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31 January 2012
EU DOCUMENTS IN THE SEJM

In January 2012 the EU Affairs Committee (SUE) held 12 meetings: no. 10-21. During these meetings the Committee:

  • scrutinised 124 EU documents;
  • adopted three opinions concerning EU documents (opinions no. 4, 5 and 6),
  • together with Foreign Affairs Committee held the first reading of the governmental bill on the ratification of European Council Decision no. 2011/199/EU of 25 March 2011 amending Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union with regard to a stability mechanism for Member States whose currency is the euro (paper no. 37, meeting no. 12),
  • heard information on the election of new authorities of European Parliament presented by Jacek Protasiewicz, EP Vice-President (meeting no. 16),
  • together with Innovation and New Technologies Committee and Culture ans Media Committee heard information on consequences of signing by Poland  Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the UnitedMexican States, the Kingdom of Morocco, New Zealand, the Republic of Singapore, the Swiss Confederation and the United States of America (ACTA), presented by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Administration and Digitalization (meeting no. 17),
  • together with Foreign Affairs Committee held a meeting with the representative of the Danish Presidency of the EU Council, ambassador of Denmark Thomas Ostrup Moller and heard the information on the  programme of the Danish Presidency (meeting no. 19),
  • heard the information on the realisation of the EU budget in 2010 presented by Augustyn Kubik, member of the Court of Auditors (meeting no. 21).


SUBSIDIARITY SCRUTINY

  • COM(2011) 706 wersja ostateczna - deadline for scrutiny: 24.01.2012
    Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing an action programme for customs and taxation in the European Union for the period 2014-2020 (FISCUS) and repealing Decisions No. 1482/2007/EC and No. 624/2007/EC
    ) - deadline for scrutiny was 24.01.2012
    • On 12.01.2012, at the 13th meeting, the EU Affairs Committee held the first reading of the deputies' draft resolution (paper no. 116) resolution containing reasoned opinion on the non-compliance with the principle of subsidiarity of COM(2011) 706.
    • On 13.01.2012, at the 5th sitting of the Sejm, draft resolution - at the request of the Committee - has been rejected at second reading .

 

  • COM(2011) 560 wersja ostateczna - deadline for scrutiny: 14.11.2011
    Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 562/2006 in order to provide for common rules on the temporary reintroduction of border control at internal borders in exceptional circumstances
    • On 13.01.2012, at the 14th meeting, the EU Affairs Committee adopted opinion no. 5 on the non-compliance with the principle of subsidiarity of COM(2011) 560 final. 
       

Published in January 2012 in databases "EU documents in the Polish Sejm" and IPEX:
- EU documents concerning which a procedure in the Sejm has begun in January
- information and documents on SUE meetings no. 10, 11, 13-16, 18, 20, 21, provided by the EU Affairs Committee secretariat.

SUBSIDIARITY CHECK IN NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS
 

Subsidiarity scrutiny in January

(Information from IPEX database as of 7.02.2012)

Draft legislative act
Deadline for subsidiarity scrutiny
Adoption / transmission of reasoned opinion
Chamber / parliament (country)
COM(2011) 651 2.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 652 2.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 657 2.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 658 2.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 683 2.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 654 3.01.2012 16.12.2011 / - Bundesrat (Germany)
COM(2011) 656 5.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 710 6.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 714 6.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 730 9.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 452 11.01.2012 8.11.2011 / - House of Common (United Kingdom)
- / 21.12.2011 Riksdag (Sweden)
26.12.2011 / - Senate (France)
COM(2011) 684 11.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 688 12.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 665 16.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 709 16.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 707 17.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 764 17.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 765 17.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 766 17.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 768 17.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 769 17.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 770 17.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 771 17.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 772 17.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 773 17.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 768 17.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 789 20.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 706 24.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 746 24.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 747 24.01.2012 19.01.2012 / 19.01.2012 Riksdag (Sweden)
COM(2011) 793 25.01.2012 24.01.2012 / - Bundesrat (Germany)
24.01.2012 / 24.01.2012 Senate (Netherlands)
COM(2011) 794 25.01.2012 24.01.2012 / 24.01.2012

Senate (Netherlands)

COM(2011) 821 26.01.2012 24.01.2012 / - Senate (France)
25.01.2012 / 25.01.2012 Riksdag (Sweden)
COM(2011) 810 30.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 811 30.01.2012 - -
COM(2011) 650 1.02.2012 30.01.2012 / - Senate (France)
COM(2011) 827 1.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 834 2.02.2012 2.02.2012 / 2.02.2012 Riksdag (Sweden)
COM(2011) 855 2.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 778 3.02.2012 2.02.2012 / 2.02.2012 Riksdag (Sweden)
COM(2011) 817 3.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 822 3.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 779  6.02.2012 31.01.2012 / - Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)
2.02.2012 / 3.02.2012 National Council (Slovakia)
2.02.2012 / 2.02.2012 Riksdag (Sweden)
COM(2011) 804 6.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 814 7.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 824 8.02.2012 26.01.2012 / 26.01.2012 Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg)
COM(2011) 828 8.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 819 9.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 856 9.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 785  10.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 758 13.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 881 15.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 884 15.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 903 15.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 925 15.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 838 16.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 840  16.02.2012  -  -
COM(2011) 842 16.02.2012  -  -
COM(2011) 843 16.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 844 16.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 845 16.02.2012 - -
COM(2011) 750 6.03.2012 - -
COM(2011) 751 6.03.2012 - -
COM(2011) 752 6.03.2012 - -
COM(2011) 860 7.03.2012 - -
COM(2011) 862 7.03.2012 - -
COM(2011) 866 7.03.2012 - -
COM(2011) 897 7.03.2012 1.02.2012 / 2.02.2012 Federal Council (Austria)
COM(2011) 883 8.03.2012 - -
COM(2011) 895 8.03.2012 - -
COM(2011) 896 8.03.2012 -

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ALL REASONED OPINIONS OF NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS IN IPEX

UST DATABASE

In January 2012 one bill implementing EU law has been referred to the first reading – see paper no.:

  • 156 – Rządowy projekt ustawy o zmianie ustawy o płatnościach w ramach systemów wsparcia bezpośredniego oraz niektórych innych ustaw.

From among bills uploaded into the UST database earlier, the following statutes have been adopted [papers no.]:

  • Ustawa o zmianie ustawy o płatnościach w ramach systemów wsparcia bezpośredniego oraz niektórych innych ustaw [156],
  • Ustawa o zmianie ustawy o ostateczności rozrachunku w systemach płatności i systemach rozrachunku papierów wartościowych oraz zasadach nadzoru nad tymi systemami, ustawy o niektórych zabezpieczeniach finansowych oraz ustawy - Prawo upadłościowe i naprawcze [72].
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