EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Brussels, 2.7.2015

COM(2015) 315 final

ANNEX

to the

REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION

Annual Report 2014
on subsidiarity and proportionality

Annex

List of Commission documents on which the Commission received reasoned opinions 1 from national Parliaments in 2014 regarding compliance with the principle of subsidiarity

Commission Document

Title

Number of Reasoned Opinions (Protocol No 2)

Number of votes (Protocol No 2) 2

National chamber submitting reasoned opinions

COM(2013) 884

Proposal for a Directive on the Union legal framework for customs infringements and sanctions

LT Seimas (2 votes)

DK Folketing (2 votes)

SE Riksdag (2 votes)

COM(2014) 397

Proposal for a Directive amending Directives 2008/98/EC on waste, 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste, 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste, 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles, 2006/66/EC on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators, and 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment

HR Hrvatski Sabor (2 votes)

CZ Senát (1 vote)

AT Bundesrat (1 vote)

3	COM(2014) 180	Proposal for a Regulation on organic production and labelling of organic products, amending Regulation (EU) No XXX/XXX	2	3	LU Chambre des Députés (2 votes) AT Bundesrat (1 vote)
4	COM(2013) 894	Proposal for a Regulation on novel foods	2	2	FR Assemblée nationale (1 vote) FR Sénat (1 vote)
5	COM(2014) 212	Proposal for a Directive on single-member private limited liability companies	2	2	AT Nationalrat (1 vote) AT Bundesrat (1 vote)
6	COM(2013) 796	Proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 515/97 of 13 March 1997 on mutual assistance between the administrative authorities of the Member States and cooperation between the latter and the Commission to ensure the correct application of the law on customs and agricultural matters	1 3	2	ES Congreso de los Diputados and Senado (both chambers – 2 votes)
7	COM(2013) 814	Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2011/96/EU on the common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and subsidiaries of different Member States	1	2	SE Riksdag (2 votes)

8	COM(2013) 821	Proposal for a Directive on the strengthening of certain aspects of the presumption of innocence and of the right to be present at trial in criminal proceedings	1	1	UK House of Commons (1 vote)
9	COM(2013) 822	Proposal for a Directive on procedural safeguards for children suspected or accused in criminal proceedings	1	1	NL Tweede Kamer (1 vote)
10	COM(2013) 893	Proposal for a Council Directive on the placing on the market of food from animal clones	1	1	UK House of Commons (1 vote)
11	COM(2014) 4 4	Proposal for a Directive amending Directives 89/608/EEC, 90/425/EEC and 91/496/EEC as regards references to zootechnical legislation	1	1	IT Senato della Repubblica (1 vote) 5
12	COM(2014) 5 6	Proposal for a Regulation on the zootechnical and genealogical conditions for trade in and imports into the Union of breeding animals and their germinal products	1	1	IT Senato della Repubblica (1 vote) 7

13	COM(2014) 43	Proposal for a Regulation on structural measures improving the resilience of EU credit institutions	1	1	FR Sénat (1 vote)
14	COM(2014) 167	Proposal for a Directive on the activities and supervision of institutions for occupational retirement provision (recast)	1	1	NL Tweede Kamer (1 vote)
15	COM(2014) 221	Proposal for a Decision on establishing a European Platform to enhance cooperation in the prevention and deterrence of undeclared work	1	1	UK House of Commons (1 vote)
Number of reasoned opinions on documents counted individually		22
Number of reasoned opinions jointly concerning more than one document 8		1 9
TOTAL number of reasoned opinions received		21

(1) To qualify as a reasoned opinion as defined in Protocol No 2, an opinion must state why the national Parliament considers that a legislative proposal does not comply with the principle of subsidiarity and be sent to the Commission within eight weeks of the transmission of the proposal to national Parliaments.

(2) Under Protocol No 2, each national Parliament has two votes; in the case of a bicameral system, each chamber has one vote. Where reasoned opinions on a draft legislative act's non-compliance with the principle of subsidiarity represent at least a third of all votes allocated to the national Parliaments, the yellow card threshold is reached, i.e. the draft must be reviewed.

(3) This reasoned opinion came jointly from the ES Congreso de los Diputados and Senado (both chambers) – counted as one reasoned opinion from two chambers.

(4) The reasoned opinion concerning this Commission document jointly concerned COM(2014) 5 as well.

(5) This reasoned opinion from the IT Senato della Repubblica jointly concerned COM(2014) 4 and COM(2014) 5.

(6) The reasoned opinions concerning this Commission document jointly concerned COM(2014) 4 as well.

(7) As noted above, this reasoned opinion from the IT Senato della Repubblica jointly concerned COM(2014) 4 and COM(2014) 5.

(8)

As some reasoned opinions jointly concern more than one document, the table sets out the number of reasoned opinions issued for each individual document. In order to also show the number of reasoned opinions received by the Commission, the additional number of reasoned opinions jointly concerning more than one document is deducted.

(9) Referring, as noted above, to one reasoned opinion from the IT Senato della Repubblica jointly concerning COM(2014) 4 and COM(2014) 5.