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8 Amendments of Panayiotis DEMETRIOU related to 2007/0236(CNS)

Amendment 17 #

Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) EU action to combat terrorism should be undertaken in close cooperation with local and regional authorities which have a key role to play particularly in preventing terrorism, in so far as the instigators and perpetrators of terrorist acts live within local communities and interact with local population employing services and instruments of democracy.
2008/06/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 23 #

Recital 12
(12) Additional jurisdictional rules shcould be established to ensure that public provocationincitement to commit a terrorist offence, recruitment for terrorism and training for terrorism may be effectively prosecuted when they are directed towards or resulted in the commission of a terrorist offence which is subject to the jurisdiction of a Member State.
2008/06/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 25 #

Recital 14
(14) The Union observes the principles recognised by Article 6(2) of the Treaty on European Union and reflected in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, notably Chapters II and VI thereof. Nothing in this Framework Decision may be interpreted as being intended to reduce or restrict fundamental rights or freedoms such as freedom of expression, assembly, or of association, the right to respect for private and family life, including the right to respect of the confidentiality of correspondence and in particular to reduce or restrict the freedom of press and freedom of expression of other medias as they result from constitutional traditions or rules governing the rights and responsibilities of, and the procedural guarantees for, the press or other media where these rules relate to the determination or limitation of liability.
2008/06/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 29 #

Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) The criminalisations provided for in this Framework Decision should be effected in such a way as to be proportionate to the legitimate aims pursued and compatible with the rules of democracy and the rule of non- discrimination.
2008/06/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 38 #

Article 1 − point 1
Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA
Article 3 − paragraph 1 − point (a)
(a) "public provocationincitement to commit a terrorist offence" means the distribution, or otherwise making available, of a message to the public, with the intent to incite intentionally advocating, directly or indirectly the commission of one of the actoffences listed in Article 1(1)(a) to (h), where such conduct, whether or not directly advocating terrorist offences, can be reasonably expected to causes a danger that one or more such offences may be committed;
2008/06/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 44 #

Article 1 − point 1
Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA
Article 3 − paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The Member States shall ensure that the acts referred to in paragraph 2(a) to (c) of this Article are criminalised with due respect to the obligations relating to freedom of speech and freedom of association by which those States are bound, in particular the obligations relating to freedom of the press and freedom of expression in other media.
2008/06/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 47 #

Article 1 − point 2
Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA
Article 4 − paragraph 3 a (new)
"3a. Each Member State may decide to criminalize and make proportionally punishable the attempt to commit an offence referred to in Article 3 (b) and (c).''
2008/06/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 49 #

Article 1 − point 3
Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA
Article 9 − paragraph 1 a
1a. Each Member State shallmay also establish its jurisdiction over the offences referred to in Article 3(2)(a) to (c) where the offence was directed towards or resulted in the carrying out of an offence referred to in Article 1 and such offence is subject to the jurisdiction of the Member State under any of the criteria set out in paragraph 1(a) to (e) of this Article.
2008/06/10
Committee: LIBE