Activities of Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ related to 2018/2044(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on Terrorism (debate)
Amendments (84)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
- having regard to Directive (EU) 2017/541 of the European Parliament and the Council of 15 March 2017 on combating terrorism and replacing Council Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA and amending Council Decision 2005/671/JHA,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 b (new)
Citation 3 b (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 5 October 2017 on prison systems and conditions (2015/2062(INI)),
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 c (new)
Citation 3 c (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 3 May 2018 on media pluralism and media freedom in the European Union (2017/2209(INI)),
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 d (new)
Citation 3 d (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 1 March 2018 on the situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2016 (2017/2125(INI)),
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 e (new)
Citation 3 e (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 30 May 2018 on the implementation of Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime(2016/2328(INI)),
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 f (new)
Citation 3 f (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 25 November 2015 on the prevention of radicalisation and recruitment of European citizens by terrorist organisations (2015/2063(INI)),
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 g (new)
Citation 3 g (new)
- having regard to the Opinion of the European Committee of the Regions – Combatting radicalisation and violent extremism: prevention mechanisms at local and regional level,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 h (new)
Citation 3 h (new)
- having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 i (new)
Citation 3 i (new)
- having regard to the Council of Europe handbook for prison and probation services regarding radicalisation and violent extremism,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 j (new)
Citation 3 j (new)
- having regard to the European Court of Auditors Special report Tackling radicalisation that leads to terrorism: the Commission addressed the needs of Member States, but with some shortfalls in coordination and evaluation,
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading -1 (new)
Subheading -1 (new)
-1 Fundamental rights
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas counter-terrorism measures and the protection of freedoms are not conflicting goals, but complementary and mutually reinforcing;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-A a. whereas the Union is founded on the values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as on the principles of democracy and the rule of law; whereas acts of terrorism constitute one of the most serious violations of these universal values and principles;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A b (new)
Recital -A b (new)
-A b. whereas the EU should do the utmost possible to guarantee the wellbeing of its citizens who are endangered by terrorists; whereas Article 6 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights enshrines both the right to liberty and the right to security, which complement each other; so that wherever measures are taken to combat terrorism, the right to liberty must be safeguarded in all cases; whereas Article 10 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights ensures the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A c (new)
Recital -A c (new)
-A c whereas the Charter of Fundamental Rights prohibits discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation; and recognises the right of people with disabilities to benefit from measures to ensure their independence, social and occupational integration, and participation in the life of the community; whereas the rights of persons with disabilities in the EU are also protected by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
Amendment 22 #
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 which require a holistic approach, articulating internal and external security and national and European coordination;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the national security and intelligence agencies of EU Member States and of some third countries cooperate very effectively through the Counter Terrorism Group (CTG), an informal body outside the EU, and on a bilateral and multilateral basis; whereas the EU has an established complex of structures dealing wholly or in part with terrorism, notably through Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC)through EU Intelligence and Situation Centre (INTCEN), as the gateway for strategic intelligence from the intelligence and security services to the EU, and Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC), as the central hub for law enforcement information exchange and cooperation in the field of counter terrorism at the EU level;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the diverse landscape of regional, national, EU and international actors in the field of terrorism with overlappingspecific competences and insufficiently delineateddifferent mandates, the multitude of formal and informal fora for cooperation and exchange of information, as well as the division of competences between the different regional and national agencies, between law enforcement services and intelligence services and between the EU and the Member States, give rise to difficulties with regard to the coordinationrequire consistent efforts in order to provide efficiency and coherence of the response to the terrorist threat;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the Commissioner for Security Union is a valued actor in joining up the Commission’'s policy development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; whereas the establishment of the position of Commissioner for Security Union signals the EU’'s commitment to encouragingsupport cooperation between Member States on issues of EU internal security while fully respecting the status of these matters as national competencies as laid down in the Treaties;
Amendment 81 #
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, Hezbollah or Al-Qaeda; whereas far right, far left and ethno- nationalist separatist extremism are also matters of concern;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
K a. whereas the cross-border aspects of the terrorist threat call for a coordinated EU approach by offering cooperation and assistance in the form of capacity-building in third-countries;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas Daesh and Al-Qaeda arim to be financially self-reliant and whereas illicit trade in goods, firearms, oil, drugs, cigarettes and cultural objects, among other items, as well as trafficking in human beings, slavery, child exploitation, racketeering and extortion, have become means for terrorist groups to obtain funding; whereas the possible links between organised crime and terrorist groups could constitutes a growing noteworthy 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 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S
Recital S
S. whereas the flow of illegal migrants and refugees poses challenges to the integration process, which have already been exploited by extremists and could be further exploited in the future;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital X
Recital X
X. whereas experts highlight the positive experience offered by a multi- agency approach, focusing on creating infrastructures that ensure the provision of early-stage support to those vulnerable to radicalisation and their families from different authorities and organisations across multiple levels and emphasising the supportive role of the police, thus strengthening the relationship;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Y b (new)
Recital Y b (new)
Y b. whereas the promotion of social inclusion and active promotion of democratic values contribute to mitigate the risk of radicalisation through practical measures to address violent extremist ideologies, poverty, discrimination and marginalisation, including the prevention of early school leaving and school exclusion, enhancing equality, social cohesion and encouraging active citizenship;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AC
Recital AC
AC. whereas there is a prevalence of Wahhabi and Salafist literature available in certain bookshops and online in Europe, leaving little moderate alternative interpretation available to Muslim communities;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AG a (new)
Recital AG a (new)
AG a. whereas several recent investigations have shown that the internet and namely social media can play a role as a driver of radicalisation leading to violent extremism as well as a tool for xenophobic groups to disseminate hate speech and illicit content especially among young people;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AH a (new)
Recital AH a (new)
AH a. whereas combating radicalisation and violent extremism requires close and coordinated collaboration between all concerned actors, at all levels of governance (local, regional and national) as well as with civil society and the private sector;
Amendment 268 #
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 nor timely or permanent, removing the content from one website but leaving it on another belonging to the same company; whereas effective and comprehensive and transparent reporting by companies has to be improved;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AJ
Recital AJ
AJ. whereas, in response to larger companies removing more content and doing so at a greater pace, Daesh is increasingly using new and/or smaller platforms which are less suited to fast removal of terrorist material; whereas this diversification to smaller platforms makes additional technical support and the sharing of best practices essential to enable, for example, the introduction of platform-agnostic automated tools, such as the database of hashes which can identify online terrorist content with a high degree of accuracy;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AK
Recital AK
AK. whereas prisons have become hothouses of extremism, incubatmagnify and accelerate the threat of radicalisation of offenders, incubating and enabling terroristsm; whereas many of those serving prison sentences will soon be released back into their communities and there are few resources to monitor their activities; whereas prison conditions can play a significant role in heightening or lessening risks of radicalisationwith particular reintegration needs and high risk of re- offending; whereas there are few resources to monitor their activities and achieve re- entry into society; whereas prison regimes and risk management can play a significant role to mitigate these threats;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AL
Recital AL
AL. whereas retention of data is an essential part of the investigative process; whereas police and judicialthe national competent authorities usually rely heavily on communications data to successfully proceed with their casework; whereas in order for interoperability of information systems to reach its full potential, harmonised data retention regimes across the EU are vital; whereas the necessity of an appropriate data retention regime when it comes to the fight against terrorism was consistently raised during the work of the TERR Committee;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AM
Recital AM
AM. whereas the use of encryption by terrorists to protect their communications or stored data represents a considerable challenge for law enforcement,the national competent authorities denying access to essential intelligence and evidence; whereas encryption becomes particularly critical when even the responsible online service providers are unwilling or unable to decrypt the communication;
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AY
Recital AY
AY. whereas a variety of factors can lead to difficulties in cooperation between the different national, regional and local services within the Member States, such as: overlapping competences and insufficiently delineated mandates; hesitancy to share information as this might result in loss of responsibility or loss of important information flows; legal obstacles when it comes to sharing information between different servicauthorities or the possibility of using intelligence in court cases; servicauthorities being obliged to compete with each other for resources; and technical barriers to information exchange;
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AZ
Recital AZ
AZ. whereas adjusting thethe different legal standards applying to information exchange between intelligence and, respectively, the law enforcement authorities isare one of the main challenges that need to be addressed, especially, since intelligence often concerns information on people who are not yet suspects in criminal investigations but belong to terrorist networks or are returning FTFs;
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BA
Recital BA
BA. whereas a possible solution could also be offered by the creation of counter- terrorism centres or units within the national territory; whereas such centres allow representatives of the different servicnational competent authorities to communicate with each other on a regular basis and discuss how best to cooperate and exchange information; whereas this helps build trust between the servicnational competent authorities and fosters a better understanding of their respective working methods and challenges;
Amendment 379 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BB
Recital BB
BB. whereas security services tend to cooperate and exchange information bilaterally or multilaterally - notably through the Counter Terrorism Group (CTG) and with the EU bodies via EU INTCEN, by sharing strategic intelligence; 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 operationalmore efficient cooperation, while still keeping them separate;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BD
Recital BD
BD. whereas efficient and systematic cooperation between the Member States and the EU aAgencies, according to their legal mandates, as well as among the agencies in the counter-terrorism field is imperative, especially cooperation between Europol and Eurojust in order to effectively support the efforts to detect, prevent, and investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of a terrorist attack;
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BG
Recital BG
BG. whereas several EU instruments such as Decision 2005/671/JHA, the CT Directive and the Europol regulation require Member States to share information on terrorism with the relevant agencies; whereas increased information sharing with Europol and Eurojust on a regular basis and in a timely and systematic manner, including contextual information, according to their legal mandates, facilitates their work in detecting links between cases and providing an overview of challenges and best practice related to investigations, prosecutions and convictions for terrorist offences;
Amendment 479 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BV
Recital BV
BV. whereas social media fundraising, non-profit organisations and small wire transfers arecould be used as funding methods for Daesh and other terrorist organisations; whereas micro lending platforms are used to facilitate all three of these typologies;
Amendment 497 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CA
Recital CA
CA. whereas cyber-attacks on electronic services or through interconnected systems are a key compontent of hybrid threatsial tool for cyber terrorism;
Amendment 498 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CB
Recital CB
CB. whereas the Commission Comprehensive Assessment of EU Security Policy and the evaluation study of Directive 2008/114/EC in need of revision and updating indicate that: the threat to critical infrastructures is likely to continue to rise, that there is a need to enhance preparation and response capabilities and to revise Directive 2008/114/EC, and that there is an interest in targeting transport infrastructures; whereas a better framework is needed to improve rail security and to address the issue of protection of public areas of transport infrastructures, such as airports and railway stations and also energy production facilities, with particular attention to nuclear power plants;
Amendment 505 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CE
Recital CE
CE. whereas the private sector should be involved in the protection and insurance of critical infrastructure and soft targets;
Amendment 511 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CG
Recital CG
CG. whereas the Commission, in its communication on the new Multiannual Financial Framework, proposes to significantly increase EU funding for security and defence, including EU internal security;
Amendment 530 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CR
Recital CR
CR. whereas the potential crime-terror nexus could also facilitates the access of terrorists to firearms;
Amendment 536 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CT
Recital CT
CT. whereas the key regions in the EU’s 's neighbourhood, and more specifically the Balkans, the Caucasus and North Africa, are facing important challenges such as those relating to foreign fighters and returnees management, as well as to home- grown radical cells;
Amendment 575 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital DA
Recital DA
DA. whereas deaththe aftermath of terrorist attacks destroys families and leaves a legacy of irrevocable sadness, and many of the injured survivors of terrorist attacks suffer disfiguring and life- changing loss of senses and limbs and their plight impacts heavily on close family and community, while too often once the media spotlight has passed, the long-term needs of the victims are neglected;
Amendment 593 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital DE a (new)
Recital DE a (new)
DE a. whereas businesses, including SMEs, can also suffer damage from terrorism such as property damage and business interruption;
Amendment 597 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital DF
Recital DF
Amendment 604 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital DG
Recital DG
Amendment 610 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital DH
Recital DH
Amendment 634 #
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 recognisrther clarify and consolidate the Security Union’'s role in supporting them, providing common solutions and adding value;
Amendment 641 #
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 agencies and Member States’ security' competent authorities and justice institutions;
Amendment 670 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to work with the Member States towards more transparency and a common understanding of threat levels; calls on the Member States to swiftly transmit to the appropriate EU bodies information on the change of the threat level and the rationale behind it;
Amendment 682 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to monitor all identified foreign terrorist fighters; calls for an effective and appropriate follow-up of the threat posed by returnees, and for this purpose invites Member States to share contextual information about returnees via Europol; calls on the Commission to assist Member States in the establishment of aligned classification systems in order to distinguish between high, medium and low-risk returnees;
Amendment 746 #
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), technologists, 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 876 #
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 bodcompetent authorities in the process of addressing radicalisation;
Amendment 889 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Underlines the need to achieve automatic, fast and full removal of terrorist content and the need to achieve prevention of upload or streaming of terrorist content; requests the Commission to present a legislative proposal obliging companies to remove terrorist content fully within one hour from upload and to introduce clear and transparent reporting obligations on the incidence of terrorist content and removal rates, as well as sanctions for non-compliance;
Amendment 911 #
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, increasing companies’ capabilities to respond to flagged content;
Amendment 939 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on Member States to ensure secure, safe and orderlyjust prison conditions and to create specific procedures for radicalised inmates, in order to prevent radicalisation of others, as well as to ensure targeted monitoring and targeted disengagement measures, and to train prison staff accordingly;
Amendment 975 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Urges Member States to ensure that they havefind the adequate means for ensuring the necessary technical equipment (for example mobile devices allowing the police to check the biometrics of a person during on-the-spot checks), software, security systems and qualified staff to make full use of the existing information systems and cooperation mechanisms;
Amendment 989 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Urges Member States to adopt the approach of ‘'information sharing by default’' when it comes to sharing CT- related information, among national competent authorities thus exchanging such information as a rule, and refraining from such exchange only in specific cases where circumstances require that it be withheld;
Amendment 1032 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Calls on Member States to ensure access to VIS for law enforcement authorities involved in CT operationtheir CT competent authorities and for a simplified procedure for such access;
Amendment 1048 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Calls on the Member States to interconnect their PIUs in order to facilitate the exchange of PNR, data and calls on the Commission to propose technological solutions to make the exchange of PNR data less time-consuming and demanding in terms of human resources by automating the processing of requests from one PIU to another; encourages, therefore, projects such as the ISF project led by the Netherlands to develop PIU.net based upon the established FIU.net; asks the Commission, together with Europol, to support the development of joint targeting rules and risk assessments to be applied by the Member States, in order to enable Europol to searchsearches into the national PNR data with central algorithms;
Amendment 1084 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Calls on the Member States that have not yet done so to create national counter-terrorism ‘'fusion centres’'/coordination units, as well as coordinated databases, in order to centralisein order to facilitate the search, identification and exchange of terrorism-related information and intelligence from all relevant national stakeholders;
Amendment 1101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Recommends that Member States provide guidance or a legal framework in national law as to when it is permissible to exchange information between services, and believes that aligning national standards on this issue iwith other MS' competent authorities and EU agencies as a precondition for an EU-wide solution to the issue of when such information can be used and shared;
Amendment 1109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Calls on the Member States to examinesupport the examination of the possibility of better coordination and cooperation between intelligence and law enforcement services at EU level, e.g. by increasingly sending intelligence experts in addition to law enforcement staff to the meetings of the Counter-Terrorism Joint Liaison Team (CTJLT) at Europol, which could serve as a blueprint for further cooperation between law enforcement and intelligence; calls on the Commission to support the CTJLT, including special funding;
Amendment 1118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
Paragraph 57
57. Calls on Member States and European stakeholders to continue existing operational capabilities and enhance maximum effective cooperation in the fields of counter-terrorism and EU internal security;
Amendment 1125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
58. Calls on Member States to further support the sharing of intelligence through EU INTCEN and calls for Europol to become a veritable hub for law enforcement information exchange and cooperation in the field of counter- terrorism in the EU, if necessary with a stronger mandate;
Amendment 1279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88
Paragraph 88
88. Calls for the mandate of EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia to be extended and its territorial scope enlarged with a view to better responding to changing migration patterns such as ghost landings from Tunisia, and for the fight against terrorism to be specifically includedassessing the possibility to include the fight against terrorism in its mandate;
Amendment 1323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 97
Paragraph 97
97. Calls on the Commission to develop, together with Member States and international partners, ways of better monitoring financial flows and identifying users of virtual currencies, electronic wallets and prepaid cards, crowdfunding platforms and online and mobile payment systems in relevant investigations;
Amendment 1344 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99 a (new)
Paragraph 99 a (new)
99 a. Calls on Member States to ensure that cryptocurrency companies fully apply Anti-Money Laundering regulations when users convert cryptocurrencies to real currency;
Amendment 1347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99 b (new)
Paragraph 99 b (new)
99 b. Stresses the importance of enhancing interaction and exchange of information between investigative authorities and the private sector, namely obliged entities under the EU AML/CFT Directive, to overcome the shortcomings of segregated and incomplete information submitted by suspicious transaction reports; calls on the Commission and Member States to develop dedicated fora for sharing financial information, including on use of virtual currency, including the private sector, under safe channels and EU data protection standards; notes the important role that Europol could play in this regard;
Amendment 1348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99 c (new)
Paragraph 99 c (new)
99 c. Calls on the Commission to examine the EU regulation virtual currency platforms, and namely exchanges between different virtual currencies, since some Member States have already spearheaded national systems to become global hubs for virtual currency platforms; calls on the Commission to form an expert working group to explore next steps in the EU- wide regulation of virtual currencies; calls on the Commission and Member States to act as global advocates for a coherent and coordinated international regulatory framework around virtual currencies;
Amendment 1349 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99 d (new)
Paragraph 99 d (new)
99 d. Calls on Commission and Member States to mandate and support formal, strategic and sustained operational law enforcement training to enhance capacity in Member States for investigating illicit activity involving virtual currencies; stresses that these efforts should ensure a standard level of law enforcement competency across the EU, so that certain Member States do not fall behind; emphasises the importance of conducting the EU-wide risk assessments of virtual currency activities and of coordinating investigative initiatives to use findings from those assessments to develop strategies for regulatory and law enforcement approaches over the short, medium and long-term;
Amendment 1350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99 e (new)
Paragraph 99 e (new)
99 e. Calls on Member States to encourage cryptocurrency companies to use analysis tools to assess potential criminal activity associated with the destination and recipient addresses;
Amendment 1351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99 f (new)
Paragraph 99 f (new)
99 f. Encourages the Commission to carry out an in-depth assessment to evaluate whether features designed to make cryptocurrency users untraceable should be banned;
Amendment 1352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 100
Paragraph 100
100. Calls on the Member States which have not yet done so to establish national CIP programmes addressing the issues identified by the Commission, especially in relation to the potential vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures, in its 2006 communication on a European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection which should be revised and updated;
Amendment 1361 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 106
Paragraph 106
106. Calls for Directive 2008/114 to be revised, in order to: provide similar rules and procedures for ‘operators of essential services’ as in the NIS Directive; ensure that designation of ECIs be done on the basis of an analysis of the systems supporting vital and cross-border services, rather than a sector-by-sector approach, taking due account of the importance of cybersecurity; allow the Commission to designate assets of pan-European services as ECIs; take due account of existing interdependencies; create an obligation to report incidents, conduct stress tests, provide appropriate training at the designated contact points and establish quality requirements as regards business and operational continuity plans in the case of an incident or attack;
Amendment 1364 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 107
Paragraph 107
107. Recommends that the private sector be involved when devising programmes for the protection of critical infrastructure and soft targets, and highlights the need to develop public-private dialogues to this effect and to develop national and local resilience;
Amendment 1445 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 126
Paragraph 126
126. Calls on the Commission to establish an EU Coordination Centre for victims of terrorism (CCVT), which should provide timely and adequate crisis support in cases of mass attacks in one or several Member States; considers that the role of the CCVT would be to ensure the provision of expertise at EU level by promoting exchange of knowledge and best practices; stresses however the need to extend support and protection measures to indirect victims, like victim’s relatives, eyewitnesses and first responders;
Amendment 1472 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 132
Paragraph 132
132. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the assistance provided to victims of terrorism also encompasses measures such as first aid, psychological support, protection from secondary victimisation, effective access to justice, cash advances to help cover immediate expenses, certified childcare and home support, tax relief schemes or other forms of social benefits and help with transport;
Amendment 1517 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 139
Paragraph 139
139. Calls on the Member States to ensure that the necessary data protection safeguards are in place, including appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the security and confidentiality of personal data; urges the Member States to provide clear rules as to who can access and who consults which data in the systems, to maintain records of consultation and disclosure, and to provide for rights of access, rectification, erasure and restriction, as well as rights to compensation and judicial redress;
Amendment 1519 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 139 a (new)
Paragraph 139 a (new)
139 a. Encourages the Commission to regularly submit reports to the European Parliament and to the Council, assessing the added value of the anti-terrorism legislation; asks that such reports shall also focus on fundamental rights and freedoms, including on non- discrimination, on the rule of law, and on the level of protection and assistance provided to victims of terrorism;