11 Amendments of Daniel FREUND related to 2022/2898(RSP)
Amendment 16 #
Citation 35 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 24 November 2022 on the assessment of Hungary’s compliance with the rule of law conditions under the Conditionality Regulation and state of play of the Hungarian RRP,
Amendment 45 #
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas since May 2022, the Parliament has also addressed the rule of law situation in Hungary, Malta and Poland in its plenary resolutions; whereas Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs’ Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group has also addressed certain issues in Bulgaria, Greece, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain;
Amendment 78 #
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the addition of country- specific recommendations, as a follow up to the reiterated calls from Parliament to this end; recalls that the annual reports serve as a basis for informed discussions on the rule of law situation in Member States; acknowledges that these country- specific recommendations help to target specific issues with a view to achieving real improvements in Member States; deplores, however, the fact that the recommendations are not binding; calls on the Commission to develop the annual rule of law cycle further by assessing the implementation of the country-specific recommendations in the next annual report, with specific benchmarks and a clear timeline for implementation, clearly indicating progress and regression;
Amendment 107 #
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Amendment 111 #
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Amendment 121 #
Paragraph 15
15. Reiterates the recommendations to the Commission to differentiate between systemic and individual breaches, and to accompany the country-specific recommendations with deadlines for implemgrets the fact that the report fails to clearly recognise the deliberate process of the rule of law backsliding in several Member States; calls on the Commission to make clear that when the Article 2 TEU values are being systematically, deliberately, gravely and permanently violated over a period of time, Member States could fail to meet all criteria that define a democracy and become authoritarian regimes; recalls that the Parliament has already indicated that Hungary has turned into a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy, according to the relevant indices; reiterates the recommendations to the Commission to differentiation, targets and concrete actions to be takene between systemic and individual breaches, to avoid the risk of trivialising the most serious breaches of the rule of law;
Amendment 124 #
Paragraph 16
16. Recalls its position regarding the involvement of a panel of independent experts to advise the three institutions, in close cooperation with the FRA; repeats its call on the Commission to invite the FRA to provide methodological advice and conduct comparative research to add detail in key areas of the annual report, given the intrinsic links between fundamental rights and the rule of law; asks its Bureau, in light of the reluctance of the Commission and the Council, to organise a public procurement procedure in order to create such a panel under the auspices of Parliament, in line with the commitment undertaken in its previous resolutions1a, in order to advise Parliament on compliance with Article 2 TEU values in different Member States and to show by example how such a panel could work in practice; _________________ 1a Resolutions of 24 June 2021 on the Commission’s 2020 Rule of Law Report and of 19 May 2022 on the Commission’s 2021 Rule of Law Report
Amendment 126 #
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Reiterates its call on the Commission to consider a more comprehensive and ambitious revision of the FRA Regulation; calls on the Commission, therefore, to explore in the long-term the full potential of developing the FRA in accordance with principles relating to the status and functioning of national institutions for the protection and promotion of human rights (the Paris Principles) in order for it to become a fully independent body providing impartial and publicly available positions on country-specific situations in the field of democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights; underlines that such development should go hand in hand with an increase in available resources for the FRA;
Amendment 127 #
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Considers that cooperation with the Council of Europe and other international organisations is of particular relevance for advancing democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights in the EU; calls on the Commission to analyse systematically data on non-compliance with judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and views of the UN Treaty Bodies concerning individual communications;
Amendment 131 #
Paragraph 17
17. Reiterates that the annual rule of law cycle should serve as input for the activation of other instruments to respond to threats or breaches of the rule of law at national level, such as Article 7 TEU, the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation; infringement procedures, the Rule of Law Framework, infringement procedures, including expedited procedures, applications for interim measures before the CJEU and actions regarding non-implementation of CJEU judgments, or instruments under EU financial legislation; reiterates its call on the Commission to create a direct link between the annual rule of law reports, among other sources, and the Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism;
Amendment 132 #
Paragraph 18
18. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and the Commission, the Commission, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the United Nations and the governments and parliaments of the Member States.