2 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2013/0024(COD)
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14 a (new)
Recital 14 a (new)
(14a) Attention should be paid to remittances, which is to say money sent by migrants resident abroad to their families or, more generally, to their countries of origin. Only international cash movements of this kind which pass through official channels are measured, and the statistics take no account of remittances conveyed through informal channels, such as unregistered money transfer organisations or illegal or criminal groupings, which do not operate in migrants' best interests.
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a (new)
(10a) ‘remittances’ means money sent by migrants resident abroad to their families or, more generally, to their country of origin;