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"One of the Convention’s core tasks is to make proposals for simplifying and clarifying legal instruments and rules of procedure used by the EU, as well as to clarify which powers the Member States have delegated to the EU. The Convention’s efforts to bring about a uniform decision-making structure based on codecision and the Community model within a combined ‘constitutional treaty’ amount to important changes with a view to democratising the EU’s decision-making process and making it easier to grasp. The report contains sound proposals for new terminology aimed at clarifying the ways in which the EU’s legal instruments work and at making the decision-making process more easily accessible. The report makes it clear that the EU can only act in areas delegated by the Member States.
Those areas that the Member States choose to delegate are characterised by the clear added value entailed in cooperation as distinct from the Member States’ acting individually, especially with regard to the internal market and the joint combating of serious cross-border crime.
The report is unclear regarding whether treaty changes should only be based on the outcome of the Convention and whether future conventions need to approve possible changes by intergovernmental conferences to the conventions’ recommendations. An obligation on the part of future intergovernmental conferences to comply with the Convention would fundamentally alter the relationship between the EU and the Member States. The requirement of unanimity in the case of treaty changes must be maintained. The ratification processes must be respected and continue to operate as they do at present. What is also unclear is whether it will be possible for the proposed laws supplementary to the constitution, based on decision-making by qualified majority, to determine how the EU is funded in future. The funding of the EU must be decided upon unanimously. The Moderates are opposed to proposals that may lead to the EU’s being funded by EU taxes."@en1
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