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Mr President, thank you. As rapporteur for the opinion of the Committee on Petitions on the 28th annual report on monitoring the application of EU law (2010), I am pleased to accept the final wording of the report. Proper implementation of EU law in Member States is also directly linked to a need to create a transparent legal framework that is comprehensible to national citizens. Particularly worthy of support is the proposal to introduce additional mechanisms for the enforcement of EU law by Member States, and also Parliament’s call for a procedural law in the form of a regulation under Article 298 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), which would ensure that the Commission observes the principles of open, effective and independent European administration, and Parliament can be involved as co-legislator and guardian of legal order.
I would also like to emphasise the key role of the EU Pilot system as a method of considering complaints during the first stage of proceedings. Thanks to this practice, in 2010 88 % of infringement proceedings originating from 18 countries taking part in the project did not reach the Court of Justice because the Member States corrected the faulty regulations themselves. The European Commission should, however, tighten up the status of the EU Pilot and extend its application to the whole of the EU, to enable it to be of assistance to an even broader group of citizens.
In the 28th annual report on monitoring the application of EU law, one cause of concern is the numerous instances of late transposition of EU law, which in turn make it impossible for citizens to cite the new legal provisions. One good solution, therefore, would be to apply Article 260 TFEU, which allows the Commission to ask the Court of Justice to impose financial sanctions on a Member State for late transposition of a directive. In congratulating the rapporteur, I would like to say that I fully support the report and its striving to ensure that EU regulations are clear and transparent, and thus more friendly to citizens. I would like to point out that it is actually petitions submitted by citizens and public organisations that are the main source of information on failure to observe EU law at various levels of power in the Member States. These are thus a key mechanism uniting citizens, Parliament and the Commission. Petitions submitted to the European Parliament have caused proceedings to be instigated for violations of obligations in many areas, such as environmental protection, or failure to respect the fundamental freedoms guaranteed in the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Much has already been achieved on this score, but there is a constant need to improve the European legal system at all levels, and especially at local level. Thank you."@en1
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