40 Amendments of Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN related to 2020/2029(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12
Citation 12
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
Citation 18 a (new)
- Having regard to Council Directive 2002/90/EC defining the facilitation of unauthorised entry, transit and residence and Council Framework Decision 2002/946/JHA on the strengthening of the penal framework to prevent the facilitation of unauthorised entry, transit and residence.
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 40 #
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
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Citation 35
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Commends the good work done by the EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator (EU ATC) in coordinating the EU’s response to THB and developing knowledge and findings on the various aspects of THB, including research into the gender dimension and the particular vulnerability of children;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights that the early identification of victims remains one of the main challenges to implementation, and is one of the most crucial in terms of enabling victims to exercise their rights; calls on the Member States to give more actors responsibility for identifying victims of THB at all stages of the process, including civil society representatives, immigration and asylum officials, labour inspectors and social workers or healthcare staff;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on all Member States to effectively guarantee the rights of victims and to support them with a gender- sensitive approach while ensuring complementarity with the Victims’ Rights Directive; notes that the Anti-Trafficking Directive prohibits the criminalisation of victims of THB;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights that while the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet measurable, it is nevertheless clear that the crisis disproportionately affects the most vulnerable victims of THB, especially women and children;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
THB as a gendered crime and addressing trafficking for sexual exploitation
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Highlights that sexual exploitation remains the most prevalent form of trafficking in the EU since 2008, as 60% of victims are trafficked for sexual exploitation; notes that more than 90% of these victims are women and girls, and that more than 70% of traffickers are male;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to prioritise the prevention of the crime of trafficking for sexual exploitation, including through adopting measures and programmes to discourage and reduce demand, and calls on the Member States to include the use of the services of victims of trafficking as a criminal offence in their national statutes, as recommended by Article 8 of the Anti-Trafficking Directive and reiterated by the Commission in 201819; _________________ 19Second progress report on the implementation of the Directive, COM(2018)0777, p. 6.;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Highlights the importance of gender-sensitive training programmes for officials attending victims to enhance the early identification of those who are victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation and encourages Member States to adopt measures to support victims, such as exit programmes, social and professional reintegration or sexual health services;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to step up their efforts to combat human trafficking and migrant smuggling and to effectively implement the "Facilitators Package" (Council Directive 2002/90/EC and Council Framework Decision 2002/946) to combat the human smugglers' business model, preventing children, girls, and other vulnerable groups from sexual exploitation and abuse.
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to pay particular attention to the fact that some actions, such as offering financial aid to victims of trafficking, may be used as an incentive by the mafias in order to attract their victims with the unintentional effect of encouraging human trafficking.
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the very low number of registered THB victims in international protection procedures; calls on the Member States to strengthen the provision of information to arriving individuals, including with the help of translation and interpretation, on their rights and the applicable procedures under EU legislation, including on the possibilities for obtaining support through lawyers and cultural mediators;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Points out that in some Member States, applicants for international protection who are identified as victims of THB need to change procedures and claim a residence permit under Directive 2004/81/EC23; calls on the Member States to put in place a holistic and multidisciplinary approach ensuring that the anti-trafficking and the asylum procedures are interconnected and complement each other; _________________ 23European implementation assessment – ‘Implementation of Directive 2011/36/EU: Migration and gender issues’, Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research, Ex-Post Evaluation Unit, 15 September 2020, p. 49.
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Member States to focus on identifying child victims and helping them to avail themselves of their rights; emphasises the need for guardians, including temporary guardians as an emergency measure, to be appointed immediately for child victimreturn to their families;
Amendment 419 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Notes the low number of prosecutions and convictions for the crime of trafficking; urges the Member States to take measures to improve the investigation of trafficking cases and to put in place strong criminal sanctions for crimes of human trafficking and migrant smuggling;
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Points out that not all Member States have introduced legislation relevant to Article 18 of the Anti-Trafficking Directive27; notes that the differing legal landscapes on criminalising the use of services exacted from victims may hamper efforts to reduce demand; reiterates its call on the Member States to establish the act of knowingly using the services of victims of human trafficking as a criminal offence; _________________ 27 Second progress report, COM(2018)0777, p. 29.
Amendment 429 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Stresses the importance of financial investigation and ‘following the money’ as a key strategy for investigating and prosecuting the organised crime networks that profit from THB; calls on the Commission to assess and promote the use of existing judicial and police cooperation, and the available tools;
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Recalls the role of EU agencies in the early identification of victims and the fight against THB; calls for more resources for the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Agencies to enable their staff to be trained and capacity-building instruments to be developed in the area of detecting victims, including the appointment of gender- trained agency officers, especially in the Member States faced with increased mixed migratory flows; calls on the Commission to develop guidelines to mainstream gender expertise in the activities of law enforcement authorities across the EU;
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Calls on the Commission to amend the Anti-Trafficking Directive with a view to updating its provisions, including the establishment of specific measures for the prevention and prosecution of trafficking for sexual exploitation as the largest area of THB, and to address the use of online technologies in both the proliferation and the prevention of THB, to improve measures for prevention and the early identification of victims, and to strengthen a horizontal gender perspective across all forms of trafficking, as well as to ensure that Member States explicitly criminalise the use of all services which involve exploitation;
Amendment 496 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to monitor and assessenhance control measures so that to avoid the risk for the persons being smuggled of becoming victims of trafficking, with a particular focus on the situation of unaccompanied minors and women; underlines, in this context, the need for meffectively enforce legalaws and safe routes for migration in order to prevent the exploitation of vulnerable people with irregular status;enacting stronger sanctions to human traffickers and migrant smugglers.
Amendment 501 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37