Activities of Margarida MARQUES related to 2022/0066(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council combating violence against women and domestic violence
Amendments (6)
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 47
Recital 47
(47) Specialist support should offer victims support tailored to their specific needs, and irrespective of any official complaint. Such services could be provided in addition to, or as an integrated part of, general victim support services, which may call on existing entities providing specialist support. Specialist support may be provided by national authorities, victims’ support organisations, or other non- governmental organisations. They should be granted sufficient human and financial resources and, where the services are provided by non-governmental organisations, Member States should ensure that they receive appropriate funand the Union, for instance through the Rights and Values programme and its DAPHNE strand, should ensure that they receive appropriate funds. Member States should ensure that all victims belonging to vulnerable groups or communities receive tailor-made support based on their needs, with special attention to linguistic needs and potential past or present discrimination experiences of certain communities. Support should be provided as offline and online services according to specific needs.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 47 a (new)
Recital 47 a (new)
(47 a) The Union budget should provide complementary funding to ensure a high level of protection for victims of violence, including through sufficient resources in dedicated funding programs, as for instance through the Rights and Values programme and its DAPHNE strand, and through the promotion of innovative solutions to improve the quality and accessibility of the needed services; the relevant program(s) under the next Multiannual Financial Framework should contain sufficient financial and human resources to ensure sufficient funding for a significant Union contribution to the proper implementation, in particular of preventive and victim support measures; in the context of the Cohesion policy programmes, national programming should pay particular attention to projects contributing to the objectives of the Directive by complementing Member States investments for that purpose.
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 63
Recital 63
(63) In order to ensure that victims of the offences of cyber violence contained in this Directive can effectively realise their rights to have illegal material relating to such offences removed, Member States should encourage the cooperation between providers of intermediary services as well as between providers of intermediary services, authorities and civil society organisations, such as through the establishment of trusted flaggers pursuant to Article 22 of the Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council. To ensure that such material is detected early on and tackled effectively and that victims of those offences are adequately assisted and supported, Member States should also facilitate the establishment or use of existing self-regulatory measures of a voluntary nature, such as codes of conduct, including on the detection of systematic risks in relation to such cyber violence and the training of the providers’ employees, including psychological support, concerned by preventing such violence and assisting victims. Any support provided by the European Commission to the Member States in these regards should come along with a reinforcement of its human resources.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 64
Recital 64
(64) Policies to adequately tackle violence against women and domestic violence can only be formulated on the basis of comprehensive and comparable disaggregated data. In order to effectively monitor developments in the Member States and fill the gaps of comparable data, Member States should regularly conduct surveys using the harmonised methodology of the Commission (Eurostat) to gather data and transmit these data to the Commission (Eurostat) and the European Institute of Gender Equality. For the purpose of the analysis of the aggregated data, both Eurostat and EIGE should be reinforced adequately.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 64 a (new)
Recital 64 a (new)
(64 a) The relevant agencies, in particular the European Institute for Gender Equality, should be provided with the necessary human and financial resources to fulfil the objectives, tasks and responsibilities assigned to it under this directive financed by a contribution from the general budget of the Union, with the necessary appropriations drawn exclusively from unallocated margins under the relevant heading of the Multiannual Financial Framework and/or through the mobilisation of the relevant special instruments and not depriving the Right and Values programme of any appropriations agreed for policy purpose under the actual Multiannual Financial Framework.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 27 – paragraph 2
Article 27 – paragraph 2
2. Specialist support referred to in paragraph 1 shall be offered in-person and shall be easily accessible, including to all victims including victims belonging to linguistic minorities and communities, and include online or through other adequate means, such as information and communication technologies, tailored to the needs of victims of violence against women and domestic violence. The support shall be provided also in languages of linguistic minorities, regions and communities within the different Member States.