14 Amendments of Kristina WINBERG related to 2018/2271(INL)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
– having regard to Article 5 TEU, and Protocol No 2 on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas despite numerous announcements and requests for safe and legal pathways offering access to European territory for persons seeking international protection there is currently no harmonisation at Union level of protected entry procedures (PEPs) and no legal framework at Union level for humanitarian visas, i.e. visas issued for the purpose of reaching the territory of the Member States in order to seekhumanitarian visas are one of the existing tools that sovereign Member States may decide to use in order to ensure that people in need can legally access international protection; in Europe.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the number of persons admitted on the basis of national entry procedures for humanitarian protection or through resettlement remain low in comparison to the global needs, with significant disparities between Member States; whereas the scope of national entry procedures for humanitarian protection and resettlement is narrowly defined and, in case of resettlement, it is strictly connected to the criteria of vulnerability and registrationseveral Member States currently have or have previously had national schemes for issuing humanitarian visas to guarantee national protected entry of people in need; whereas the scope of resettlement only includes persons who have already been recognised as a refugee with Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugeess and who fulfil further vulnerability or geographical criteria;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas - as a result - an estimated 90% of those granted international protection have reached the Union through irregular means, which laccording the UN Migration Agency (IOM), 58,158 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea through 1 August 2018; whereads to them being stigmatised befohat total compares they even arrive at the external borders of the Member Stateso 113,283 at this time last year, and over 261,228 at this time in 2016;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the human cost of these policies has been put at 30 000 deaths at least at the Union's borders since 2000; whereas a Union legal framework is urgently needed as one meansin order to address the intolerable death toll in the Mediterranean, and on the migration routes to the Union, to truly combat human smuggling, exposure to trafficking in human beings, to labour exploitation and violence, to manage the orderly arrival, dignified reception and fair processing of asylum claims and to optimise Member States’ and Union budget for asylum, procedures, border control and search and rescue activities as well as to achieve coherent practito truly combat human trafficking, to labour exploitation and violence, the EU should act responsibly and to deter asylum seekers from arriving in its territory, risking their lives at sea. Such measures may include off-shore proces sin the Ung, mandatory detention, asylum acquind the use of turn backs;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas Parliament has trifailed to include provisions in this vein in Regulation (EC) No 810/2009; and the second attempt to have it adopted also failed on 15th November 2018 (2017/2270(INL));
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas both Council and the Commission have rejected these amendments, on the ground, among others, that such provisiona Union legal framework establish Humanitarian Visas should not be included in the Regulation (EC) No 810/2009, given its scope covering short- stay visas only;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas the update of the EU visa policy, still under negotiation, should allow for improved security and increase the available means to respond to migration challenges, including new tools to return those who do not have a right to stay in the EU territory and to efficiently respond to those countries who are not willing to take their own nationals back;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
Recital K b (new)
Kb. whereas an estimated 10% of those applying for international protection are granted it; and with poor return rates in most Member States this equates to high rates of absconding from those refused;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Requestsjects that the Commission to submit, by 31 March 2019, on the basis of point (a) of Article 77(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), a proposal for a Regulation on establishing a European Humanitarian Visa, following the recommendations set out in the Annex hereto;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I
Annex I