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Towards more efficient and cost effective interpreting in the European Parliament
Subjects: Business of Parliament, procedure, sittings, rules of procedure · Budgetary control and discharge, implementation of the budget
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): DE LANGE Esther (PPE)
Summary
An own-initiative report on more efficient and cost-effective interpreting in the European Parliament. The amendments uphold multilingualism, webstreaming and video-on-demand access to sittings, a penalty clause against late cancellation of interpreter bookings, the use of Members' language profiles, rules on interpretation during delegation trips, lists of facilities requested but not used, and a Court of Auditors special report on interpretation and translation expenditure.
13
Amendments
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5
Members
tabled at least one
1
Committee
30 May 2013
Dates
Official amendment documents
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Members who amended this procedure
5 Members · by amendment count1





Peter van DALEN
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇳🇱 Netherlands
5(5 solo)
2
Cătălin Sorin IVAN
Non-attached · 🇷🇴 Romania
5(5 solo)
3
Zigmantas BALČYTIS
Socialists & Democrats · 🇱🇹 Lithuania
1(1 solo)
4
Paul RÜBIG
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇦🇹 Austria
1(1 solo)
5
Ismail ERTUG
Socialists & Democrats · 🇩🇪 Germany
1(1 solo)
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