15 Amendments of Nicolae Vlad POPA related to 2008/2235(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas it is essential to set clear, well-defined and unambiguous rules for the reception and treatment of asylum seekers in agreement with the rules laid down by the Geneva Convention, while a distinction should be made between asylum seekers, economic migrants and temporary refugees,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to establish, in cooperation with the European Parliament, a permanent system of visits and inspections; hopes that the LIBE Committee can continue its visits with a view to ensuring compliance with Community law concerning reception conditions;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reminds the Member States of their obligation to guarantee to asylum seekers access to asylum application procedures;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Urges the Member States to apply the Reception Directive to all asylum seekers from the moment when they express their wish to request protection in a Member State, even if the asylum claim has not been formally lodged;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Urges the Commission to remind Member States that withdrawal or reduction of reception conditions on grounds not included in the Reception Directive is or should be strictly prohibited.
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Basic reception conditions, such as food, housing and emergency heath care should never be withheld, since their withdrawal may violate asylum seekers’ fundamental rights;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Expresses its concern over the lack of interpreters, including at official interviews; urges the Member States to provide a public interpreting service free of charge, if necessary by telephone or via the Internet;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Encourages the Member States to make use of financial assistance under the European Refugee Fund - the costs arising from this being appropriately shared among the Member States - in order to improve access to information and, in particular, to increase the number of languages, or media, in which the information is made available;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Member States to extend the medical cover currently offered so that it is not limited solely to emergency care, and to also provide psychological counselling and mental health care;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States not to limposeit legal or administrative constraints amounting to obstacles to employment access;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Calls on the Member States to enforce the recommendation of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to ban all forms of corporal punishment, including within the family, especially when minors are in detention;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Points out that all minors have the right to education, whether or not they are in their country of origin; calls on the Member States to guarantee that right, including when minors are in detention; calls for access to education to be provided directly in the community, without any form of administrative restriction having the effect of separating foreign minorsin an appropriate manner corresponding to the assessment of the level of knowledge of children, while at the same time developing transitional models allowing the acquisition of the necessary linguistic competences for a normal education, so as to ensure the best possible integration of children and their families;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Calls for an independent legal guardian to be appointed for each unaccompanied minor to ensure his or her protection both in waiting areas such as airports, railway stations and throughout the territory of the Member States; calls for the powers and role of the legal guardian to be clearly defined;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to put in place a harmonised and reliable mechanism for identifying unaccompanied minors, – by making use of the latest technologies such as the use of biometric data – and common rules concerning age disputes; points out, in this regard, that during an age dispute procedure the person concerned must, as a precaution, be considered a minor until the end of the procedure and therefore treated as such;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Article 40 a (new)
Article 40 a (new)
40a. Points out that a policy of family reunification is appropriate as long as it is limited to the core family;