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Highlights - European Citizens Initiative – exchange about the draft report - Committee on Constitutional Affairs 07-03-2018 02:43 PM CET On 21 March the AFCO committee will hold a first exchange about the draft report prepared by Mr Schöpflin on the new legislative proposal for the European Citizens' Initiative Regulation (2017/0220(COD)). The draft report aims at providing more flexibility and support to the organisers of an ECI, to oblige the Commission to deliver a detailed analysis and justification should it refuse to register an initiative and to enhance the political follow-up by the Commission of successful initiatives. As a horizontal measure it aims to enhance the transparency of the ECI funding and graduate ECI from a separate budget line into a fully-fledged program. On 21 February, AFCO together with PETI held a public hearing on the ECI. The hearing was organized against the backdrop of the Commission's legislative proposal for the revision of the current ECI Regulation. Ever since the first review of the Regulation in 2015, Parliament has been calling on the Commission to revise the ECI in order to make it more a visible, credible and user-friendly instrument - a challenge on which the current legislative proposal aims to deliver. At the hearing, Members were able to exchange on this issue with a number of practitioners and experts, which included NGOs, academia, the European Commission, the European Ombudsman, as well as representatives from the citizen committees of the previous ECIs 'Right2Water' and 'Minority Safepack'. Further information Hearing event page Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP QUESTIONS? STAY CONNECTED  Contact Us |   This email was sent on behalf of the European Parliament · Bât. Altiero Spinelli · 60 rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60 · B-1047 - Bruxelles/Brussels  · Belgium · Phone: +32(0)2 28 42111