Activities of Saskia BRICMONT related to 2023/2144(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) for the financial year 2022
Amendments (5)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes that appropriated corrective actions were taken to address most of the Court’s previous years observations; regrets that one observation from the previous years is still ongoing;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that CEPOL directly reaches only a small fraction of its target population through its training activities due to relatively small size and its annual budget; encourages the Commission to conduct an evaluation study of the feasibility of merging the CEPOL with other agencies within the same remit;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fact that in 2022, CEPOL carried out 418 training activities, in which 43838 law enforcement officers participated, and successfully implemented 296 exchanges; further appreciates the Strategy Paper by the Expert Group on Fundamental Rights aiming at including the fundamental aspects in all training activities; recalls that the protection of fundamental rights should be a central pillar in CEPOL's training activities; notes with satisfaction that an ad hoc training was organised on the protection of investigative journalists in 2022; welcomes the specific training actions on topics of hate crime, spread knowledge on effective victims’ support solutions;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that the law enforcement training at EU level needs to reflect the EU priorities in line with Member States' training needs and to support EU’s response to serious and organised crime and other threats to internal security; welcomes the training activities in the area of counter-terrorism targeted against transnational left and right wing extremism and radicalisation; calls for more trainings on cybercrime, cyber forensics, artificial intelligence, data protection, fundamental rights and anti- racism; welcomes the training activities in the area of counter-terrorism targeted against transnational left and right wing extremism and radicalisation;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the strongNotes the cooperation with third countries, partner EU agencies, bodies and networks, in particular with Europol, Eurojust, Frontex, EJTN, European Commission, EMCDDA, EUIPO, FRA, EASO, and International organisation such as Interpol; calls on CEPOL to ensure, in all its activities, full transparency and full respect with fundamental rights and international law, notably its activities with third countries, that includes cooperation with countries characterized by long-term political instability such as Libya;