Activities of Dominique MARTIN related to 2018/2044(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on Terrorism (debate) FR
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on Terrorism PDF (556 KB) DOC (134 KB)
Amendments (93)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the security of one Member State is the security of all in the Union; whereas in the last two years the EU and the Member States have made progress in countering the threats posed by terrorism;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas of 88 legally binding counter-terrorism measures proposed from September 2001 to summer 2013 only a quarter were subject to impact assessments and only three to public consultation; whereas this ratio has improved in recent years and the most recent initiatives presented by the Commission in 2017 and 2018 were accompanied by the necessary justification; whereas with the Agenda on Better Regulation adopted in 2015 the Commission has also strengthened its policy on stakeholder consultation;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas in the counter-terrorism field, which is a particularly sensitive case, even if it is possible to encourage public consultation, it is not required;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas in recent years the EU Member States have suffered major terrorist attacks, perpetrated or inspired by jihadist groups such as Daesh or Al-Qaeda; whereas far right, far left and ethno- nationalist separatist extremism are also matters of concernthe vast majority of the time by jihadist groups such as Islamic State/Daesh or Al-Qaeda;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas 3 400 deaths have been recorded in Europe since 2001;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas developments and instability in the Middle East, North Africa, and Caucasian regions have enabled Daesh and other terrorist groups to gain a foothold in countries bordering the EU such as those of the Western Balkans, and the nexus between internal and external security has become more prominentincontrovertible;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas there has been a change of strategy since the military collapse of Daesh in its territory, with a decline in numbers of those travelling to Syria and Iraq for terrorist purposes and, firstly due to certain jihadists returning from these countries, and secondly jihadists and ‘sleeper-cells’ inside the EU being encouraged to carry out attacks in their home countries;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas Daesh and Al-Qaeda are financially self-reliant and whereas illicit trade in goods, firearms, oil, drugs, cigarettes and cultural objects, among other items such as VAT fraud, as well as trafficking in human beings, slavery, child exploitation, racketeering and extortion, have become means for terrorist groups to obtain funding; whereas the link between organised crime and terrorist groups constitutes a growing security threat; whereas these sources could enable the continued funding of future criminal activities by Al-Qaeda, as well as by Daesh following its territorial collapse in Syria and Iraq;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas terrorists continue to use small arms and explosives and have increasingly resorted to ad hocso-called improvised weapons such as vehicles, trucks, axes, and knifes; whereas recent attacks have been prepared thoroughly or carried out spontaneously;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas the use of drones is also a real and concerning threat, especially as regards chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) risks;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas, similarly, jihadists who have served time in prison but who still remain radicalised afterwards pose just as big a threat;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas perpetrators of terrorist attacks in the EU very often include EU nationals, often migrants who arrived during recent waves of immigration, or if not, second or third generation migrants, who have grown up in the Member States which they have attacked, as well as foreigners who may in some cases have resided for a significant time in the Member State targeted;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas most migrants wish to seek a new life and integrate into our countries but a major terrorist threat can be created by relatively few people, and our open societies and open borders are vulnerable to abuse, with some terrorists making use of migrants’ and asylum seekers’ routes of access to European countries and exploiting the freedom of movement across Europe;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T
Recital T
T. whereas new forms of terrorism may be used for an attack, among them cyber-terrorism and the use of weapons of mass destruction; whereas there is the precedent of a foiled attack involving the highly toxic biological agent ricin; whereas there are cases where Daesh has used or planned to use chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) materials, and shared via social media channels possible tacticutorials and methods for attacks and targets;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Preventing and Countering Islamist Radicalisation
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital W
Recital W
W. whereas national strategies against radicalisation are important in terms of providing general frameworks for programmes at local level; whereas these strategies must ensure sufficient financing for local authorities, vetted NGOs and civil society partners so that these programmes can be implemented;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Z a (new)
Recital Z a (new)
Za. whereas professionals working in this area claim that the anti-radicalisation programmes have been a failure;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Z b (new)
Recital Z b (new)
Zb. whereas these experts deem disengagement to be a temporary solution to Islamist terrorism because it is an opportunity to deter individuals from committing a terrorist act if attempts to change their ideology have already failed;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AA
Recital AA
AA. whereas it is estimated that there are between 50 000 and 70 000 radicalised jihadists in the EU, of whom a large percentage reside in France, where according to Samir Amghar there are between 20 000 and 30 000 followers of a fundamentalist and ultra-conservative version of Islam and 10 500 flagged by law enforcement for their ‘belonging or connection to the Islamic movement’ according to the French Prime Minister in 2015;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AB
Recital AB
AB. whereas a violent radicalised Islamist discourse has been increasingly present in the territory of the EU, often in the form of books, teaching or audiovisual content, including on social media and satellite TV channels; whereas this discourse opposes European values, undermines pluralism, promotes violence and intolerance against all other religions, is openly anti-Semitic, refuses equality between men and women, and rejects the science and education which have been promoted by Islam during centuries;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AC
Recital AC
AC. whereas there is not a definitive hierarchy, and whereas there is a prevalence of Wahhabi and Salafist literature available in certain bookshops and online in Europe, leaving little alternative interpretation available to Muslim communities;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AD
Recital AD
AD. whereas throughout Europe significant numbers of cases of radical Islamist hate preachers have been documented; whereas the hate preachers often originate from outside the EU, while mosques receive opaque funding from third countries;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AD a (new)
Recital AD a (new)
ADa. whereas when Member States have the legal means to prevent the Islamist hate preachers from operating, they do not make the necessary arrangements to do so;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AG
Recital AG
AG. whereas in the European Internet Forum launched in 2015 companies cooperate to remove terrorist content from their websites on a voluntary, albeit insufficient, basis;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AI
Recital AI
AI. whereas although majorsome progress has been made with regard to removal of online terrorist content, there is a need to scale up the companies’ engagement; whereas the removals are often not complete and are temporary, removing the content from one website but leaving it on another belonging to the same company; whereas effective and comprehensive reporting by companies has to be improved;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AI a (new)
Recital AI a (new)
AIa. whereas effective, comprehensive and transparent reporting by companies should be improved;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AI b (new)
Recital AI b (new)
AIb. whereas if some progress has been made, the ‘dark web’ still remains a major problem as it is one of the biggest sources of illegal content;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AM
Recital AM
AM. whereas the use of encryption (optimistic in itself) by terrorists to protect their communications or stored data represents a considerable challenge for law enforcement, denying access to essential intelligence and evidence, which are required for a court ruling; whereas encryption becomes particularly critical when even the responsible online service providers are unwilling or unable to decrypt the communication; whereas service providers’ refusal to cooperate cannot be tolerated;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AM a (new)
Recital AM a (new)
AMa. whereas the use of new communication channels, such as online games (the game ‘Clash of Clans’ available on smartphones, for example), also complicates matters;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AN
Recital AN
AN. whereas there is a fragmented framework of existing systems, new systems in the process of development, proposals for future systems and proposals for reforms to address identified gaps and barriers still under negotiation; whereas this fragmented framework is the result of historical factors and a reactive approach in the proposal and adoption of new legislation;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AS
Recital AS
AS. whereas several pilot projects are being implemented with the aim of overcoming the disadvantages of a decentralised EU PNR system; whereas there is a need for a quick reply to requests from passenger information units (PIUs) of other Member States, which may prove challenging as they are always processed manually;
Amendment 369 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AZ a (new)
Recital AZ a (new)
AZa. whereas when these foreign terrorist fighters are arrested on the territory of Member States they are not deported to their countries of origin;
Amendment 378 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BB
Recital BB
BB. whereas security services tend to cooperate and exchange information bilaterally or through the Counter Terrorism Group (CTG); whereas it is necessary to find a practical solution to fill the existing gaps between the parallel tracks of the law enforcement community and the intelligence community, as well as between Europol’s ECTC and the CTG, in order to allow a more systematic interaction between both communities and an enhanced operational cooperation, while still keeping them separatein order to allow a more systematic interaction between the different communities (law enforcement and intelligence) and ensure that there is effective operational cooperation between them;
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BC
Recital BC
BC. whereas the UK government has expressed its intention of leaving the EU on 29 March 2019; whereas the EU and the UK are highly interdependent in the area of security and counter-terrorism; whereas both should be ableit is imperative for both to continue to share, collect and analyse vital operational intelligence in the fight against serious crime on a level equivalent to the current one;
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BE
Recital BE
BE. whereas designated CT Liaison Officers can bring added value both to the work of the agencies and to their own Member States;
Amendment 407 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BH
Recital BH
BH. whereas mutual legal assistance (MLA) mechanisms are progressively being replaced by mutual recognition instruments as the latter help improve cross-border cooperation between competent authorities within the EU by speeding up and streamlining the procedures; whereas the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) Decision and the European Investigation Order (EIO) Directive are examples of mutual recognition instruments that have been found by practitioners to be useful;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BK
Recital BK
BK. whereas close cooperation with online service providers (OSPs) is necessaryindispensable when it comes to securing and obtaining electronic evidence, given its importance for investigating terrorist offences;
Amendment 429 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BM
Recital BM
BM. whereas the thwarted attack on the Thalys train of 21 August 2015, the Paris attacks of 13 November 2015 and the Brussels attacks of 22 March 2016 have demonstrated major failures in European border control policy, and are therefore a clear sign of the failure of Schengen, since at least eight of these attacks’ perpetrators entered Greece via irregular flows in July, August and October 2015;
Amendment 432 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BN
Recital BN
BN. whereas the Council conclusions 10152/17 recommend to Member States that all irregularllegal clandestine migrants are checked at national level against databases fed and used by competent authorities and the national Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), at European and international level against the SIS, Europol, VIS, Eurodac and Interpol databases (I-24/7 network) and more specifically Nominal data, Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD), Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTF) and Travel Documents Associated with Notices (TDAWN);
Amendment 462 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BT
Recital BT
BT. whereas Operation Sophia has technical and human capabilities to contribute to the fight against terrorism; whereas if it is to effectively contribute to this effort, the mandate of Operation Sophia has to be amended, by extending both its competences and its mandate;
Amendment 463 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BT a (new)
Recital BT a (new)
BTa. whereas in the long term a ‘no way’ European policy must be put in place, namely a strict policy against illegal immigration;
Amendment 464 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 12
Subheading 12
Amendment 476 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BV
Recital BV
BV. whereas social media fundraising, non-profit organisations and small wire transfers are funding methods for Daesh and other terrorist organisations; whereas micro lending and online participative financing (‘crowdfunding’) platforms are used to facilitate all three of these typologies;
Amendment 507 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CE
Recital CE
CE. whereas the private sector shouldmust be involved in the protection of critical infrastructure and soft targets;
Amendment 518 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CJ
Recital CJ
CJ. whereas the explosive used in most of the attacks was triacetone triperoxide (TATP), a home-made explosive that remains the explosive of choice for terrorists; whereas TATP can be quite easily manufactured using only a few substances;(does not affect the English version)
Amendment 552 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CW
Recital CW
CW. whereas regions which are not direct EU neighbours but are areas of interest, such as the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, have also experienced the development of terrorist networks; whereas in these regions Islamist religious radicalism benefiting from external financing is also a serious concern;
Amendment 569 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CZ
Recital CZ
CZ. whereas in the 20-year period 1998- 2018, some 6 652 people were direct victims of terrorism across Europe, with 713 murdered and 5 939 injured; whereas prior to 2001 most victims of terrorism were mainly attributable to the IRA and ETA. while since then, according to the most recent reports by Europol (European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TE-SAT) 2016-2017 and 2018), the vast majority were as a result of Islamist terrorism;
Amendment 580 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital DB
Recital DB
DB. whereas victims of terrorism have a very specific status, and meeting their needs is not only a legal obligation under EU, international and national law but also a moral responsibility for the whole of our societies;
Amendment 631 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates that while Member States remain first in line to respond to and prevent threats, a clear need exists to fully recognise the Security Union’s role in supporting them, and providing common solutions and adding value, must be recognised;
Amendment 638 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that, at this stage, the EU and the Member States should improve cooperation through existing European specialist security and counter-terrorism agencies and Member States’ security and justice institutions;
Amendment 651 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the next President of the Commission to maintain a self-standing portfolio for the Commissioner for Security Union; believes, however that the Commissioner’s mandate should not be significantly expanded;
Amendment 690 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recommends to the Member States that they start building appropriate structures to respond to child returnees, and in particular the development of expertise, including that of experienced professionals, in the areas of trauma, Islamist extremism, child development, education and risk assessment and tailored to the local and national context, as well as clear legal and organisational structures for dealing with this phenomenon;
Amendment 724 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that terrorists have been known to start off in petty crime and are often not of European origin; is concerned that certain Member States’ justice systems have low conviction rates, with inadequate sentences being issued for serious crime and radicalised individuals being released prematurely or on parole; therefore encourages Member States to organise their justice systems such as to ensure effective intervention vis-à-vis habitual offenders and sufficient dissuasiveness for such offenders;
Amendment 731 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 22
Subheading 22
Preventing and countering Islamist radicalisation
Amendment 747 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for the creation of an EU ‘Centre of Excellence for Preventing Radicalisation (CoE PR)’, to be embedded in the Commission with adequate financial and human resources; believes its tasks should include coordination, including of funding, and facilitation of cooperation among Member States, policymakers, practitioners (by involving former RAN and ESCN structures), experts and researchers in the area of preventing and countering radicalisation, exchange of best practices, lighthouse projects and training, also by partnering with key strategic third countries; considers that this centre should also establish methodologies to evaluate and measure the effectiveness of programmes and projects;
Amendment 754 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the European Court of Auditor’s report of 2018 on deradicalisation found that the Commission does not maintain a complete overview of EU-funded measures, and that no indicators or targets for EU funds are used to measure to what extent the approach is successful; with effectiveness called into question by the experts, calls on the Commission to propose a new financial instrument in the forthcoming MFF for preventing and countering radicalisation, which would streamline resources currently fragmented across different funds and programmes and allow for better coordination and visibility as well as higher impact;
Amendment 756 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Member States to adopt comprehensive national and regional strategies for preventing and countering radicalisation, with adequate financial resources for communities and non-state actors at local level involved in the creation and implementation of programmes based on these strategies, and calls for a multi- agency approach; stresses that best results are achieved in partnership with local communities;
Amendment 765 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the creation of a European Simone VeilArnaud Beltrame Resilience Prize, which would be awarded every year to the best social and cultural project at local level in the EU, promoting societal engagement, EU fundamental values, inclusiveness and democracy with the aim of building resilient societies that are immune to poefforts to counter Islarmisation andt radicalisation;
Amendment 783 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges the Member States to encourage and tolerate only ‘practices of Islam’ that are in full accordance with EU valuthe constitutional laws of the Member States; welcomes the initiatives by the few moderate Muslim religious communities throughout Europe to counter the dangerous narratives from within their communities;
Amendment 788 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Member States to ask imams (moderate or hate preachers), Muslim associations (all branches combined) and collectives claiming to be Muslim to comment on texts calling for violence in reference books; these legal and natural persons representing, if not a hierarchy, a de facto authority over the communities;
Amendment 789 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls on the Member States to prohibit, not prayer, but the preaching of imams (i.e. teaching) in the Arabic language;
Amendment 790 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Calls on the Member States to prohibit Islamist works that call for radicalisation or terrorism;
Amendment 801 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States to conduct prior screenings of chaplainimams and to consistently blacklist any hate preachers; calls on the Commission to introduce an EU watch list so as to better exchange information on radical chaplainimams;
Amendment 810 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to increase the offer of higher education opportunities for chaplainimams in the EU, with accrediting theological education programmes integrating EU values; invites the Commission and the Member States to develop and fund a network of European religious scholars that can spread - and testify to - practices of Islam that are compliant with EU values;
Amendment 822 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 25
Subheading 25
Acting against hate speech and extremist Islamist groups
Amendment 828 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Member States to implement the CT Directive under which incitement to commit a terrorist act is a criminal offence, in order to exclude Islamist hate preachers from public activity using all legal measures, including refusal of visas or expulsion from EU territory, and to start judicial proceedings against such preachers;
Amendment 845 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Invites the Member States to examine how to ensure that places of worship, Qur'anic education, charities, cultural associations and similar entities provide details regarding the provenance of their funds and their distribution, both within and outside the EU, and how data concerning these entities, where there exists suspicion or reasonable grounds to suspect links with terrorist groups, could be recorded in a centralised database, set up with all the appropriate guarantees;
Amendment 859 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Asks the Member States to ban and remove all religious literature within their territory that incites to violent and terrorist acts; asks for such literature to be removed from online platforms and shops as part of the referrals by the Internet Referral Unit;(Does not affect the English version)
Amendment 864 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Highlights that Member States have to ensure that all educational institutions provide education in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rightsconstitutional laws of each Member State, i.e. education that does not promote Islamist terrorism, through checks on curricula, regular inspections and sanctions for non- compliance;
Amendment 873 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Member States to establish binding procedures for schools for tackling the challenge of radicalised pupils, and to offer training for teachers with regard to this; stresses the need for involvement of law enforcement and justice bodies in the process of addressing radicalisation;
Amendment 896 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Underlines the need to achieve automatic, fast and full removal of terrorist content; requests the Commission to present a legislative proposal obliging companies to remove terrorist content fully within onea maximum of 24 hours and to introduce clear reporting obligations on the incidence of terrorist content and removal rates, as well as sanctions for non- compliance;
Amendment 914 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for the creation of an online European platform that citizens can use in order to flag terrorist and extremist content online;
Amendment 916 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Calls on companies to make it easier for European citizens to report terrorist content online and to increase the companies’ ability to react to such reported content;
Amendment 928 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Calls for the duty of remembrance to be honoured with the creation of a memorial for the victims of Islamist terrorism;
Amendment 935 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on Member States to ensure safe and orderly prison conditions and to create specific procedures for radicalised inmates, in order to prevent, by all available means (including isolation), the radicalisation of others, as well as to ensure targeted monitoring and targeted disengagement measures, and to train prison staff accordingly;
Amendment 957 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
Amendment 967 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Urges Member States to implement, fully and on time, the existing legislation, and calls on the Commission to provide the necessary support; calls on the Commission to use its powers to initiate infringement proceedings when Member States fail to properly implement legislation;
Amendment 981 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Calls for the security budget to be increased without increasing the overall MFF budget;
Amendment 998 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Points out that existing opt-outs by some Member States from police and judicial cooperation measures for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences could endanger the speed and efficiency of terrorism investigations and may have detrimental effects; calls on Member States to abstain from opt-outs in this crucial field;
Amendment 1050 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
Amendment 1081 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
52. Criticises the lack of appropriate funding and staffing for eu-LISA, considering its continuously increasing responsibilities; calls for eu-LISA to be reinforced with the additional capacity and resources needed to perform the new tasks efficiently, and for this to be reflected in the new MFF; provided the latter is not expanded as a whole;
Amendment 1123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
Amendment 1137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59
Amendment 1148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62
Paragraph 62
62. Urges the Commission and the Member States to provide enhanced financial and human resources, including data scientists and big data analysts, for the development of technical solutions to deal with the high volume of data to be analysed; calls for Europol to be tasked with further R&D projects, with a focus on standardisation and big data management for the benefit of Member States;(Does not affect the English version.)
Amendment 1163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65
Paragraph 65
Amendment 1259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85 a (new)
Paragraph 85 a (new)
85 a. Calls on EBCGA to carry out its mandate in full, in particular helping irregular immigrants return to their countries of origin, thus assisting with remigration;
Amendment 1310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 94
Paragraph 94
94. Is highly concerned at the scale of illicit tobacco markets and drug markets in the EU, the proceeds of which can be used to finance terrorism; invites the Member States to consider ratifying and implementing the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products and Drugs to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC);
Amendment 1327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 98
Paragraph 98
Amendment 1381 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 111
Paragraph 111
111. Welcomes the cross-border exercise to improve the protection of soft targets against terrorist attacks, involving Belgium and the Netherlands, which took place in June 2017; notes that the exercise was funded by the Commission and aimed at measuring preparedness and crisis management functions in a situation where two attacks take place simultaneously in different countries;
Amendment 1397 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 119 a (new)
Paragraph 119 a (new)
119 a. Points out that the firearms used by terrorists are illicit firearms, and thus urges against taking disproportionate measures that would have an impact on economic, cultural (the hunter association, for instance) and sports sectors linked to firearms seeing they would unfairly restrict the freedom of the owners of legal firearms, yet have no actual impact on illegal firearms, meaning terrorist networks and firearms trafficking would be free to thrive as a result;
Amendment 1510 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 137
Paragraph 137
137. Calls for legislation in the field of terrorism and national, regional and local response strategies for protection, resilience and response in case of an attack to take into account the specific needs and specific circumstances of vulnerable/disabled people; further calls for the involvement of persons with disabilities and their representative organisations in any decision-making that affects them;