Activities of Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

~~14. Recommends that the title and mandate of the Special Envoy visibly include the promotion of interreligious dialogue and interfaith cooperation;~~deleted

2018/09/13
Committee: AFET

2018/2149(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

~~3. Welcomes the long overdue ratification of the August 2015 Border Demarcation Agreement with Montenegro in March 2018; underlines the significance of this step towards visa liberalisat~~(Does not affect the English version;.)

2018/09/10
Committee: AFET

2018/2149(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls for the enforcement of the human rights framework to be prioritised, and backed by sufficient coordination and funding, especially in the field of gender equality, child and labour protection, social exclusion and discrimination against persons with disabilities and minorities, including LGBTI people; ~~underlines the need to reinforce the Agency for Gender Equality and the National Coordinator for the Protection from Domestic Violence and to strengthen prevention;~~

2018/09/10
Committee: AFET

2018/2149(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls for the enforcement of the human rights framework to be prioritised, and backed by sufficient coordination and funding, especially in the field of ~~gender equality, child and labour protection, social exclus~~freedom of expression, respect for the rights of national and religious minorities, child protection and discrimination against persons with disabilities and other minorities~~, including LGBTI people~~; underlines the need to reinforce the Agency for Gender Equality and the National Coordinator for the Protection from Domestic Violence and to strengthen prevention;

2018/09/10
Committee: AFET

2018/2149(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Calls on the Kosovo authorities to hold a referendum in all municipalities with a substantial Serbian minority on the question of their nationality as a prerequisite for achieving a lasting settlement with Serbia;

2018/09/10
Committee: AFET

2018/2149(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Calls once again for the prompt and unimpeded opening of the Mitrovica bridge, which constitutes an important step towards the reunification of the city; calls for the full implementation of the freedom of movement agreement;deleted

2018/09/10
Committee: AFET

2018/2149(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Calls for a comprehensive reform of the health sector, including the implementation of universal health insurance, in order to ensure universal access to healthcare; underlines the need for adequate funding of the public health system;deleted

2018/09/10
Committee: AFET

2018/2149(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls on the Commission to develop a ~~regional~~full labour market liberalisation strategy to address the persistent youth unemployment and brain drain by tackling the skills mismatch between the education system and the labour market, improving the quality of teaching, and ensuring adequate funding for active labour market measures and vocational training schemes, along with adequate childcare and pre-school education facilities;

2018/09/10
Committee: AFET

2018/2149(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Notes the need to move away from the use of lignite for unsustainable energy generation and stresses the urgency of decommissioning Kosovo A Power Station and of ensuring additional sustainable generation and import capacity; notes partial progress on the Third Energy Package and stresses the need to ensure the independence of the Kosovar energy regulator; calls for stronger efforts in energy efficiency and energy saving, particularly in the construction sector;deleted

2018/09/10
Committee: AFET

2018/2147(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Welcomes the additional steps taken to reinforce the protection of human rights, minority rights and anti- discrimination policies; ~~insists that measures be taken to further improve the education, employment rates and living conditions for Roma, Egyptians and other ethnic minorities;~~

2018/09/03
Committee: AFET

2018/2147(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Commends the climate of tolerance and cooperation among the country’s religious communities; ~~calls on the Albanian authorities to effectively combat hate speech and the exclusion and discrimination of minorities, including LGBTI persons;~~

2018/09/03
Committee: AFET

2018/2147(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Reiterates the critical importance of professional and independent private and public service media; notes the partial progress made in increasing the independence of the country’s audio-visual media authority and public broadcaster; calls for measures to improve the financial transparency of state advertising in the media; calls as well for measures to strengthen the protection of the labour and social rights of journalists; welcomes the setting-up of the Albanian Media Council, and underlines its role in establishing ethical and professional standards for the media;

2018/09/03
Committee: AFET

2018/2147(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. ~~Fears possible negative impacts on employment and social policy-making following~~Welcomes the dismantling of Albania’s Labour Ministry as a result of governmental restructuring; encourages the Albanian authorities to ~~foster cooperation with~~restrict the rights of trade unions; calls on them to take effective measures to address the high unemployment rate, especially among young people, and to further improve the quality of education;

2018/09/03
Committee: AFET

2018/2147(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. ~~Expresses concern over economic activity that has led to environmental damage in protected area~~Approves the use of renewable energy sources, such as the hydropower plants along the Vjosa river; urges the authorities to step up environmental impact assessments and public consultations on such projects;

2018/09/03
Committee: AFET

2018/2146(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Underlines that the legislative and institutional framework for upholding human rights is in place; stresses that consistent and efficient implementation across the whole country is needed; notes that further sustained efforts are necessary to improve the situation of persons belonging to vulnerable groups, including children, persons with disabilities, persons with HIV/AIDS, and LGBTI persons; calls on Serbia to actively pursue investigations, prosecutions and convictions of hate- motivated crimes;

2018/09/05
Committee: AFET

2018/2146(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Welcomes the adoption of an action plan for the realisation of the rights of national ~~minorities, and the adoption of a decree establishing a fund for national~~ minorities; calls for the full implementation of the action plan and for improved coordination and inclusion of stakeholders; notes that the fund for national minorities is functioning and that its funding has been increased; reiterates its call on Serbia to ensure consistent implementation of legislation on the protection of minorities, including in relation to education, the use of languages, representation in public administration and access to media and religious services in minority languages;

2018/09/05
Committee: AFET

2018/2146(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Welcomes the adoption of the new Roma social inclusion strategy for the period 2016-2025 along with an action plan covering education, health, housing and employment; calls for full implementation of the new strategy for Roma inclusion and the action plan;deleted

2018/09/05
Committee: AFET

2018/2146(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Welcomes Serbia’s continued engagement in the normalisation process with Kosovo, and its commitment to the implementation of the agreements reached in the EU- facilitated dialogue; welcomes that President Vučić has launched an internal dialogue on Kosovo; reiterates its call to move forward with the full implementation, in good faith and in a timely manner, of all the agreements already reached ~~including the ones on energy~~ and to determinedly continue the normalisation process; highlights the importance of creating an association / community of Serb majority municipalities; stresses that the work on a new phase of the dialogue with a view to a comprehensive normalisation of relations between Serbia and Kosovo, to be defined in a legally binding agreement, needs to be accelerated; reiterates its call on the EEAS to carry out an evaluation of the performance of the sides in fulfilling their obligations;

2018/09/05
Committee: AFET

2018/2144(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Urges improvement in the enforcement and monitoring mechanisms for human rights protection, including by tackling violence ~~against women and children~~;

2018/09/03
Committee: AFET

2018/2144(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls on the Montenegrin authorities to continue to improve the climate of societal inclusion and tolerance and to take effective measures against hate speech, social exclusion and the discrimination of minorities, including LGBTI people;deleted

2018/09/03
Committee: AFET

2018/2099(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Considers that the capabilities for the Union`s security and defence could be improved by making better use of the existing frameworks of defence and military cooperation such as the European multinational high readiness corps HQs and the EU battlegroups; believes that this will contribute to the continuous transformation of national armed forces, towards the goal of being more interoperable, more sustainable, more flexible and more deployable; invites the Council to investigate, for example, the feasibility of potentially setting-up a permanent Spearhead Europe Force, which could be drawing on the European multinational high readiness corps HQ in Strasbourg, Szczecin and Münster; considers that the EU battle groups should grow into full-scale brigades and should be assigned to the corps HQ on a permanent basis;

2018/10/16
Committee: AFET

2018/2099(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Welcomes the establishment of the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP), aiming at supporting the competitiveness and innovation capacity of the EU defence industry with EUR 500 million until 2020;deleted

2018/10/16
Committee: AFET

2018/2099(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Believes that EDIDP will help to foster the competitiveness, efficiency and innovation capacity of the EU's defence industry by eligible actions involving inter alia designing, prototyping, testing, qualification and certification of defence productsTakes the view that the Member States should remain fully autonomous in developing their own defence industry, and that all attempts at EU-level unification in this area could lead to as well as the development of technologies within a consortium including SMEs and middle capitalisation companies (mid-caps), research centres and universities, and collaboration between Member States, which contributes toakening of competitiveness and innovativeness, and also to bureaucratisation and corruption, which will in turn weaken the EU´'s ~~strategic autonomy~~defence potential as a whole;

2018/10/16
Committee: AFET

2018/2099(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the proposal for a regulation establishing a European Defence Fund and the substantial funding proposed by the European Commission for the next Multiannual Financial Framework; notes that the outcomes of the EDIDP discussions were taken duly into consideration and expresses hope that the proposal can be agreed as soon as possible;deleted

2018/10/16
Committee: AFET

2018/2099(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Stresses that EU´s strategic security and defence objectives can ~~only~~ be achieved ~~through the closest coordination of the needs and long-term capability building requirements of both the armed forces and defence indust~~most quickly if the Member States' full autonomy in the area of armaments is preserved, so as to maintain balance between them and promote technological and operational diversification; stresses that the EU is not a military pact and that the Member States should retain the full capacity to carry out independent military activities and defend their territories ofand the ~~Member States; notes~~EU's outer borders; notes at the same time, however, that both the Capability Development Plan (CDP) and the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD) can make important contributions to the achievement of this goal;

2018/10/16
Committee: AFET

2018/2099(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Emphasises again that the EDA should be the implementing agency for Union actions under the European Capabilities and Armaments policy, where foreseen by the Lisbon Treaty; stresses that the administrative and operational expenditure of the EDA should be funded from the Union budget; welcomes the minor adjustments of EDA's budget that have taken place but emphasises that EDA's increased responsibilities in the context of, among other things, PESCO and CARD require adequate funding;

2018/10/16
Committee: AFET

2018/2099(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30a. Stresses that the EU is not trying to become a military pact to rival NATO, and that the Member States' commitments to NATO must always take precedence over military cooperation within the EU;

2018/10/16
Committee: AFET

2018/2040(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j

(j) to call on all Member States to continue to support and implement the eight UN Security Council resolutions1 which make up the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, and guide work to promote gender equality and strengthen women’s participation, protection and rights across the conflict cycle, from conflict prevention through post-conflict reconstruction; __________________ 11325 (2000), 1820 (2009); 1888 (2009); 1889 (2010); 1960 (2011); 2106 (2013); 2122 (2013) and 2242 (2015).deleted

2018/05/02
Committee: AFET

2018/2040(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l

(l) to support and strengthen international efforts through the UN to ensure gender analysis as well as gender and human rights mainstreaming in all UN activities; to develop indicators and to implement monitoring tools to measure progress on the participation of women in peace and security building and to ensure accountability;deleted

2018/05/02
Committee: AFET

2018/2040(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n

(n) to strengthen the operational side of EU and UN priorities for conflict prevention, including by ensuring the availability of experienced mediators and mediation advisers~~, including women envoys and senior officials~~;

2018/05/02
Committee: AFET

2018/2040(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u

~~(u) to maintain a strong commitment to promoting an end to the death penalty worldwide;~~deleted

2018/05/02
Committee: AFET

2018/2040(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point y

~~y) to continue and enhance the support, including financial support, provided to the UNHCR in implementing its international mandate to protect refugees;~~deleted

2018/05/02
Committee: AFET

2018/0227(COD)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14

(14) The Programme's actions should be used to address ~~market failures or~~ sub- optimal investment situations, in a proportionate manner, without duplicating or crowding out private financing and have a clear European added value.

2018/09/13
Committee: ITRE

2018/0110(COD)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5

5. Where a domain name is considered by a court of a Member State to be defamatory, racist or contrary to public policy, it shall be blocked by the Registry upon notification of a court decision and shall be revoked upon notification of a final court decision. The Registry shall block from future registration those names which have been subject to such a court order as long as such order remains valid.deleted

2018/09/27
Committee: ITRE

2018/0110(COD)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point i

~~(i) promote the objectives of the Union in the field of internet governance;~~deleted

2018/09/27
Committee: ITRE

2018/0110(COD)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point e

~~(e) treatment of intellectual property rights;~~deleted

2018/09/27
Committee: ITRE

2018/0058(COD)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1

1. A pre-condition for granting the Union’s macro-financial assistance shall be that Ukraine respects effective democratic mechanisms – including a multi-party parliamentary system – and the rule of law, and guarantees respect for human rights and rights of national minorities.

2018/04/25
Committee: AFET

2017/2283(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ, Marek JUREK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

~~20. Calls for the ratification of the Istanbul Convention on violence against women;~~deleted

2018/09/10
Committee: AFET

2017/2282(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Georgian authorities to take further steps to uphold fundamental freedoms, notably for vulnerable groups, ~~by fighting hate speech and discrimination, including on the labour market through an amended Labour Code, against LGBTQI people, disabled people~~unborn children, persons with a disability and minorities;

2018/09/12
Committee: AFET

2017/2282(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the Georgian authorities to take further steps to protect women against all forms of violence and sexual harassment ~~and to increase their participation in politics and the labour market~~;

2018/09/12
Committee: AFET

2017/2282(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Welcomes the emphasis put on job creation as well as labour rights notably through the adoption of the law on occupational safety; stresses the need to put in place a fully-fledged labour inspection system to improve safety at work and reduce undeclared work; takes note of the Georgian authorities’ ambition to do so by September 2019; is concerned by child labour and insufficient freedom of association for trade unions; recalls that occupational safety according to the requirements of the Association Agreement is of critical importancend calls for the liberalisation of labour law so that the barriers causing unemployment can be removed;

2018/09/12
Committee: AFET

2017/2282(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Recalls that environmental governance is a key feature of the Association Agreement requirements; welcomes the entry into force of a new Environmental Impact Assessment Code in line with EU legislation as well as the adoption of the roadmap for the Climate Action Plan; calls for further alignment of national environmental policies with EU targets to fight climate change~~, in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement and, in particular, the finalisation and adoption the Low Emission Development Strategy~~;

2018/09/12
Committee: AFET

2017/2281(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Reiterates its position that any decision on future MFA disbursement should only take place after the planned parliamentary elections and on condition that they are conducted in line with internationally recognised standards and assessed by specialised international bodies, and that the payment of all budget support programmes should remain on hold until meaningful progress in democratic standards takes place; calls, in the meantime, on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) ~~to continue reallocating funds to support civil society in Moldova, in particular to the free and independent media, as well as the private sector and local authorities, and~~ to coordinate efforts with other organisations, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to ensure greater coherence in terms of financial assistance conditionality;

2018/09/11
Committee: AFET

2017/2281(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. ~~Welcomes~~Notes with concern the adoption of a new National Gender Equality Strategy in 2017, and calls on the authorities to ~~ensure its full implementation~~abandon it;

2018/09/11
Committee: AFET

2017/2281(INI)

Dobromir SOŚNIERZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the authorities to significantly step up efforts to uphold human rights and fundamental freedoms, notably for vulnerable groups, ~~by fighting hate speech and discrimination against LGBTQI people,~~ persons with disabilities, unborn children and minorities such as the Roma population;

2018/09/11
Committee: AFET