Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move:

That Seanad Éireann:
(1) notes the agreed Report of the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications under Standing Order 101 on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down measures concerning the European single market for electronic communications and to achieve a Connected Continent, and amending Directives 2002/20/EC, 2002/21/EC and 2002/22/EC and Regulations (EC) No. 1211/2009 and (EU) No. 531/2012, COM (2013) 627 which was laid before Seanad Éireann on 23 October, 2013 in accordance with Standing Order 101(3)(b);
(2) having regard to the aforementioned Report, and in exercise of its functions under section 7(3) of the European Union Act 2009, is of the opinion that the Proposal for a Regulation the Council laying down measures concerning the European single market for electronic communications and to achieve a Connected Continent, and amending Directives 2002/20/EC, 2002/21/EC and 2002/22/EC and Regulations (EC) No. 1211/2009 and (EU) No. 531/2012, COM (2013) 627, does not comply with the principle of subsidiarity for the reasons set out in paragraph 5 of the Report, and
(3) notes that, pursuant to Standing Order 101(4), a copy of this Resolution together with the reasoned opinion and the aforementioned Report shall be sent to the Presidents of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission."