Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/673

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to amend Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with a view to strengthening the European dimension of European political parties and increasing transparency while guaranteeing the proper use of European funds. PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament shall decide in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014 establishes a specific European legal status for European political parties and political foundations to benefit from and provides for their funding from the general budget of the European Union. It was introduced to increase the visibility, recognition, effectiveness, transparency and accountability of European political parties and their affiliated political foundations. The Committee on Constitutional Affairs adopted the report by Mercedes BRESSO (S&D, IT) and Rainer WIELANDSUR (EPP, DE) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) No. 1141/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations. The committee recommended that European Parliament’s position adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the Commission proposal as follows. Conditions for registration : Members noted that a political alliance shall be entitled to apply to register as a European political party where its member parties must not be members of another European political party. Respect for the values of the Union : their affiliated European political foundations wishing to obtain recognition as such at Union level shall respect certain principles and fulfil certain conditions in their programme and in their activities, the values on which the Union is founded, namely respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. Application for funding : in order to receive funding, a European political party shall include in its application evidence demonstrating that the majority of its member parties and in any event a minimum of seven of them have continuously published on their websites, in a comprehensive, reliable and user-friendly way , during 12 months preceding the moment at which the applications is made, the political programme and logo of the European political party. Breakdown of appropriations : Members proposed that the appropriations available to those European political parties and European political foundations which have been awarded contributions or grants shall be distributed annually on the basis of the following distribution key: 10 % shall be distributed in equal shares among the beneficiary European political parties; 90 % shall be distributed among the beneficiary European political parties in proportion to their share of elected members of the European Parliament who are members of a European political party.…

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