7 Amendments of Tatjana ŽDANOKA related to 2015/2086(INL)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Insists on the absolute necessity to ensure legal certainty in the field of inter- country adoption for the protection of the parents' and children's rights respecting at the same time EU law provisions as regards European Citizenship; considers that it must be ensured that the exercise of a fundamental right such as the freedom of movement and residence does not entail a higher threat to the right to family life;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to avoid heavy bureaucracy in the process of recognition of Conventional adoptions already recognised in another EU Member State so as to ensure a correct implementation of the 1993 Hague Convention, while at the same time ensuring a minimum of procedural safeguards and timing so that all the involved stakeholders can have their rights guaranteed;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Draws the attention of the European Commission, the Council and the Member States on the possible harmful consequences of non-consensual adoptions for birth parents and the adopted children; considers that such a procedure should be restricted to particularly exceptional and well grounded cases;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Considers that it must be ensured that no decision involving changes in custody of children such as foster care placement order or adoption procedures, have their origin in the budgetary cuts resulting of the austerity measures imposed during the economic crisis;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Stresses the importance of providing social workers with adequate working conditions to perform their assessment, avoiding an excessive workload in terms of amount of cases to be handled simultaneously, or any other pressure imposed by the applying legal framework that could influence in any way a decision to be made with a certain bias, which could deviate from the best interest of the child with the short, mid and long term perspectives all considered; recommends that an adequate amount of specialised training on children matters is provided not only to social workers and other concerned public officers, but also to lawyers involved in child custody proceedings;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on Member States, in case of proceedings related to non-consensual adoptions with cross-border aspects, to systematically implement the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963 and to make sure that the authorities of the States of origin of the parents involved have been properly informed are properly informed from the very beginning and throughout the whole process, and that they have proper access to the proceedings and the related files; underlines the importance of ensuring that adequate interpretation and legal aid is provided whenever necessary;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States, in case of adoption, to ensure that the relatives of the birth parents have had a real opportunity to apply as permanent carer of the child before any definitive decision on custody is made; remarks in light of the importance of preserving multilingualism and the cultural diversity, that children adopted or placed into care have sufficient links with their original culture and do not lose their mother tongue, and particularly that visiting rights of biological parents can take place with the adequate frequency and in their own language;