15 Amendments of Zoltán BAGÓ related to 2011/2182(INI)
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the right of EU citizens to receive news from independent media, since the freedom and pluralism of the media shall be respected, as laid down in Article 11 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to step up its efforts to develop tools for improving academic recognition of diplomas and periods of study, and to review EU rules harmonising training requirements for professions which benefit from automatic recognition, thereby removing obstacles to the mobility of students and job-seekers;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the EU Citizenship Report 2010, which sets the objective of dismantling the obstacles to EU citizens’ rights, and the proposals contained therein; calls on the Commission to ensure that the legislative and non-legislative measures provided for in the report are put forward as soon as possible and approved, – taking into account the civil and criminal substantive and procedural laws of the various Member States – so as to ensure that EU citizens’ rights become effective and that Member States abolishremove the obstacles toin domestic law preventing the enjoyment of those rights;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers it important to stress that the measures taken to dismantle the obstacles impeding the validation of EU citizens’ rights must not violate the existing provisions of the given Member State’s constitution, civil or criminal code or case law;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that, although the right to petition the European Parliament is expressly provided for in the Treaties, it is not sufficiently well known or used, and therefore calls for citizens to be provided with improved information and detailed clarification, including justifications and explanations, about the right to petition, in particular through European Parliament offices in the Member States;;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI), which will apply from 1 April 2012, constitutes the first instrument of transnational participatory democracy and will give citizens the possibility to become more actively involved in the framing of European policies and legislation; calls for the effective implementation of the ECI Regulation, and, in particular, calls on the EU institutions and Member States to take an active role and participate effectively in informing citizens about this new instrument;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. While recognising the right to information as one of the cornerstones of democracy, considers that greater access to information on investigations and infringement files could be provided by the Commission without jeopardising the purpose of the investigations and that an overriding public interest might well justify access to these files, particularly in cases where fundamental rights, human health and the protection of the environment against irreversible damage may be at stake, as well as if proceedings are under way regarding discrimination against a minority or for violations of human dignity;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to ensure that Member States transpose and implement the FMD correctly, making full use of its power to launch infringement proceedings; calls on Member States to remove existing legal and practical barriers to the free movement of citizens and not to introduce cumbersome, unjustified administrative procedures restricting the application of that right, as well as to repeal those that are currently in force as soon as possible; calls on the Commission, further, to step up its efforts to raise awareness about citizens’ right to free movement and to assist them in exercising it, in particular when it is denied or limited;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on those Member States which have decided to introduce or to continue applying transitional arrangements restricting access by Romanian and Bulgarian nationals to their labour markets1 to revise their decisions by the end of 2011peal them immediately on the basis of the principle of equality, the prohibition of discrimination, their unjustified nature and solidarity, and provide the citizens of the Member States concerned with free access to the labour market;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Repeats its previous calls to the Member States to ensure freedom of movement for all EU citizens and their families, without discrimination on grounds of their sexual orientation or nationality2; stresses at the same time that it takes full account of, and respects, the provisions and stipulations laid down in the constitutions and family laws of the individual Member States regarding families; repeats its call to Member States to implement fully the rights granted under Articles 2 and 3 of Directive 2004/38/EC not only to different- sex spouses, but also to the registered partner, member of the household or partner with whom an EU citizen has a duly attested, stable relationship, including members of same-sex couples, on the basis of the principles of mutual recognition, equality, non-discrimination, dignity and respect for private and family life; in that connection, calls on the Commission to ensure that the directive is strictly applied, drawing on the analysis and conclusions contained in the reports of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, and to monitor these issues;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to pay more attention and respond more precisely to the numerous petitions received on the mutual recognition of civil-status documents and of their effects1 and therefore highlights the importance of making progress as quickly as possible towards ensuring the mutual recognition of the status of same- sex marriages and same-sex and different- sex recognised partnerships across the EU and overcoming discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or type of relationship (civil partnership or marriage); calls on the Commission, further, to put forward appropriate legislative proposals as a matter of urgencyaccordingly calls upon the Commission to put forward legislative proposals that enable all Member States to provide for the legislative background and the procedural-law possibility on the basis of which those Member States that do not regulate the legal status of same- sex marriages and same-sex and different- sex recognised partnerships make it possible to access the documents referred to, to procure those and their recognition, based on the prohibition of discrimination;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Highlights the fact that mass expulsions represent a breach of the FMD, in addition to contravening the basic values and principles underpinning the European Union; recalls that, under the FMD, restrictions on freedom of movement and residence on grounds of public policy or public security can be imposed exclusively on the basis of personal conduct, without any discrimination on grounds such as ethnic or national origin, and that lack of economic means or any other purpose relating to compensation, punishment or disenfranchisement cannot be used as the justification for the automatic expulsion of EU citizens (Recital 16, Article 14); .
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges Member States to abolish policies that discriminate, either directly or indirectly, against the Roma and other minority groups on the grounds of race and ethnicity, and calls on them to stop all instances of persecution, eviction and expulsion, and to annul and repeal those laws that directly or indirectly refer to or provide for the persecution, eviction, forced return, or confiscation of assets of Roma or local minority groups and calls on them to stop all instances of persecution, eviction and expulsion; calls on all Member States and the EU to take joint responsibility for promoting the integration of Roma, in keeping with the European Parliament resolution of 9 March 2011 on the EU strategy on Roma inclusion1 and ‘An EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020’2, and to promote and protect their fundamental rights;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Insists that the Commission initiate without delay infringement proceedings against all Member States that have provisions in force in their current legal systems concerning the persecution, eviction, or possible forced return of Roma or any other minority group;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. The relevant provision of EU legislation and the Agreement that states that all EU citizens have the right to travel to and stay in other Member States, cannot, with reference to the right of access, infringe upon or inhibit the prohibitive provisions of the given Member State – which are based on child protection, safety of life, or on other reasonable and justified reasons – or the final judgement issued by an independent court of the given Member State that has a territorial scope;