A regulation for an open, efficient and independent European Union administration (B8-0685/2016)
Norica Nicolai (ALDE), in writing. ‒ I support the approval of a Regulation on the Union’s administrative procedures, as the lack of it has often left European citizens’ procedural rights insufficiently protected in a context where growing EU competences have increased citizens’ administrative engagement with European institutions. The development of a significant number of sectorial procedures over the years has not always achieved the greatest coherence and consistence in the overall legal system, and thus the need for a comprehensive regulation seems clear. The Treaty of Lisbon provided grounds for the adoption of an Administrative Procedure Regulation, and in its Resolution of 15 January 2013 the European Parliament called for the adoption of a regulation on a European Law of Administrative Procedure.
Such a regulation, being promoted at present, aims at establishing a set of administrative norms the Union must comply with when carrying out its administrative procedures. This regulation shall not apply to Member States’ national administrations, but to the administrative activities of the Union’s institutions, bodies, offices and agencies. It shall apply neither to legislative or judicial procedures, nor to procedures leading to the adoption of non-legislative acts directly based on the Treaties, delegated acts or implementing acts.