Activities of Giusto CATANIA related to 2007/2145(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
The situation of fundamental rights in the European Union (2004-2008) - European area of freedom, security and justice (debate)
The situation of fundamental rights in the European Union (2004-2008) - European area of freedom, security and justice (debate)
Reports (1)
REPORT Report on the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union 2004-2008 PDF (305 KB) DOC (205 KB)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Title of the report
Title of the report
Draft report on fundamental rights in the European Union 2004-20078
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that judges in the Member States have a vital role to play in the enforcement of human rights; urges states to introduce a system of continuous training for national judges on systems for the protection of fundamental rights;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls onUrges all the Member States to take measures to endow the national human rights institutions set up under the United Nations’ ‘Paris principles’set up authoritative and independent national bodies to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms under the United Nations’ ‘Paris principles’; calls on the Member States to take measures to endow existing national human rights institutions with independent status vis-à-vis the executive and sufficient financial resources, taking account, in particular, of the fact that one of these bodies’ tasks is to review human rights policies with the aim of identifying failings and suggesting improvements, on the understanding that effectiveness is measured primarily by the way in which problems are prevented rather than simply resolved;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Points out that it regards it as essential in political terms to incorporate the idea of promoting fundamental rights among the aims to be pursued when simplifying or restructuring the acquis communautaire; calls for every new policy, legislative proposal and programme to be accompanied by an impact assessment concerning respect for fundamental rights and for that assessment to form an integral part of the justification for the proposal and hopes that the Member States will also adopt similar impact assessment instruments in the subsequent transposition of Community law into domestic law;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Draws attention to the major role played by the Council of Europe’s institutions and monitoring mechanisms and its various conventions in the area of human rights; urges the EU Member States, the EU institutions and the Agency to draw on that experience, to take account of those mechanisms by incorporating them into networking procedures and to use the standards developed by the Council of Europe and the other tangible results of its work; calls for the potential offered by the Memorandum of Understanding between the Council of Europe and the European Union to be exploited to the full;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 83
Paragraph 83