AGREE that activities at EU level in the field of sport should focus on the priority themes, key topics, outputs and working methods and structures listed in this Work Plan, and as set out in Annex I.

III. WORKING METHODS AND STRUCTURES:

This is a powerful simplification method that should provide economic operators and enforcement authorities with a clearer and more streamlined regulatory framework.

1. This draft report on simplification seeks to respond to the Commission communication and, wherever possible, put forward suggestions for improving the effectiveness of the simplification methods proposed.

However, it ought to pay heed to the comments above and should try to be more precise regarding the improvements to be made to simplification methods without infringing the legislative procedures laid down in the Treaties.

23. Instructs its competent bodies to streamline the work of the Committee on Petitions with a view to ensuring that petitions are processed in a more cost-effective manner, inter alia by implementing a database, combining human resources and reorganising working methods, for example separating petitions which need a political follow up (A-Petition) from petitions which can be handled satisfactorily at a more administrative level, by way of the written procedure involving the members of the Petitions Committee without specific deliberation in Committee (inadmissible petitions and B-Petitions); instructs its services and its Committee on ...[+++] Constitutional Affairs to establish an action plan in order to implement new working methods and procedures and to prepare the required modifications to the relevant rules of Parliament's Rules of Procedure after having consulted the Petitions Committee;