Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that this new mechanism could be activated immediately, on the basis of a Commission decision, and that it should: (a) set indicators (FRA and Commission); (b) monitor the situation in the EU, as well as in the Member States (FRA, Commission, Council, Parliament); (c) carry out objective and comparative assessments, for each fundamental right or subject and for each Member State individually, of all instruments relating to human rights, such as the ECHR, Council of Europe and UN documents, NGOs, etc. (FRA reports, Commission annual reports, Parliament annual reports, Council annual reports); (d) establish a European policy cycle on the application of Article 2 of the EU Treaty (democracy, rule of law, fundamental rights, equality) to provide an annual and multiannual framework, and an open annual interinstitutional forum on these European values, in particular the protection of fundamental rights; (e) develop and adopt a set of recommendations and penalties (e.g. the temporary suspension of Fund commitments, the application of certain acts, etc.) to deal with violations of Article 2 and Article 7 of the EU Treaty; (f) incorporate an early-warning system, political and technical dialogue, letters of formal notice and a ‘freezing procedure’;deleted