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Cette étude, commandée par le département thématique des droits des citoyens et des affaires constitutionnelles à la demande de la commission JURI, examine les lacunes et les améliorations possibles de la coopération administrative entre les États membres en ce qui concerne la perception des amendes et le recouvrement des créances. Il est nécessaire de mettre en place des instruments juridiques pour faciliter la coopération transnationale et ce, d’autant plus que les termes «amende» et «créance» ...

This Briefing forms part of an EPRS series which offers a synthesis of the pre-legislative state-of-play and advance consultation on a range of key European Commission priorities during the latter’s five-year term in office. It seeks to summarise the state of affairs in the relevant policy field, examine how existing policy is working on the ground, and identify best practice and ideas for the future on the part of governmental organisations at all levels of European system of multilevel governance ...

This report summarises the discussion which took place at the workshop “Public Procurement Strategy Package”. Public procurement is a complex issue with the potential to strongly influence the EU economy. With the aim of discussing the main challenges related to this topic and the recently proposed draft regulation of the European Commission, the workshop was hosted by Mr Carlos Coelho, MEP. This document was prepared by Policy Department A at the request of the Committee on the Internal Market ...

Historically, sports organisations have enjoyed considerable autonomy in running and regulating sport. This autonomy, strongly defended by sports authorities as a means to safeguard the inherent sporting values from external influence is increasingly being challenged, and made conditional on compliance with good governance principles, including those of democracy, transparency, accountability in decision-making, and representative inclusiveness. While sport organisations have taken steps to enhance ...

This study was prepared for Policy Department A at the request of the Environmental, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee, and updates the earlier 2013 briefing. It provides an overview of the food safety situation in Ireland. It outlines the Irish food and drink industry, the structure and organisation of the food safety and control system involved in food safety in Ireland and a description of current food safety issues in Ireland. An overview of the structure and competencies of the ...

Upon request by the JURI Committee, this in-depth analysis examines the immunity of Polish parliamentarians, i.e. Deputies to the Sejm and Senators. It describes forms of immunity, their scopes, taking into account the jurisprudence of the Polish Supreme Court and the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, as well as parliamentary procedures regarding waiving or defending the immunities. It also includes a description of legal and practical problems related to an ordinary application of immunity rules. ...

À la demande de la commission des affaires juridiques, le présent manuel décrit les règles nationales de composition des gouvernements et des parlements de chacun des États membres de l'Union européenne et donne une vue d'ensemble des règles nationales en matière d'immunité parlementaire. Il dresse en outre la liste des autorités nationales qui sont habilitées à demander la levée de l'immunité des députés européens, répertoriées après consultation des États membres. Ce texte sera régulièrement ...

This note seeks to provide an initial analysis of the European Commission's Impact Assessment (IA) accompanying its Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on electronic invoicing in public procurement (COM (2013) 449), which it submitted in June 2013. Once the proposal enters into force, the Commission would request the relevant European standardisation organisation (CEN - the Committee for European Standardization) to draw up a European standard for electronic invoicing ...

This paper contains an assessment of a set of amendments proposed by the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee of the European Parliament to the new Public Procurement Directives. The paper first gives a high-level assessment of all proposals that were initially considered relevant from the perspective of SMEs’ access, which is followed by a more detailed assessment of those amendments that are likely to have a significant impact on SMEs.