14 Amendments of Philippe BOULLAND related to 2012/2101(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3
Citation 3
– having regard to Article 47(3) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the Committee on Petitions’ working document on a fact- finding visit to Berlin (23-24 November 2011),
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the principle that proceedings should be brought before national courts first is an additional handicap for people requiring assistance in cross-border proceedings;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas information on legal aid for citizens must be provided in one of the EU’s languages so as to ensure that they have been informed of their legal aid options in a language they understand;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Deplores, however, the fact that Denmark is the only Member State not to have adopted Council Directive 2002/8/EC;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that new technologies and communication tools could be used to enable access to information on legal aid; hopes that these information campaigns will stress the importance of the e-Justice portal, which is intended to be a ‘one-stop shop’ in the area of justice;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers , as outlined in the European Parliament’s Committee on Petitions’ working document on a fact-finding visit to Berlin (23-24 November 2011),that databases of legal professionals with the sufficient linguistic and comparative law skills to act in cross- border legal aid cases should be established, thus ensuring that legal professionals are appointed who are able to act in such cases;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Takes the view that these databases should be additional to the databases of legal professionals on the e-Justice portal;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls for Member State notifications to the Commission covering the official language or languages of the Community institutions other than their own in which the competent receiving authority will accept legal aid applications submitted in accordance with Directive 2002/8/EC to be made available to the public, in particular on the e-Justice portal;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the importance of ensuring that application procedures are simple, so that citizens are always able to apply for legal aid without the help of a legal practitioner; advocates automatically informing citizens embarking on such procedures of the existence of the e-Justice portal, with a view to ensuring that they are better informed;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 15 – point 1 (new)
(1) Calls for national courts to be connected by an early-warning system so that, when an application for assistance is made in one Member States, the other Member States are made aware of it;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 17 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Encourages, to that end, the Member States to refer citizens to the equivalent of the national ombudsman; calls for all Member States to have a national ombudsman, who should have the power to access, for instance, all administrative or legal documents, so that all EU citizens may consult them;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 18 – point 1 (new)
(1) Wishes to inform the Member States that the systematic use of the European arrest warrant should not be encouraged in civil proceedings; calls, therefore, on Member States receiving a European arrest warrant against one of their citizens to contact the authorities of the requesting State in advance to ascertain whether the case justifies the use of a European arrest warrant, thus making it a criminal, rather than civil, law matter;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on Denmark to adopt Directive 2002/8/EC; notes that European citizens have contacted the European Parliament’s Committee on Petitions to complain about their helplessness and lack of support in respect of Danish court rulings, particularly in cross-border divorce cases;