72 Amendments of Andrzej GRZYB related to 2018/2044(INI)
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the national security and intelligence agencies of EU Member States and of some third countries cooperate very effectively through the Counter Terrorism Group (CTG) and on a bilateral and multilateral basis; whereas the EU has an established complex of structures dealing wholly or in part with terrorism, notably through Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC), EU INTCEN and facilitated by the European Counter- Terrorism Coordinator;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas on 6 July 2017 the Parliament set up a temporary Special Committee on Terrorism (TERR) with the aim of providing Parliament’s view as to the practical and legislative gaps in the current counter-terrorism regime that have allowed the recent terrorist attacks in the EU to occur and making recommendations that would help tackle the terrorist threat at EU level;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
F b. whereas, in order to allow the Parliament to dedicate sufficient attention and the specific efforts necessary for contributing effectively and responding to the challenges posed by terrorism, a standing parliamentary committee responsible for internal security and terrorism should be set up within the Parliament; whereas the setting up of such a standing parliamentary committee will signal the Parliament’s engagement and understanding of the importance of the issues of internal security, international organised crime and terrorism, which are at the forefront of EU citizens’ concerns; whereas it will also reflect the significance of this issue for the Parliament and will mirror the institutional setup in other EU institutions and bodies, such as the creation of a Security Union Task Force and the appointment of a Commissioner for the Security Union within the Commission, the creation of a European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC) within Europol, as well as the existence of a Working Party on Terrorism within the Council;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas of 88 legally binding counter-terrorism measures proposed from September 2001 to summer 2013 only a quarter were subject to impact assessments and only three to public consultation1a; whereas this ratio has improved in recent years and the most recent initiatives presented by the Commission in 2017 and 2018 were accompanied by the necessary justification; whereas with the Agenda on Better Regulation adopted in 2015 the Commission has also strengthened its policy on stakeholder consultation; __________________ 1a Study on The European Union’s Policies on Counter-Terrorism: Relevance, Coherence and Effectiveness, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs, PE 583.124, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/e tudes/STUD/2017/583124/IPOL_STU(201 7)583124_EN.pdf
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T
Recital T
T. whereas new forms of terrorism may be used for an attack, among them cyber-terrorism and the use of weapons of mass destruction, possibly in connection with new technical equipment such as drones; whereas there is the precedent of a foiled attack involving the highly toxic biological agent ricin; whereas there are cases where Daesh has used or planned to use chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) materials, and shared via social media channels possible tactics and methods for attacks and targets;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas populism-fuelled political discourse regarding the terrorist threat can lead to polarisation within society; whereas there is a need for a proper education and training aiming at building resilience against populism
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas populism-fuelled political discourse regarding the terrorist threat can lead to polarisation within society, exploited both by left- and right-wing agitators;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U a (new)
Recital U a (new)
U a. whereas there is a big amount of disinformation and untrue stories concerning the terrorist threat disseminated in the European societies that aim at stirring unrest; whereas the disinformation campaigns lead to radicalisation within the Member States;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Z
Recital Z
Z. whereas several European funds and programmes can be used for projects countering and preventing radicalisation; whereas the EU budget up to 2020 allocates EUR 314 million for anti- radicalisation projects1a; whereas there is no continuous evaluation of the effectiveness of those programmes; __________________ 1a Speech by Commissioner Jourová, in charge of Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, at the Conference on Radicalisation in Prisons, in Brussels, Borschette, 27.2.2018 http://europa.eu/rapid/press- release_SPEECH-18-1221_en.htm
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AA
Recital AA
AA. whereas it is estimated that there are between 50 000 and 70 000 radicalised jihadists in the EU;1a; __________________ 1a Jean Charles Brisard, Centre d’Analyse du Terrorisme, TERR meeting of 9 April 2018
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AH
Recital AH
AH. whereas Europol’s Internet Referral Unit (IRU) has made more than 50 000 referrals and on average 87 %1a of the content referred to companies by the IRU has been removed on the basis of voluntary consideration of the compatibility of the referred internet content with their own terms and conditions; __________________ 1a TERR hearing 24 April 2018, testimony by Mr Luigi Soreca, Director for Security, DG Home, European Commission
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AI
Recital AI
AI. whereas although majorsome progress has been made with regard to removal of online terrorist content, there is a need to scale up the companies’ engagement; whereas the removals are often not complete, removing the content from one website but leaving it on another belonging to the same company; whereas effective and comprehensive, take too much time or allow for the content to return; whereas in some cases accounts are left undeleted even after violating company's terms of service; whereas effective, comprehensive and transparent reporting by companies has to be improved;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AJ
Recital AJ
AJ. whereas, in response to larger companies removing more content and doing so at a greater pace, Daesh is increasingly using new and/or smaller platforms which are less suited to fast removal of terrorist material; whereas this diversification to smaller platforms makes exchange of good practices and additional technical support essential to enable, for example, the introduction of platform- agnostic automated tools, such as the database of hasheshashing technology which can identify online terrorist content with a high degree of accuracy; whereas establishing minimum EU standards for terms of service in this context is required;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AK
Recital AK
AK. whereas prisons have become hothouses of extremism, incubating terrorists especially if high risk prisoners are not monitored and separated enough from the general population and there are no programs countering radicalisation implemented; whereas many of those serving prison sentences will soon be released back into their communities and therrequiring intensive are fewintegration efforts and greater resources to monitor their activities; whereas prison conditions can play a significant role in heightening or lessening risks of radicalisation;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AL
Recital AL
AL. whereas retention of data is an essential part of the investigative process; whereas police and, judicial authorities and intelligence services usually rely heavily on communications data to successfully proceed with their casework; whereas in order for interoperability of information systems to reach its full potential, harmonised data retention regimes across the EU are vital; whereas the necessity of an appropriate data retention regime when it comes to the fight against terrorism was consistently raised during the work of the TERR Committee;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AM
Recital AM
AM. whereas the use of encryption by terrorists to protect their communications or stored data represents a considerable challenge for law enforcement and intelligence services, denying access to essential intelligence and evidence; whereas encryption becomes particularly critical when even the responsible online service providers are unwilling or unable to decrypt the communication;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AV a (new)
Recital AV a (new)
AV a. whereas - in the context of the Information Management strategy (IMS), 6th Action list - there are currently two on-going pilot projects which aim at ensuring interlinking with decentralised systems, namely the ADEP project (Automation of data exchange processes on police records) and project QUEST (“Querying Europol Systems”); where-as such projects help provide real and workable solutions to the problems stemming from the lack of interconnectivity of decentralised information systems and help foster trust and cooperation between the Member States;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BB a (new)
Recital BB a (new)
BB a. whereas in order to guarantee the CTG’s long-term public acceptance and rapprochement towards the EU security structure, there is a need to enhance its public visibility without limiting the privacy needed for effective intelligence cooperation;
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BD
Recital BD
BD. whereas efficient and systematic cooperation between the Member States and the EU agencies as well as among the agencies in the counter-terrorism field is imperative, especially cooperation between Europol and Eurojust in order to effectively detect, prevent, and investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of a terrorist attack; whereas Eurojust has appointed a specialised counter-terrorism prosecutor to make the bridge with the ECTC at Europol to increase cooperation and information exchange between the two agencies;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BG
Recital BG
BG. whereas several EU instruments such as Decision 2005/671/JHA, the CT Directive and the Europol regulation require Member States to share information on terrorism with the relevant agencies; whereas increased information sharing with Europol and Eurojust on a regular basis and in a timely and systematic manner, including contextual information, facilitates their work in detecting links between cases and providing an overview of challenges and best practice related to investigations, prosecutions and convictions for terrorist offences; whereas information shared with Eurojust has increased over the past years, but differences continue to exist between the Member States in relation to the amount, type and scope of the information shared, which may result in fragmented information available1a; __________________ 1a While only 14 terrorism cases were referred to Eurojust in 2014, the number of cases dealt by Eurojust from 2014-2018 reached 263 with a total of 61 coordination meetings in 75 terrorism cases, 2 coordination centres and 14 cases with JITs supported by Eurojust
Amendment 403 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BG a (new)
Recital BG a (new)
BG a. whereas the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, to be established on the basis of Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1339, shall have the important task of investigating and prosecuting criminal offences affecting the financial interests of the Union, its establishment and the allocation of financial resources to this new body should not negatively impact the abilities of existing structures, such as Eurojust, to facilitate the efforts of the Member States in the fight against terrorism;
Amendment 405 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BG b (new)
Recital BG b (new)
BG b. whereas CEPOL substantially contributes to CT training for law enforcement officials of the Member States and in priority third countries;
Amendment 410 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BJ
Recital BJ
BJ. whereas joint investigation teams (JITs) facilitate the coordination of investigations and prosecutions in cases with a cross-border dimension and allow for real-time exchange of information/evidence; whereas the practical benefits resulting from the use of JITs include improved information exchange, exchange of best practices, enhanced collection of evidence and mutual recognition of the actions carried out by the parties; whereas JITs require appropriate funding to work effectively;
Amendment 454 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BS
Recital BS
BS. whereas battlefield evidence is often essential to identify potential foreign terrorist fighters and needs to be included in the relevant databases in order to reach border guards in real time and to be shared with investigators and prosecutors for investigations and prosecutions;
Amendment 496 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CA
Recital CA
CA. whereas cyber-attacks on electronic services or through interconnected systems are a key component of hybrid threats; whereas an increasing number of cyber- attacks have, or can have, kinetic effects on critical infrastructure; whereas there is a need to increase readiness to counter cyber threats;
Amendment 499 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CB
Recital CB
CB. whereas the Commission Comprehensive Assessment of EU Security Policy and the evaluation study of Directive 2008/114/EC indicate that: the threat to critical infrastructures is likely to continue to rise, that there is a need to enhance preparation and response capabilities and to revise Directive 2008/114/EC, and that there is an interest in targeting transport infrastructures; whereas a better framework is needed to improve rail security and to address the issue of protection of public areas of transport infrastructures, such as airports and, ports and maritime transport, as well as railway stations;
Amendment 504 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CE
Recital CE
CE. whereas the private sector should be involved in the protection of critical infrastructure and soft targets, particularly in the cyber-domain;
Amendment 510 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CG
Recital CG
CG. whereas the Commission, in its communication on the new Multiannual Financial Framework, proposes to significantly increase EU funding for security and defence, includingwhich is projected to reach 27,5 billion euro, including 2,5 billion on internal security;
Amendment 514 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CH a (new)
Recital CH a (new)
CH a. whereas vehicle rental companies lack the ability to exchange information such as booking or reservation data with law enforcement agencies for the purpose of cross-checks against official watch-lists and police databases;
Amendment 515 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CI
Recital CI
CI. whereas in 2015 and 2016, explosives were used in 40 % of the terrorist attacks committed in the EU;1a; __________________ 1a Europol TeSat 2017, p. 10
Amendment 517 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CJ
Recital CJ
CJ. whereas the explosive used in most of the attacks was triacetone triperoxide (TATP)1a, a home-made explosive that remains the explosive of choice for terrorists; whereas TATP can be quite easily manufactured using only a few substances; __________________ 1a Europol TeSat 2017, p. 15
Amendment 527 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CP
Recital CP
CP. whereas according to Europol’s Te- Sat 2018 report, firearms were used in 41 % of all attacks, a slight increase compared to 2016 (38 %);1a; __________________ 1a Europol TeSat 2018, p. 9
Amendment 558 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CX
Recital CX
CX. whereas the EU is cooperating with third countries in the area of counter- terrorism in a variety of ways; whereas a number of EU instruments can be used to finance CT programmes abroad; whereas the EU has deployed a network of CT experts within EU delegations; whereas EU agencies such as Europol, Eurojust and CEPOL are also cooperating with third countries in the area of counter-terrorism, through strategic and operational agreements for example;
Amendment 574 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital DA
Recital DA
DA. whereas deaths caused by terrorist attacks destroy families and leave a legacy of irrevocable sadness, and many of the injured survivors of terrorist attacks suffer from disabilities, disfiguring and life- changing loss of senselimbs and limbpsychological problems and their plight impacts heavily on close family, while too often once the media spotlight has passed, the long-term needs of the victims are neglected;
Amendment 640 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that, at this stage, the EU and the Member States should improve cooperation through existing European agencies, specialised EU services and Member States’ security and justice institutions;
Amendment 664 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on Member States and the Commission to further strengthen and support the ATLAS network of civilian anti-terror special operation units of the EU Member States;
Amendment 679 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to monitor all foreign terrorist fighters; calls for an effective and appropriate follow-up of the threat posed by returnees, and for this purpose invites Member States to share contextual information about returnees via Europol and intelligence assessments on that topic with EU INTCEN; calls on the Commission to assist Member States in the establishment of aligned classification systems in order to distinguish between high, medium and low-risk returnees;
Amendment 693 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the Commission to present a legislative proposal that precludes convicted terrorist offenders as well as persons where there is clear evidence that they pose a severe threat to public security from applying for asylum or other forms of international protection throughout the European Union;
Amendment 702 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls on Member States and the Commission to establish regional – if applicable cross-border – stockpiling centres to ensure comprehensive availability of medical countermeasures including vaccines following the dual-use principle, and to use the Joint Procurement Mechanism to avoid parallel uncoordinated efforts;
Amendment 703 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Calls on Member States to create or strengthen specialised laboratories; asks the Commission and Parliament to fund and support relevant cross-border research activities;
Amendment 706 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to set common standards for vetting procedures at vulnerable institutions such as nuclear power plants or specialised laboratories;
Amendment 708 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Encourages Member States to make more use of technical detection systems of CBRN substances particularly at large-scale public events and calls on the Commission and the European Parliament to make further European funding available for comprehensive acquisitions of such systems;
Amendment 709 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9 c. Welcomes the approval of a regulation on civil aviation safety and the mandate of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and repealing Regulation (EC) No 216/2008; calls on the Commission to take into account security aspects for forthcoming delegated and implementing rules on drones and drones operations, including regularly updated risk assessments; mandatory registration, electronic identification and geofencing in all drones categories; and mandatory security licenses and trainings for operators of security and inspection missions;
Amendment 721 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that terrorists have been known to start off in petty crime; is concerned that certain Member States’ justice systems have low conviction rates, with inadequate sentences being issued for serious crime and radicalised individuals being released prematurely or on parole; therefore encourages Member States to organise their justice systems such as to emphasise strongly the need to ensure effective intervention vis-à-vis habitual offenders and sufficient dissuasiveness for such offenders; encourages the Member States to consult such changes on the intergovernmental level;
Amendment 730 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Stresses that there is evidence of co-operation of criminals and criminal organisations and terrorist organisations posing a severe threat across the EU;
Amendment 744 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for the creation of an EU ‘Centre of Excellence for Preventing Radicalisation (CoE PR)’, to be embedded in the Commission with adequate financial and human resources; believes its tasks should include coordination, including of funding, and facilitation of cooperation among Member States, policymakers, practitioners (by involving former RAN and ESCN structures), experts, including IT sector, data scientists and researchers in the area of preventing and countering radicalisation, exchange of best practices, lighthouse projects and training, also by partnering with key strategic third countries; considers that this centre should also establish methodologies to evaluate and measure the effectiveness of programmes and projects;
Amendment 770 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Calls on Eurojust to continue its work in monitoring the jurisprudence in Member States as regards radicalisation leading to terrorism, including the use of alternatives to prosecution and detention, and to report regularly in its Terrorism Conviction Monitor (TCM); to this end, calls on the Member States to transmit to Eurojust all relevant information on prosecutions and convictions for terrorist offences which affect or may affect two or more Member States;
Amendment 840 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Invites the Member States to examine how to ensure that places of worship, education, charities, cultural associations and similar entities provide details regarding the provenance of their funds and their distribution, both within and outside the EU, and how data concerning these entities, where there exists suspicion or reasonable grounds to suspect links with terrorist groups, could be recorded in a centralised database, set up with all the appropriate guarantees; calls on Member States to ban funding from third countries that oppose the EU’s fundamental values of democracy, pluralism, tolerance, and equality between men and women;
Amendment 849 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Asks the Member States to ban and remove all religious literature within their territory that incites to violent and terrorist acts; including all content produced by or expressing support for individuals or groups sanctioned by the European Union or United Nations; asks for such literature or content to be removed from online platforms and shops as part of the referrals by the Internet Referral Unit;
Amendment 885 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Underlines the need to achieve automatic, fast and fullpermanent removal of terrorist content and solutions preventing upload or streaming of terrorist content, especially re-uploading already recognised and/or removed content; requests the Commission to present a legislative proposal obliging companies to remove terrorist content fully within one hour from upload and to introduce clear transparent reporting obligations on the incidence of terrorist content and removal rates, descriptions on what content was removed and why, how many views the content received prior to removal, how long the content stayed online prior to removal and whether or not the account associated with the offending content was deleted and when, as well as sanctions for non-compliance;
Amendment 910 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for the creation of an online European platform that citizens can use in order to flag terrorist and extremist content onlineompanies to increase capacity to better enable users to flag terrorist and extremist content online and increase companies’ capabilities to receive, review, and respond to flagged content;
Amendment 921 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls for involvement of social media and audiovisual companies, including public broadcasters, in developing and disseminating effective counter-narratives, also with the inclusion of victims and to ensure that search engines place counter-narratives prominently;
Amendment 947 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)
Paragraph 29 b (new)
29 b. Urges the Member States to guarantee safety, physical and psychological integrity of staff in prisons, to provide them with regular psychological counselling so that they do not become radicalised themselves and to develop and update official protocols of how to deal with radicalised prisoners;
Amendment 988 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Urges Member States to adopt the approach of ‘information sharing by default’ when it comes to sharing CT- related information with other Member States and relevant EU agencies and bodies, thus exchanging such information as a rule, and refraining from such exchange only in specific cases where circumstances require that it be withheld;
Amendment 1078 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51 a (new)
Paragraph 51 a (new)
51 a. Stresses the need for continuous training to ensure the knowledge sharing and awareness of the necessary requirements in terms of system usage and the steps necessary to ensure the quality of the data-input.
Amendment 1110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Calls on the Member States to examine the possibility of better coordination and cooperation between intelligence and law enforcement services at EU level by increasingly sending intelligence experts in addition to law enforcement staff to the meetings of the Counter-Terrorism Joint Liaison Team (CTJLT) at Europol, which could serve as a blueprint for further cooperation between law enforcement and intelligence; calls on the Commission to increase support to the CTJLT, including special funding;
Amendment 1115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
Paragraph 57
57. Calls on Member States and European stakeholders to continue existing operational capabilities and enhance maximum effective cooperation in the fields of counter-terrorism and internal security; encourages Member States to actions aiming at creation of a custom to exchange information and cooperation, particularly in the context of terrorist threat;
Amendment 1176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 67 b (new)
Paragraph 67 b (new)
67 b. Stresses the need for increased funding to CEPOL and to step up the development and delivery of innovative cyber related training;
Amendment 1181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70
Paragraph 70
70. Calls on Member States to make full use of the expertise and tools offered by Eurojust and the European Judicial Network (EJN), in particular in providing practical and legal information and support when it comes to MLA requests and assistance with mutual recognition requests, coordination of investigations and prosecutions, decisions on best placed jurisdiction to prosecute, or coordination of asset seizures and confiscations;
Amendment 1196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. Calls for the swift adoption before the end of the current Parliament of the Commission proposals for a regulation and directive aimed at improving cross-border access to electronic evidence; requests online service providers (OSPs) to provide single points of contact for law enforcement/judiciary requests;
Amendment 1238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79 a (new)
Paragraph 79 a (new)
79 a. Calls on the Commission to swiftly ensure that EBCGA reaches a standing corps of around 10,000 border guards1a; __________________ 1a http://europa.eu/rapid/press- release_MEMO-18-3621_en.htm
Amendment 1257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85
Paragraph 85
85. Calls on the Member States, FrontexEBCGA and Europol to establish a European Targeting Centre within Frontex that constitutes a joint venture with the national authorities and Europol; believes this centre should assist with the advance identification of travellers who pose a threat to the security of the EU and should function as a ‘round-the-clock’ service for national border guards when there are doubts regarding certain individuals; recommends the use of sophisticated software to increase the effectiveness of targeting and cooperation with international partners in this area;
Amendment 1263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 86
Paragraph 86
86. Welcomes Europol’s participation in the law enforcement cell of the US-led Operation Gallant Phoenix (OGP) in Jordan, whereby it processes information obtained from the battlefield and exchanges it through established channels and procedures with Member States’ law enforcement authorities via the Europol National Units; calls for full access of Europol at OGP;
Amendment 1301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92 a (new)
Paragraph 92 a (new)
92 a. Calls on the EU and Member States to fully implement the recommendations contained in The Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) International Standards on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism & Proliferation;
Amendment 1312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 95
Paragraph 95
Amendment 1313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 96
Paragraph 96
Amendment 1315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 96 a (new)
Paragraph 96 a (new)
96 a. Calls on the European Commission to propose legislation for a robust tracing system for artworks and antiques entering the EU market, especially for items originating from conflict-affected and high-risk countries as listed by the Commission, as well as from organisations, groups or individuals included in the EU terror list; believes that this initiative should be supported by the creation of a standardised permit, without which trading of these items would be illicit, by the creation of a passport for the export of each item; believes that digital tools allowing to check the authenticity of the documents should be developed; notes that a comprehensive register of antiquities for sale should be systematically held up to date by art dealers;
Amendment 1317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 96 b (new)
Paragraph 96 b (new)
96 b. Calls on the Member States to make it mandatory for companies involved in art dealing to declare all suspicious transactions, and to make the owners of companies dealing in art and antiques who become involved in the trafficking of such goods subject to effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties, including criminal penalties where necessary;
Amendment 1320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 97
Paragraph 97
97. Calls on the Commission to develop, together with Member States and international partners, ways of better monitoring financial flows and identifying users of electronic wallets and prepaid cards, crowdfunding platforms and online and mobile payment systems in relevant investigations; calls for a focus on virtual currencies and fintech and calls to explore the possibility to extend sanctions also to crowdfunding on social media for terrorist purposes;
Amendment 1363 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 107
Paragraph 107
107. Recommends that the private sector be involved when devising programmes for the protection of critical infrastructure and soft targets, particularly in the context of cyber-security, and highlights the need to develop public-private dialogues to this effect;
Amendment 1366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 107 a (new)
Paragraph 107 a (new)
107 a. Calls on the Commission to propose a European Certification Initiative for private security companies, aiming to specify requirements and conditions under which private security companies shall be able to operate within Critical Infrastructure environment;
Amendment 1377 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 110
Paragraph 110
110. Believes that a system must be set up for car rental agencies to check the identity of clients against police databases, showing only a red or green flagwithout granting them any kind of access;