9 Amendments of Martine ROURE related to 2007/2210(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas although current estimates put organ trafficking at a relatively low level among all forms of trafficking, trafficking in organs and tissues is becoming an increasing global problem which occurs within and across national borders and is demand driven (estimation of 150-250 cases/year in Europehe commercialisation of transplants and transplant tourism is a growing phenomenon involving the exploitation of the citizens of less-favoured countries by those from more powerful countries (including the EU Member States);
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission's initiative to prepare a legal framework on safety and quality for donation and transplantation, and calls for minimum standards of requirements to be defined in a flexible manner, bearing in mind that transplantation could be a lifesaving treatment for the patient, in which case even a higher riskrisk level higher than that for tissues and cells can be accepted;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Asks the Commission and the Council to update the Action Plan on Trafficking in human beings and include trafficking in organsin it an action plan for the fight against trafficking in organs, in order to enable closer cooperation by the authorities concerned;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges Member States to adopt or maintain strict legal provisions in connection with transplantation from unrelated living donors, in order to make the system transparent and exclude the possibility of illicit organ selling or coercion of donors; thus, donations by unrelated living donors can only be made under the conditions defined in national law and following authorisation by a suitable independent body;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that the practice of organ and tissue trafficking should be universally banned, including the transplantation of organs and tissues from executed prisoners; calls on the Commission and the Member States to raise the awareness of the international community on this issue, with a view to identifying networks in third countries which practise the clandestine removal of organs from persons sentenced to death without their consent;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that the practice of organ and tissue trafficking should be universally banned, including the transplantation of organs and tissues from executed prisoners, minors or the mentally handicapped;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges Member States, where necessary, to amend their criminal codes to ensure that those responsible for organ trafficking are adequately prosecuted, including sanctions for medical staff involved in transplantation of organs obtained from trafficking, while making every effort to discourage potential recipients from seeking trafficked organs and tissues; this should include, in third countries, the criminal responsibility of European citizens who have purchased organs inside or outside the Union;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses importance of financing organ procurement and transplantation under a separdedicated budget line, so as not to make transplantation a disincentive for hospitals;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to take into consideration the further development and expansion of the existing European web- page on organ donation www.eurodonor.org (and/or www.eurocet.org), as well as that of the WHO (www.transplant-observatory.org), on all EU Member States in all official EU languages, with the aim to provide all relevant information and data on organ donation and transplantation.