3 Amendments of Tatjana ŽDANOKA related to 2009/2241(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Underlines also that the EU accession to the ECHR will imply a competence of the ECtHR on all aspects of EU law and legislation, in particular in the field of Justice and Home Affairs, including its external dimension;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that EU accession to the ECHR will provide the Union’s citizens with an additional mechanism for enforcing theirhuman rights, namely the possibility of lodging a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in relation to an act or failure to act by an EU institution or a Member State implementing EU law and falling at the same time within the remit of the ECHR. Stresses, however, that this does not alter the present system of jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ), and that the requirement that all domestic judicial remedies should have been exhausted will remain the condition for the eligibility of any application. Reminds that a complaint in certain cases may relate to acts performed or producing effect outside the Union's territory;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 1
Paragraph 7 – indent 1
- the fact that the scope of the accession should be precisely defined in the mandate; the EU should also accede, at the least, to all those Additional Protocols to the ECHR which complement the rights enshrined in the ECHR and which have already been ratified by all the EU Member States, thus forming part of the EU’s human rights corpus. Furthermore, the accession to the revised European Social Charter shouldare already enshrined by EU law, including the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and so applicable to the EU. In consequence, the accession to the revised European Social Charter and other relevant Council of Europe human rights treaties must be taken into consideration;