39. Notes the growing number of petitions in the course of the legislative period and remains hi
ghly concerned that delays and response times are still too long throughout the registration phase and the admissibility phase in the process; calls for pro
viding the Unit for Reception and Referral of Official Documents and the Petitions Committee Secretariat, respectively, with an additional administrator with juridical background, to issue recommendations related to whether the petition lies within the competence of European law; consi
...[+++]ders that, these recommendations, along with summaries of petitions, need to be provided to Members only in English first and then to be translated into all official languages only when being published; in order to further speed up the first decisions on admissibility; expects that the launch of the new petitions web-portal will diminish the number of questionable submissions which are occasionally registered as petitions;