Activities of Kristina WINBERG related to 2018/0250(COD)
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REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Internal Security Fund PDF (344 KB) DOC (160 KB)
Amendments (21)
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) In the Rome Declaration signed on 25 SeptemberMarch 2017, leaders of 27 Member States affirmed their determination to a safe and secure Europe and to build a Union where all citizens feel safe and can move freely, where the external borders are secured, with an efficient, responsible and sustainable migration policy, respecting international norms, as well as a Europe determined to fight terrorism and organised crime.
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The Union’s objective of ensuring a high level of security within an area of freedom, security and justice pursuant to Article 67(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) should be achieved, among others, through measures to prevent andillegal migration facilitated by organised criminal activity, combat crime as well as through measures for coordination and cooperation between law enforcement authorities and other national authorities of Member States, including with relevant Union agencies and other relevant Union bodies, and with relevant third countries and international organisations.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) To achieve this objective, actions should be taken at Union level to protect people and goods from increasingly transnational threats and to support the work carried out by Member States’ competent authorities. TIllegal migration- facilitated by organised criminal activity, terrorism, serious and organised crime, itinerant crime, drug trafficking, corruption, cybercrime, trafficking in human beings and arms, among others, continue to challenge the internal security of the Union.
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) To preserve the Schengen acquis and to strengthen its functioning, Member States have, since 6 April 2017, been obliged to carry out systematic checks against relevant databases on EU citizens who are crossing the EU’s external borders. Furthermore, the Commission issued a Recommendation to Member States to make better use of police checks and cross-border cooperation. Solidarity among Member States, clarity about the division of tasks, respect for fundamental rights and freedoms and the rule of law, and a strong attention to the global perspective and the necessary coherence with the external dimension of security should bduty towards ensuring the maximum security for EU citizens that is the key principles guiding the Union and Member States’ acinstitutions towards the development of an effective and genuine security unionensuring a safe and secure Europe.
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Pursuant to Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), the Fund should support activities which ensure the protection of children against violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect. The Fund should also support safeguards and assistance for child witnesses and victims, in particular those who are unaccompanied or otherwise in need of guardianship as well as the facilitation of a prompt and dignified reunification with family, relatives or suitable authorities in the country of origin.
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) In line with the shared priorities identified at Union level to ensure a high level of security in the Union, the Fund will support actions aimed at addressing the main security threats and in particular tackling terrorism and radicalisation, illegal migration facilitated by organised criminal activity, serious and organised crime and cybercrime and assisting and protecting victims of crime. The Fund will ensure that the Union and its Member States are well equipped also to address evolving and emerging threats with a view to implementing a genuine security union. This should be pursued through financial assistance to support better information exchange, increase operational cooperation and improve national and collective capabilities.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Within the comprehensive framework of the Fund, the financial assistance provided through the Fund should in particular support police and judicial cooperation and prevention in the fields of serious and organised crime, illicit arms trafficking, illegal migration facilitated by organised criminal activity, corruption, money laundering, drug trafficking, environmental crime, exchange of and access to information, terrorism, trafficking in human beings, exploitation of illegal immigration, child sexual exploitation, distribution of child abuse images and child pornography, and cybercrime. The Fund should also support the protection of people, public spaces and critical infrastructure against security- related incidents and the effective management of security-related risks and crises, including through the development of common policies (strategies, policy cycles, programmes and action plans), legislation and practical cooperation.
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Within the comprehensive framework of the Union’s anti-drugs strategy, which advocates a balanced approach based on a simultaneous reduction in supply and demand, the financial assistance provided under this Fund should support all actions aimed at preventing and combating trafficking in drugs (supply and demand reduction), and in particular measures targeting the production, manufacture, extraction, sale, transport, importation and exportation of illegal drugs, including possession and purchase as well as the establishment of individuals within the Union with a view to engaging in drug trafficking activities. The Fund should in particular cover the prevention aspects of the drugs policy. To bring further synergies and clarity in the drugs-related area, these elements of drugs- related objectives — which in 2014-2020 were covered by the Justice programme — should be incorporated into the Fund.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) Synergies, consistency and efficiency should be sought with other EU funds and overlap between the actions shouldall be avoided.
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) Measures in and in relation to third countries supported through the Fund should be implemented in full synergy and coherence with and should complement other actions outside the Union supported through the Union’s external financing instruments. In particular, in implementing such actions, full coherence should be sought with the principles and general objectives of the Union’s external action and foreign policy related to the country or region in question. In relation to the external dimension, the Fund should enhance cooperation with third countries in areas of interest to the Union’s internal security, such as countering terrorism, illegal migration facilitated by organised criminal activity and radicalisation, cooperation with third country law enforcement authorities in the fight against terrorism (including detachments and joint investigation teams), serious and organised crime and corruption, trafficking in human beings and migrant smuggling of illegal migrants.
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. The policy objective of the Fund shall be to contribute to ensuring a high level of security in the Union, in particular by tackling terrorism and radicalisation, illegal migration facilitated by organised criminal activity, serious and organised crime and cybercrime and by assisting and protecting victims of crime.
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall ensure that the Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL), the European Border and Cost Guard Agency (EBCGA), and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) are associated to the development of the programmes at an early stage, as regards the areas of their competence. Specifically, Member States shall consult Europol on the design of their actions in particular when including EU policy cycle or EMPACT actions or actions coordinated by the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) in their programmes. Prior to including training in their programmes, Member States shall coordinate with CEPOL in order to avoid overlaps.
Amendment 234 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3
Article 12 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission may associate the Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL), the European Border and Cost Guard Agency (EBCGA) and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) where appropriate in the monitoring and evaluation tasks as specified in Section 5 in particular in view of ensuring that the actions implemented with the support of the Fund are compliant with the relevant Union acquis and agreed Union priorities.
Amendment 242 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 5 – point b
Article 12 – paragraph 5 – point b
(b) recommendations with financial implications made in the framework of Regulation (EU) No 1053/2013 on the Schengen evaluation and monitoring mechanism in the area of police cooperation as well as findings, conclusions and subsequent recommendations provided after a vulnerability and risk assessment by the European Border and Cost Guard Agency (EBCGA);
Amendment 250 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 4
Article 15 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall justify in the programme and in the annual performance reports, as referred to in Article 26, the use of operating support to achieve the objectives of this Regulation. Before the approval of the programme, the Commission shall assess the baseline situation in the Member States which have indicated their intention to request operating support, taking into account the information provided by those Member States as well as recommendations from quality control and evaluation mechanisms such as: the Schengen evaluation mechanism, the vulnerability and risk assessment by the European Border and Cost Guard Agency (EBCGA) and other quality control and evaluation mechanisms as applicable.
Amendment 275 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 2
Article 25 – paragraph 2
2. The mid-term and the retrospective evaluation shall be carried out in a timely manner to feed into the decision-making process in accordance with the timeline set out Article 40 of Regulation (EU) No [CPR]. The evaluation shall aspire to full public transparency in order to inform the public of the use of the funds, apart from any security related details deemed due to operational requirements as well as respect for the safety and/or privacy of individual(s) not fit for wider dissemination.
Amendment 313 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – indent 1
Annex IV – indent 1
– Projects whichand/or initiatives that have an established record of more than ten years of successful interventions, with the aim to prevent and counter radicalisation.
Amendment 314 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – indent 1 a (new)
Annex IV – indent 1 a (new)
– Projects that seek to combat and prevent illegal migration facilitated by organised criminal activity
Amendment 329 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex VI – table 1 – Codes for the Intervention Field Dimension – row 14
Annex VI – table 1 – Codes for the Intervention Field Dimension – row 14
14 OC – Migrant- Smuggling of illegal-migrants
Amendment 343 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex VIII – part 3 – point 3 – paragraph 1
Annex VIII – part 3 – point 3 – paragraph 1
Number of victims of crime assisted with the support of the Fund, broken down by type of crime (trafficking in human beings, illegal migrant smuggling, terrorism, serious and organised crime, cybercrime, child sexual exploitation).
Amendment 346 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex VIII – part 3 – point 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
Annex VIII – part 3 – point 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) number of study visits, trainings, workshops and counselling completed in Member States in close coordination with national Authorities broken down by beneficiaries (law enforcement authorities, other).