5 Amendments of Elmar BROK related to 2011/2109(INI)
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Urges parties and non-parties to the Rome Statute to refrain from exercising political pressure on the Court in order to preserve and guarantee its impartiality and to allow for justice based on law, not political consideration, to take place;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the EU and its Member States to comply with all requests by the Court to provide assistance and cooperation in a timely manner to ensure, inter alia, the execution of pending arrest warrants and the provision of information, including requests aimed at helping to identify, freeze and seize the financial assets of suspects;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls additionally on all the EU Member States to sign framework agreements with the ICC in order to facilitate adequate and timely cooperation with the Court (as regards replying to information requests, asset tracking, freezing and seizing requests and executing arrest warrants, as well as in the areas of witness protection, relocation and the enforcement of sentences) and fully integrate the Rome Statute into national legislationprovide full support and cooperation with the ICC on, inter alia, matters of investigation, collecting evidence, finding, protecting and re- allocating witnesses, arresting, extraditing, holding in custody and hosting indicted persons when released on bail, imprisoning sentenced persons; calls on Member States to mutually cooperate through their police, judicial and other relevant mechanisms to ensure adequate support for the ICC;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Encourages EU Member States to amend Article 83 of the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union to include the crimes under the jurisdiction of the ICC to the list of crimes for which the EU has competences; more specifically, urges EU Member States to transfer competences to the EU in the area of identification and confiscation of assets of indicted by the ICC persons, notwithstanding the fact that judicial proceedings are initiated by the ICC; calls on EU Member States to cooperate in exchanging relevant information through the existing Asset Recovery Offices as well as through the Camden Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network (CARIN);
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Urges the European Union and its Member States to ensure the existence of training programmes for, but not limited to, police investigators, prosecutors, judges, army officials that focus, first, on the provisions of the Rome Statute and the relevant international law and, second, on the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of violations of these principles;