Activities of Mikael GUSTAFSSON related to 2011/0130(COD)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters PDF (419 KB) DOC (375 KB)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) The application of this Regulation, and the procedures put in place to ensure protection, should take into account the fact that a large number of national protection measures are taken in relation to violence against women and violence in close relationships, and that there thus needs to be a readiness at Member State level to apply the set of particular protection measures often used in these cases.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 a (new)
Recital 13 a (new)
(13a) Member States should recognise and support the work of independent women's support services, including women's shelters, rape crisis centres and counselling centres. Cooperation with women's support structures is an important part of ensuring appropriate and efficient protection measures in cross-border cases, and Member States should therefore facilitate contact between such structures and the protected person, where appropriate.
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article -1 (new)
Article -1 (new)
Article -1 Objective This Regulation lays down rules allowing an authority in a Member State in which a protection measure has been taken with a view to protecting a person when there exist serious grounds for considering that person's life, physical or psychological integrity and dignity, personal liberty and security or sexual integrity to be at risk, including in cases of violence against women, such as physical violence, stalking, harassment, sexual aggression, intimidation, etc., to issue a certificate enabling a competent authority in another Member State to continue the protection of the person concerned in the territory of that other Member State.
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point a – paragraph 1
Article 2 – point a – paragraph 1
(a) ‘protection measure’ means any decision, whatever it may be called, of a preventive and temporary nature taken by an authority in a Member State in accordance with its national law with a view to protecting a person when serious reasons exist to consider the person's physical and/or psychological integrity or liberty to be at risk, including in cases of violence against women. It shall include measures ordered without the person causing the risk being summoned to appear.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15a Right to support Given that a large number of national protection measures are taken to prevent further violence against women, including physical violence, intimidation, sexual aggression, threats, etc., Member States shall, in accordance with Directive ... of the European Parliament and of the Council of … establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime* and from the date of application of that Directive, provide specialist support and assistance to victims of violence against women and of gender-based violence. ____________ * OJ L …., p. .