Regulation 2018/673 - Amendment of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations - Main contents
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Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/673 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 May 2018 amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations| Legal instrument | Regulation |
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| Number legal act | Regulation 2018/673 |
| Original proposal | COM(2017)481  |
| CELEX number i | 32018R0673 |
| Document | 03-05-2018; Date of signature |
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| Publication in Official Journal | 04-05-2018; OJ L 114I , 4.5.2018, p. 1–6 |
| Signature | 03-05-2018 |
| Effect | 04-05-2018; Entry into force Date pub. See Art 2 |
| End of validity | 31-12-9999 |
4.5.2018 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
LI 114/1 |
REGULATION (EU, Euratom) 2018/673 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 3 May 2018
amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 224 thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 106a thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),
After consulting the Committee of the Regions,
Having regard to the opinion of the Court of Auditors (2),
Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (3),
Whereas:
(1) |
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4) establishes a specific European legal status from which European political parties and their affiliated European political foundations can benefit and provides for them to be funded from the general budget of the European Union. |
(2) |
A need has been identified to amend Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 in order to better meet the objective of encouraging and assisting European political parties and their affiliated European political foundations in their endeavour to provide a strong link between European civil society and the Union institutions, and in particular the European Parliament. |
(3) |
Following changes in Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (5) (‘the Financial Regulation’), the definition of National Contact Point should be revised. The relevant authorities in the Member States should specifically designate a person or persons for the purpose of exchanging information in the course of applying this Regulation. To this end, they could choose among those persons or bodies already designated for issues related to the early detection and exclusion system set up and operated by the Commission to protect the Union's financial interests. |
(4) |
It is necessary to better ensure that European political parties and their affiliated European political foundations have a genuine transnational dimension in order for them to acquire a specific European legal status through registration. Moreover, in order to strengthen the link between politics at national level and at Union level and to prevent the same national party from artificially creating several European political parties with similar or identical political tendencies, members of the same national political party should not be taken into account in relation to different political alliances, for the purpose of the minimum representation requirements for those alliances to be registered as a European party. Therefore, only political parties, and no longer individuals, should be taken into account for the purpose of those minimum representation requirements. |
(5) |
European political parties and and their affiliated European political foundations should be enabled to use a larger share of the appropriations dedicated to their funding in the general budget of the European Union. Therefore, the maximum share of financial contributions or grants from the general budget of the European Union in the annual reimbursable expenditure indicated in the budget of a European political party and in the eligible costs incurred by a European political foundation should be increased. |
(6) |
For reasons of transparency and in order to strengthen the scrutiny and the democratic accountability of European... |
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