involved only when they are acting jointly. The committees involved may set up working groups to prepare the meetings and votes. For the calculation of quorums, majorities and thresholds, all committees involved shall be considered to constitute a single committee.

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ChangedRule 58 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1

Amendment: 3. At the second-reading stage of the ordinary legislative procedure, the Council position shall be considered at a joint meeting of the committees involved. If no agreement is reached between the Chairs of those committees, the joint meeting shall be held on the Wednesday of the first week set aside for meetings of parliamentary bodies following the communication of the Council’s position to Parliament. If no agreement is reached on the convening of a further meeting, any such meeting shall be convened by the Chair of the Conference of Committee Chairs. The vote on the recommendation for second reading shall be taken at a joint meeting on the basis of a joint text drafted by the respective rapporteurs of the committees involved or, in the absence of a joint text, on the basis of the amendments tabled in the committees involved.

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ChangedRule 71 – paragraph 12 – subparagraph 1 a (new)

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ChangedAmendment: AnyDecisions to enter into negotiations shall be announced at the beginning of the part-session following their adoption in committee. By the end of the day following the announcement in Parliament, Members or a political group or groups reaching at least the medium threshold or a committee having issued an opinion pursuant to Rule 56 may oppose therequest adoptionin ofwriting suchthat a committee decision atto theenter latestinto 24negotiations hoursbe beforeput to the scheduledvote. Parliament shall then proceed to that vote induring the committeesame responsible.part-session.

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Rule 71 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

Amendment: If no such request is received by the expiry of the deadline laid down in the first subparagraph, the President shall inform Parliament that this is the case. If a request is made, the President may, immediately prior to the vote, give the floor to one speaker from each political group to speak on the committee’s decision to enter into negotiations. Each speaker may make a statement lasting no more than one minute.

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Rule 74 – paragraph 1

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ChangedAmendment: 1. Parliament's negotiating team shall be led by the rapporteur and shall be presided over by the Chair of the committee responsible or by a Vice-Chair designated by the Chair.Chair, who may not be a shadow rapporteur for the report concerned. If neither the Chair nor a Vice-Chair can attend a specific negotiation meeting with the Council and the Commission (“trilogue”), the Chair shall seekinform the President’sPresident authorisationbefore forthe meeting takes place that the negotiating team towill be exceptionally presided over by the rapporteur at that trilogue. / Without prejudice to Rule 56a, the negotiating team shall consist of the shadow rapporteur from each political group.group that wishes to participate. If a shadow rapporteur is unable to attend a specific trilogue, his or her political group may appoint another Member to replace the shadow rapporteur.

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Rule 74 – paragraph 2

Amendment: 2. Any document intended to be discussed at a trilogue shall be circulated to the negotiating team at least 48 hours or, in cases of urgency, at least 24 hours in advance of that trilogue.

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Rule 74 – paragraph 5

Amendment: 5. In the event of a disagreement relating to the opening of negotiations and the conduct of negotiations between the committees concerned under Rule 58, the detailed rules for such negotiations shall be determined by the Chair of the Conference of Committee Chairs in accordance with the principles set out in Rule 58.

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Title II – Chapter 3 – Section 4 a (new) – title: SECTION 4A / CONFLICT OF RULES

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Rule 78 a (new)

Amendment: Rule 78a / Conflict of rules / In the event of a conflict between a provision of the Rules of Procedure relating to the second and third readings and any other provision of the Rules, the provision relating to the second and third readings shall take precedence.

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Rule 94 – paragraph 3 a (new)

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ChangedAmendment: 3a. Amendments concerning pilot projects and preparatory actions shall be subject to a prior executability assessment by the Commission, in accordance with the Interinstitutional Agreement on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management. Proposed pilot projects and preparatory actions directly linked to reports being drawn up, or to proposals having been adopted, in accordance with Rule 47 shall be sent to the Commission for information purposes only and not for assessment.purposes. / The committee responsible for budgetary issues shall lay down for each year the procedure and timetable for the executability assessment. That procedure and timetable shall allow sufficient time for the preparation of amendments to the Council’s position on the draft budget. The committee responsible for budgetary issues shall only send proposed pilot projects and preparatory actions to the Commission for assessment or for the purposes of information where those proposals have the support of a committee, a political group or Members reaching at least the low threshold.

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Rule 94 – paragraph 4

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ChangedAmendment: 4. The committee responsible shall vote on all budgetary amendments before they are discussed in Parliament. Amendments introducingconcerning pilot projects and preparatory actions directly linked to reports being drawn upup, or to proposals having been adoptedadopted, in accordance with Rule 47 shall be given priority in voting.

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Rule 99 – interpretation (new)

Amendment: Discharge to the Commission includes non-traditionally financed instruments, off-budget instruments and performance-based hybrid instruments. Since such instruments require a special control framework, the committee responsible concerning discharge has to be systematically associated with the consideration of those instruments in accordance with Rule 56.

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Rule 113 – title

Amendment: Consideration under the joint committee procedure

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Rule 113 – paragraph 1