Urgent reform of the European Law making process needed?
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I am following the Telecom Package amendments fiasco, here are some ideas for reforming the process of adoption of the laws in Europe, without any need to change the treaties.
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Urgent reform of the European Law making process needed?
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I am following the Telecom Package amendments fiasco, here are some ideas for reforming the process of adoption of the laws in Europe, without any need to change the treaties:

European Parliament reform

  1. All amendments (including split votes, oral amendments) to legislative and non-legislative proposals are published 60 days before their adoption, in order for the public to be able to debate them, whether it is at the committee stage of the plenary stage; last minute Oral amendments are banned;
  2. Debate on each amendment is done online, through a comment system similar to Wikipedia discussion page;
  3. All committees debates are transcripted with no time of delay, with translation in all 23 EU languages; all EU citizens should be able to participate in the EU legislative debate;
  4. All the meetings happening within the walls of the Parliaments are streamed online using royalty-free standards, and recordings are available in no time on FTP and HTTP servers using royalty-free standards;
  5. The website of the European Parliament is crap; useful content is hidden in Word files, non-HTML pages, or Microsoft video formats;

Council reform

  1. Delegations of Members of the Council are not allowed to have members which are not *directly elected* by EU citizens; Members of the Council should be directly elected by citizens of the EU;
  2. All meetings happening in the Council buildings are open to the public;
  3. All working group meetings happening in the Council buildings are open to the public;
  4. All the meetings happening within the walls of the Parliaments are streamed online using royalty-free standards, and recordings are available in no time on FTP and HTTP servers using royalty-free standards;

Better legislation/regulation

  1. European Parliament should install some filters to protect Europe against bad legislative proposals, such as mandatory impact assessment for any proposal which has an impact on the market. An expert committee should assess if the quality of the impact assessment is enough, or if it should be improved or rejected.

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