Activities of Gianni VATTIMO
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World Economic Forum (Davos) and World Social Forum (Porto Alegre)
Community of Democracies
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European learning area
Education and training systems
European Research Area (Multiannual Framework Programme 2002-2006)
Reopening of Mont Blanc Tunnel
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Human rights
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Climate change – Floods
Tibet
Human rights
Adoption of the Minutes of the previous sitting
One-minute speeches (Rule 150)
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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
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Eavesdropping scandal in Bulgaria (debate)
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Explanations of vote
One-minute speeches on matters of political importance
Freedom of information in Italy (debate)
Reports (1)
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Shadow reports (3)
RECOMMENDATION on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EEC/Euratom) No 354/83, as regards the deposit of the historical archives of the institutions at the European University Institute in Florence PDF (154 KB) DOC (80 KB)
REPORT on modernising Europe’s higher education systems PDF (235 KB) DOC (146 KB)
REPORT on the contribution of the European institutions to the consolidation and progress of the Bologna Process PDF (236 KB) DOC (143 KB)
Shadow opinions (2)
OPINION on the EU Charter: standard settings for Media Freedom across the EU
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a European Neighbourhood Instrument
Written declarations (6)
Amendments (171)
Amendment 20 #
2013/2188(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas blanket mass surveillance of citizens, in the absence of any suspicion, evidence, or charge and without the prior authorisation of a court, or under systems that are weak in terms of legal remedies and democratic control, is a hallmark of totalitarian regimes which trample on citizens’ rights and freedoms; whereas European countries, having endured totalitarian regimes of that kind and the tragedy of the two world wars, are particularly aware of that fact; whereas the ECHR, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, national constitutions, and laws provide a number of safeguards to preserve the right to privacy and data protection and restrict the powers and actions of intelligence agencies, and these are of vital importance;
Amendment 55 #
2013/2188(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas the recent statements and initiatives by President Barack Obama concerning reform of US intelligence activities, though a step in the right direction, are vaguely couched and confined to the principles to observe and do not make any specific change to the law that would genuinely protect citizens, European and otherwise, political and business leaders included, who have been spied upon in vast numbers by US agencies under their surveillance programmes;
Amendment 149 #
2013/2188(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers it very doubtfulIs extremely alarmed at the fact that data collection of such magnitude is only guided by the fight against terrorism, as it, involvesing the collection of all possible data of all citizens; points therefore to the possible existence of other power motives such as political and economic espionage, appears in reality to stem from other motives having to do with influence, power, and supremacy, such as political, economic, industrial, and military espionage, as can be seen, moreover, from the information that has leaked out to date (spying on companies, politicians, ministers, international meetings, etc.);
Amendment 204 #
2013/2188(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on certain EU Member States, including the UK, Germany, France, Sweden and the Netherlands, to revise where necessary their national legislation and practices governing the activities of intelligence services so as to ensure that they are in line with the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights and comply with their fundamental rights obligations as regards data protection, privacy and presumption of innocence; in particular, given the extensive media reports referring to mass surveillance in the UK, would emphasises that the current legal framework which is made up of a ‘complex interaction’ between three separate pieces of legislation – the Human Rights Act 1998, the Intelligence Services Act 1994 and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 – should be revisedmust be revised as a matter of urgency; considers that the continued existence of such sweeping mass surveillance programmes and espionage operations (spying on international meetings, for instance), especially if these are conducted for or in collaboration with non-EU countries, is evidence of a very serious conflict of interest, allegiance, and loyalty, one that is at odds with the EU Treaties and dangerous to European aims and interests and one which the EU and the Member States concerned have to resolve without fail;
Amendment 236 #
2013/2188(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Believes that companies which have collaborated or are involved in mass surveillance operations under the programmes of the US or other European or non-European countries and have failed to inform the European authorities about the conflict of laws should be scrutinised without delay and a decision taken on their exclusion from the Safe Harbour arrangement;
Amendment 354 #
2013/2188(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 a (new)
Paragraph 76 a (new)
76a. Calls on the Member States, should they receive further requests to that effect, to grant political asylum and international protection to Edward Snowden and to any other whistle-blower who exposes serious and systematic violations of European citizens’ fundamental rights;
Amendment 355 #
2013/2188(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 b (new)
Paragraph 76 b (new)
76b. Condemns the attitude of the Member States to which Edward Snowden applied for asylum and which, under pressure from the US, resorted to legal quibbles in order to deny or ignore his requests, an attitude that is further illustrated by the shambolic but serious diplomatic incident last July, in which the aircraft carrying President Evo Morales of Bolivia was refused permission to overfly, or land or refuel in, certain European countries because they feared that Snowden was hiding on board;
Amendment 449 #
2013/2188(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 102 a (new)
Paragraph 102 a (new)
102a. Urges the US authorities – the President, Congress, the Senate, intelligence agencies, and the judiciary – to implement the reforms promised to the Europeans in the dialogues with the EU and its Member States concerning the guarantees and entitlements to be accorded to European citizens in order that they may be spared needless mass surveillance and that their rights to privacy and data protection may be respected, this being a sine qua non for any cooperation with the US as regards the exchange of personal data;
Amendment 471 #
2013/2188(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 109 a (new)
Paragraph 109 a (new)
109a. Calls on the Member States to throw full light on espionage programmes and operations affecting their own citizens, citizens of other Member States and non-EU countries, and European institutions; calls on the Commission to start an initiative with a view to ascertaining whether Articles 2 and 4 TEU have been infringed in the EU and to take such steps as might prove necessary, not least as regards the compatibility of those programmes and operations with the Internal Security Strategy;
Amendment 473 #
2013/2188(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 109 b (new)
Paragraph 109 b (new)
109b. Repeats the assertion in the resolution of 4 July 2013 that ‘in democratic and open states based on the rule of law, citizens have a right to know about serious violations of their fundamental rights and to denounce them, including those involving their own government’ and again ‘stresses the need for procedures allowing whistleblowers to unveil serious violations of fundamental rights and the need to provide such people with the necessary protection’, and calls on the Member States, therefore, to provide that protection;
Amendment 480 #
2013/2188(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 112
Paragraph 112
112. Calls on the Member States to develop a coherent and strong strategy within the United Nations, supporting in particular the resolution on ‘The right to privacy in the digital age’ initiated by Brazil and Germany, as adopted by the third UN General Assembly Committee (Human Rights Committee) on 27 November 2013, and to take any other bilateral, multilateral, or international initiative serving to safeguard the fundamental right to privacy and data protection and strengthen it at international level and in relation to state authorities and private companies;
Amendment 52 #
2013/2078(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the European Union is going through a period of economic and financial crisis, and also a democratic and constitutional crisis, caused by the irresponsibility of the banking, financial and political authorities, of which European citizens are the main victims, as demonstrated by recent events in certain Member States, and whereas these tensions have highlighted the lack of appropriate national and European instruments to cope with this crisis, as well as the difficulties in applying thea lack of political courage in applying the legal requirements and monitoring, evaluation and penalty mechanisms provided for in the existing treaties, in particular Articlerequirements under Articles 2 and 7 of the EU Treaty;
Amendment 183 #
2013/2078(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls for the respect of dignity at the end of life, notably by ensuring that decisions expressed in living wills are recognised and respected;
Amendment 200 #
2013/2078(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to grant immediately, as a matter of urgency, political asylum to Edward Snowden and appropriate protection of his right to life, given that his only ‘crime’ is to have revealed the serious violation of the fundamental rights of US and European citizens by intelligence services who eluded all democratic, parliamentary and judicial scrutiny;
Amendment 368 #
2013/2078(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Believes that the current policies on drugs should be urgently re-examined, as they have not reached their stated objectives, and that the current approach, which is based on criminalisation and imprisonment, leads only to further stigmatisation and marginalisation, as well as to an overload of the justice and prison system, instead of saving lives and helping drugs' abusers concretely; consequently calls for the revision – at national, EU and international level – of laws and policies on the basis of a more rational approach based on fundamental rights, medical care and harm reduction;
Amendment 7 #
2013/0812(COD)
Draft legislative resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the budgetary authorities to ensure that the additional costs relating to the change in the seat of CEPOL will be fully covered by the United Kingdom and will not to jeopardise the normal operational needs of CEPOL.
Amendment 8 #
Amendment 9 #
2013/0812(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) By letters of 12 December 2012 and 8 February 2013, the United Kingdom informed CEPOLIn violation of its legal obligations and commitments pursuant to both Council Decision 2005/681/JHA and the Headquarters Agreement concluded between the United Kingdom and CEPOL on 30 December 2004, by letters of 12 December 2012 and 8 February 2013, the United Kingdom informed CEPOL – instead of informing the Council, the European Parliament and the Commission - that it had unilaterally decided that it no longer wishesd to host the seat on its territory. Apart from hosting CEPOL, Bramshill also hosts a national police training site of the National Policing Improvement Agency which the United Kingdom decided to replace by a new College of Policing to be located elsewhere. The United Kingdom has therefore decided to close the national police training site at Bramshill and to sell the site indicating that the related costs were high and no alternative business model to run the site had emerged. The UK government did not provide reasons to justify why it could not relocate CEPOL somewhere else on the UK territory, instead of expelling it "de facto".
Amendment 23 #
2013/0812(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 f (new)
Recital 3 f (new)
(3f) The European Parliament in its resolution of 3 July 2013 on the situation of fundamental rights: standards and practices in Hungary (pursuant to the European Parliament resolution of 16 February 2012), has expressed a series of serious concerns on the situation in Hungary and issued a series of detailed recommendations to the Hungarian authorities on the fundamental law, on checks and balances, on the independence of the judiciary, on the electoral reform, on media and pluralism, on the respect for fundamental rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities, on freedom of religion or belief and recognition of churches. The resolution calls on the Hungarian authorities to inform Parliament, the Commission, the Presidencies of the Council and of the European Council, and the Council of Europe regarding implementation of such recommendations. In the absence of such information by the Hungarian authorities and of an evaluation by institutions involved on whether the Hungarian authorities have effectively followed up the EP and EU recommendations, it is not possible to decide for a relocation of CEPOL to Hungary, notably in consideration of the extremely short timeframe imposed by the Council for the adoption of the Regulation. For these reasons, an alternative relocation solution has to be found, or alternatively more time should be granted so to allow for such information to be provided, make an evaluation and take a decision;
Amendment 26 #
2013/0812(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Council Decision 2005/681/JHA
Article 4
Article 4
The seat of CEPOL shall be in Budapest, Hungarythe United Kingdom.
Amendment 14 #
2013/0304(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 a (new)
Article 1 – point 1 a (new)
Council Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA
Article 2-paragraph 3 (new)
Article 2-paragraph 3 (new)
(1a) In Article 2, the following paragraph is added after paragraph 2: '3. Member States may exclude from the scope of this Framework Decision other conducts described in paragraph 1 on the basis of their national law.'
Amendment 20 #
2013/0304(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA
Article 9 – paragraph 4
Article 9 – paragraph 4
4. By [52 years after entry into force of this Directive and every 52 years thereafter], the Commission shall assess the extent to which the Member States have taken the necessary measures to comply with this Framework Decision and publish a report, which shall also contain an evaluation of the effectiveness of laws and policies, alternative approaches, international developments and if necessary, proposals for review of the Framework Decision.
Amendment 276 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Welcomes the Commission's proposal for a permanent scoreboard on justice in all 27 EU Member States as put forward by Vice-President Reding, which shows that safeguarding the independence of the judiciary is a general concern of the EU, but calls for its enlargement to cover also criminal justice, fundamental rights, the Rule of law and democracy, as already requested by the European Parliament;
Amendment 308 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 d (new)
Paragraph 45 d (new)
45d. Expresses serious concern on the insertion of provisions in the Hungarian Constitution through the Fourth Amendment that enable the Parliament or local governments to criminalize homelessness, in contradiction to the Hungarian Constitutional Court previous judgment that had abolished, among others, similar provisions contained in the Petty Offence Act, stating that criminalizing the status of homelessness is unconstitutional, since it violates human dignity; calls on the Hungarian authorities to delete this provision from the Constitution, and calls on the Commission and the Council to do the same;
Amendment 321 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
47. Concludes – for the reasons explained above – that the systemic and general trend of repeatedly modifyingication of the constitutional and legal framework in very short time frames, and the content of such modifications, are incompatible with the values referred to in Article 2 TEU, Article 3, paragraph 1 and Article 6 TEU and deviate from the principles referred to in Article 4, paragraph 3 TEU; considers that -this constitutes a clear risk of a serious breach of the values referred to in Article 2 TEU and considers that, unless corrected in a timely and sufficient manner -, this trend will result in a clear risk of a serious breachwill lead to the existence of a serious and persistent breach by a Member State of the values referred to in Article 2 TEU;
Amendment 334 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. States that it is ready – and cCalls on the Council and Commission to also be prepared – in the event that Hungary does not implement the recommendations set out in paragraph 61, to take action under Article 7(12) TEU to determine the existence of a clear risk of a seriousserious and persistent breach by Hungary of the common values of the Union as set out in Article 2 TEU;
Amendment 363 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 – indent 5
Paragraph 60 – indent 5
– to create – as soon as risks of violations of Article 2 TEU are identified – an ‘'Article 2 TEU/Rule of Law Alarm Agenda’' to be dealt with by the Commission with exclusive priority and urgency, coordinated at the highest political level and fully taken into account in the various EU sectoral policies until full compliance with Article 2 TEU is restored and any risks of violation thereof are defused;
Amendment 367 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 – indent 8
Paragraph 60 – indent 8
– to updateimplement its 2003 communication on Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union (COM(2003) 606) and to draw up a detailed proposal for a swift and independent monitoring mechanism and an early warning system;
Amendment 368 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 – indent 8 a (new)
Paragraph 60 – indent 8 a (new)
- to draw up a detailed proposal for a swift and independent monitoring mechanism applying to all Member States, based on objective indicators developed on Article 2 TEU; an evaluation and early warning system; a list of proportionate and progressive measures and sanctions, including freezing or withdrawal of EU funds, to be taken in cases of clear risk of a serious breach, or existence of a serious and persistent breach, by a Member State of the values referred to in Article 2 TEU;
Amendment 372 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 – indent 13
Paragraph 60 – indent 13
– to address these issues in the framework of the implementation of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive in order to improve cooperation between regulatory bodies of the Member States and the Commission, bringing forward as soon as possible a legislative proposalrevision and aimed at reviewing Article 30 of that Directivendment of the Directive and notably of its Articles 29 and 30;
Amendment 488 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61 – indent 20
Paragraph 61 – indent 20
– to take positive action to ensure that the fundamental rights of all persons, including persons belonging to minorities, are respected; to review the definition of 'family' and the provision enabling the criminalization of homeless persons in the Fundamental Law;
Amendment 508 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68
Paragraph 68
68. Given the current institutional mechanism laid down in Article 7 TEU, reiterates the calls it made, in its resolution of 12 December 2012 on the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union (2010- 2011), for the establishment of a new mechanism (‘Copenhagen high-level group’which could take the form of a strengthened Commission-FRA monitoring, evaluation and recommendation exercise and a strengthened Commission-Council- European Parliament-Member States dialogue on measures to be taken, a 'Copenhagen high-level group', a "wise men group" as precedently foreseen by the Treaties, an Article 70 TFEU evaluation, etc) to ensure compliance by all Member States with the common values enshrined in Article 2 TEU;
Amendment 511 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. ReiteratBelieves that the setting- up of such a mechanism cshould fully involve the rethinking of the mandate of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, which should be enhanced to include regular monitoring of Member States' compliance with Article 2 of the TEUcarry out horizontal and regular monitoring and evaluation of EU and Member States' compliance with Article 2 of the TEU; reiterates its request to review the mandate of the FRA to strengthen its competences and powers;
Amendment 521 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. Instructs its committee responsible for the protection within the territory of the Union of citizens' rights, human rights and fundamental rights, and for determining clear risks of a serious breach by a Member State of the common principles, to submit a detailed proposal in the form of a report to the Conference of Presidents and to theCalls on the Council to act pursuant to Article 7(1) of the Treaty on European Union, Rule 74e of the European Parliament Rules of Procedure and on the basis of the present detailed proposal and specific report to Plenary;
Amendment 522 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 a (new)
Paragraph 72 a (new)
72a. invites also Member States and the European Commission, pursuant to Article 7(1) TEU to take up their responsibilities and issue reasoned proposals for the Council in the view of the determination that there is a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values referred to in Article 2, hear the Member State in question and address recommendations to it;
Amendment 523 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 b (new)
Paragraph 72 b (new)
72b. Instructs its committee responsible for the protection within the territory of the Union of citizens' rights, human rights and fundamental rights, and for determining clear risks of a serious breach by a Member State of the common principles, as well as its committee responsible for the determination of the existence of a serious and persistent breach by a Member State of the principles common to the Member States, to follow up the developments of the situation in Hungary;
Amendment 547 #
2012/2130(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 77
Paragraph 77
77. AskCalls the Conference of Presidents to activate the mechanism laid down inmmission and Member States to activate Article 7(12) TEU in case the replies from, shall the Hungarian authorities to the above- mentioned recommendations do not comply with the requirements of Article 2 TEUfail to comply with the requirements of Article 2 TEU and with the above mentioned concerns and recommendations;
Amendment 995 #
2012/0011(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 4
4. Consent shall not provide a legal basis for the processing, where there is a significant imbalance between the position of the data subject and the controller, or where the processing of data for a purpose is disproportionate in relation to the obtained consent.
Amendment 1104 #
2012/0011(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
If the data processed by a controller do not permit the controller to identify or single out a natural person, the controller shall not be obliged to acquire additional information in order to identify the data subject for the sole purpose of complying with any provision of this Regulation.
Amendment 1187 #
2012/0011(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) the specific purpose or purposes of the processing for which the personal data are intended, including in relation to the provisions of Article 6, and notably the contract terms and general conditions where the processing is based on point (b) of Article 6(1) and the legitimate interests pursued by the controller where the processing is based on point (f) of Article 6(1a) and (1b);
Amendment 1477 #
2012/0011(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 8 a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Where the conditions for the right to be forgotten and to erasure are met pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2, the data subject shall also have the right to request the rectification, erasure, deletion or delisting of personal data to any service of the Information Society, which provides tools enabling or facilitating research or access to data.
Amendment 1503 #
2012/0011(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1
Article 18 – paragraph 1
1. The data subject shall have the right, where personal data are processed by electronic means and in a structured and commonly used format, to obtain from the controller a copy of data undergoing processing in an electronic, interoperable and structured format which is commonly used and allows for further use by the data subject.
Amendment 1511 #
2012/0011(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 2
2. Where the data subject has provided the personal data and the processing is based on consent or on a contract, the data subject shall have the right to transmit those personal data and any other information provided by the data subject and retained by an automated processing system, into another one, in an electronic format which is commonly used, without hindrance from the controller from whom the personal data are withdrawn.
Amendment 1565 #
2012/0011(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) is carried out in the course ofnecessary for the entering into, or performance of, a contract, where the request for the entering into or the performance of the contract, lodged by the data subject, has been satisfied, or where suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's legitimate interests have been adduced, such as the right to obtain humanincluding the right to be provided with meaningful information about the logic used in the profiling, and the right to obtain human intervention, including an explanation of the decision reached after such intervention; or
Amendment 1575 #
2012/0011(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) is expressly authorized by a Union or Member State law and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguardprotects the data subject's legitimate interests and protects against possible discrimination resulting from measures described in paragraph 1; or
Amendment 1583 #
2012/0011(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) is based on the data subject's consent, subject to the conditions laid down in Article 7 and to suitable safeguards, including effective protection against possible discrimination resulting from measures described in paragraph 1.
Amendment 1651 #
2012/0011(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 21 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Legislative measures referred to in paragraph 1 shall neither permit or oblige private controllers to retain data additional to those strictly necessary for the original purpose.
Amendment 2393 #
2012/0011(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 41 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 41 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the rule of law, relevant legislation in force, both general and sectoral, including concerning public security, defence, national security and criminal law as well as the implementation of this legislation, the professional rules and security measures which are complied with in that country or by that international organisation, as well as effective and enforceable rights including effective administrative and judicial redress for data subjects, in particular for those data subjects residing in the Union whose personal data are being transferred;
Amendment 2501 #
2012/0011(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 44 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 44 – paragraph 1 – point h
Amendment 2524 #
2012/0011(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 44 – paragraph 6
Article 44 – paragraph 6
6. The controller or processor shall document the assessment as well as the appropriate safeguards adduced referred to in point (h) of paragraph 1 of this Article in the documentation referred to in Article 28 and shall informobtain prior approval of the transfer by the supervisory authority of the transfer.
Amendment 170 #
2012/0010(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Title 1
Title 1
Proposal for a DIRECTIVEREGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and the free movement of such data
Amendment 14 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas individuals must re-think their careers and widen as well as update their skills and knowledge at an ever faster rate, taking into account that there is a difference between vocational study programmes, where European harmonisation is feasible and desirable, and humanities courses, where there should continue to be substantial freedom and autonomy in study and research programmes with regard to the historical and cultural differences of European Union Member States and diversity of teaching in higher education institutions and their specific mission;
Amendment 29 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on higher education institutions to integrate with the aid of economic assistance and different study programmes, lifelong learning into their curricula and adapt to a student base that includes adults, non-traditional learners and full-time students who have to work while studying;
Amendment 39 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2.Invites higher education institutions to take into account the needs of professionals who need to update their skills in a short space of time, also through the organisation and fine-tuning of update courses that are accessible to all social groups;
Amendment 42 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on higher education institutions to uphold the spirit of autonomy in teaching and research while providing specific study programmes with the aim of meeting the needs of professionals who are requesting to update their skills;
Amendment 46 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3.Acknowledges the richness inherent in the wide variety of higher education institutions in Europe; calls on the Member States and these institutions to develop clear, integrated, pathways that allow learners to progress from other types of education into higher education and to change between different tracks and types of institutions;
Amendment 50 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4.Emphasises that academic staff and students, as well as their organisations and associations, need to be involved in the modernisation of higher education institutions; stresses that excellence in both research and teaching needs to be rewarded, without thereby penalising those higher education institutions – for example humanities faculties – that do not fall within the evaluation and performance criteria linked solely to the skills demanded by the market economy;
Amendment 61 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Endorses the Commission’s initiative to launch a multi-dimensional tool for ranking of higher education institutions based on characteristics such as the quality of teaching, regional engagement and knowledge transfer, without thereby establishing a classification of higher education institutions on the basis of non- homogeneous performance indicators between the various and specific training courses, in order to prevent public policy in the field of education favouring certain higher education institutions and to redistribute investment in a more equitable manner between all types of higher education teaching;
Amendment 71 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6.Demands that the attractiveness of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) for students and researchers from all over the world be promoted and that collaboration with non-EU countries in educational matters be strengthened, in particular with the countries that make up the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) or that directly border the EU, in order to turn the EHEA into a magnet for training and knowledge that is both macroregional and global;
Amendment 85 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8.Points out that public funding is of primary importance for the modernisation of the system of public higher education; emphasises that investment in higher education in Europe is crucial to overcoming the current economic crisis; calls on the Member States and higher education institutions to develop innovative funding mechanisms, with the aim of achieving a substantial increase in public investment, without which the quality of public higher education would be at risk;
Amendment 90 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9.Reiterates that higher education has the potential to promote social inclusion and upward social mobility; calls on Member States and higher education institutions to widenincentivise and actively promote equitable access forto students from all social backgrounds andies for all, irrespective of sex, ethnicity, religion, social background or other form of discrimination, in order to recognise multiculturalism and multilingualism as a fundamental value of the EU that needs to be fostered;
Amendment 106 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10.Calls for the promotion of best practices that help higher education institutions react efficiently to changes in labour market demands and facilitate young people’s transition from higher education to the labour market and calls on Member States and higher education institutions to establish a general framework – rules, responsibilities, political and educational objectives, quality and priority of training and research – in which to promote best practices and to react to the challenges of the communication society;
Amendment 111 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11.Welcomes the quality framework for traineeships that the Commission intends to propose; emphasises the success of the ‘Erasmus placements’ that give students the opportunity to gain work experience abroad, and insists that this action be continued and reinforced by suitable funding also under the new programme;
Amendment 112 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Emphasises that the importance of placements as a means of gaining practical and vocational experience must not underestimate the fact that students’ skills also include elements of knowledge and general culture that are not immediately applicable and transferable to the professional needs of the labour market;
Amendment 115 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12.Highlights the need to track graduates’ employment outcomes to measure how well higher education responds to labour market demands; welcomes therefore the Commission’s commitment to improving the availability of such data, with the principal aim of offering students information that is necessary and useful so they can orientate their study choices, and at the same time, giving higher education and research institutions the information to identify and subsequently develop programmes of study in terms of general knowledge as well as specific professional skills through lifelong learning, in a permanent dialogue with actors involved in the production of knowledge but also with society and the country;
Amendment 118 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13.Calls for the development of an international databasenk, similar to AlmaLaurea, which helps graduates to identify suitable job opportunities, thereby encouraging mobility, training, study and research opportunities, removing economic obstacles with bursaries and student loans to ensure real equality among students, and thereby encouraging mobility; reiterates the importance of correct communication in ensuring that this information can be easily accessed by students, recent graduates, the unemployed, jobseekers and employers;
Amendment 133 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15.Welcomes the Commission’s support for ‘Knowledge Alliances’ and ‘Sector Skills Alliances’ in which higher education institutions and businesses jointly develop curricula to address skills shortages; calls upon businesses and entrepreneurs, including small and medium-sized enterprises, actively to develop partnerships with higher education institutions; reiterates however that higher education institutions produce cultural content that not only translates into vocational skills but also general knowledge, in terms of intellectual experience of reality and common values by which citizens live;
Amendment 134 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16.Emphasises the need tousefulness of developing mechanisms and management strategies that facilitate the transfer of innovative ideas and research results into business and allow business to provide input to higher education regarding needs for skills and innovations, taking into account best practices from all over the world; shows how such a connection is likely to favour financially only those research and higher education institutions that specialise in innovation and technology at the expense of education linked purely to the humanities;
Amendment 152 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19.Emphasises the importance of language skills as a prerequisite for increased mobility within the EHEA and employability; supports the developreinforcement of language teaching within the EHEA as a precondition for the development of a true European citizenship based on multiculturalism and linguistic pluralism;
Amendment 157 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Calls on Member States, the EU and European higher education systems, to evaluate the possibility of promoting within the study cycle, a compulsory training period at a university in a Member State other than the one to which the student is affiliated;
Amendment 158 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19 b. Asks the Commission to propose the creation of Euro-Mediterranean Erasmus and Leonardi da Vinci programmes, aimed at promoting transnational mobility of students from both sides of the Mediterranean;
Amendment 159 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 c (new)
Paragraph 19 c (new)
19 c. Supports the proposal of the Commission to improve recognition of studies carried out abroad, reinforcing the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS); calls for an additional effort on the part of the EU and Member States towards more effective recognition and improved harmonisation also as regards academic qualifications;
Amendment 160 #
2011/2294(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20.Points out that Member States’ higher education systems face a double challenge: some will have to cope with high numbers of incoming students while others will suffer from a ‘brain drain’, as many talented young people choose to study and then settle abroadEmphasises the importance, on the part of higher education systems of each Member State, to guarantee higher quality teaching so that the increase in mobility opportunities for students does not coincide with the worsening of the ‘brain drain’ phenomenon, where in some countries of the EU it now represents a genuine social problem;
Amendment 2 #
2011/2246(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that free and independent media are one of the foundations of democracy and the rule of law; notes the role of free media and the free exchange of information in the democratic transformations taking place in non- democratic regimes;Recognising the importance of plurality of information sources for true media freedom, also calls on the Commission to promote a policy of supporting independent media whose activities are restricted by authoritarian regime, specifically periodicals and daily newspapers;
Amendment 27 #
2011/2246(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Strongly emphasisesConsiders also that the educational and cultural role of the public media; suggests that the commercial activities of the public media should solely complement the promotion of culture and their educational missionmission goes hand in hand with media pluralism and therefore calls on Member States to sustain information diversity by investing part of the revenue from the commercial activities of the public media in editorialising and independent daily newspapers and periodicals;
Amendment 39 #
2011/2246(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. NotStresses the dynamic changes in the media world that are redefining the arena of information exchange; draws attention to the fact that the development of the Internet is opening possibilities for unrestricted, individual expression by citizens of EU Member States and other countriesneed to close the existing gap in distribution and coverage of new media that separates the cities from the countryside, and emphasises the fact that major changes in media technology are not always actually and effectively accompanied by true freedom and democracy – the index compiled every year by Reporters Without Borders clearly indicates that even the countries of the European Union are not immune to violations of media freedom – and therefore calls on the Commission to ensure, at all times, freedom of expression and information for journalists and citizens alike;
Amendment 50 #
2011/2246(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to maintain a balance between protectReiterates the importance of revising copyright and prostecuting piracy and the freedom to share information online; stresses that control of the media and individual Internet users is only possible in connection with violations of the Member States’ laws, and cannot be a means of censorship and restricting freedom of speechon law in line with the development of new technology which, by focusing on information sharing, challenges the traditional concept of copyright, and hence calls on the Commission to promote a wide-ranging debate involving all stakeholders and particularly users.
Amendment 74 #
2011/2246(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to monitor, investigate and take action to prevent violations of freedom of speech, and given that safeguarding cultural diversity and diversity of the media must become a priority for European Union law, requests the Commission to submit a proposal for a directive safeguarding the pluralism of European media in accordance with previous parliamentary resolutions on press freedom;
Amendment 169 #
2011/2246(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Repeats its call on the Commission to guarantee the respect, protection and promotion of the fundamental right to freedom of expression and information, media freedom and pluralism in the EU and in its Member States by issuing a legislative initiative, to ensure the full application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, of the ECHR and of the related jurisprudence on positive obligations in the field of media; such initiative shall include provisions on transparency on media ownership, media concentration, conflict of interest rules to prevent undue influence from political and economic powers on the media, independence of media supervisory bodies; in this perspective, Calls on the Commission to institutionalise EU-level cooperation and coordination on the media, for instance by establishing a European regulators' group for audiovisual media services, and to harmonise the status of the national regulatory authorities provided for in Articles 29 and 30 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), ensuring that they are independent, impartial and transparent as regards their decision-making processes, the exercise of their powers and the monitoring process, and that they have appropriate sanctioning powers to ensure that their decisions are implemented;
Amendment 73 #
2011/2182(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to make a comparative study on European citizenship, national citizenship, electoral rights to identify differences, divergences and gaps that could impact unfairly or disproportionately certain categories of persons in the EU (stateless persons, EU and non-EU citizens, Roma, etc) and accompany it with appropriate recommendations to overcome discriminations that are contrary to the values of the EU;
Amendment 100 #
2011/2182(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Amendment 109 #
2011/2182(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Calls the Commission to come up urgently with an ambitious proposal on the full mutual recognition of the effects of civil status documents across the EU so as to finally overcome the legal and administrative obstacles citizens face when moving in the EU, including same sex spouses, different-sex and same-sex registered partners, or same-sex and different-sex partners in a durable attested relationship and their families, including their children;
Amendment 28 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the social dimension must be strengthened as a necessary condition for the development of the Bologna Process, especially as regards making the right to study economically accessible to all;
Amendment 34 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas universities, public administrations and enterprises must be strongly committed to the issue of employability; whereas academic learning is central to the full realisation of individual potential;
Amendment 45 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for a strengthening at EU level of support for the Bologna Process, in particular as regards the recognition of academic qualifications, and the promotion of mobility and employability, and the analysis of the state of implementation of the Bologna principles;
Amendment 52 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) is a major achievement, which must be enhanced from the point of view of creating and fostering genuine European citizenship; maintains that the extent of this achievement must translate into enhancement of the EHEA through the use of appropriate tools and procedures;
Amendment 55 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Maintains that the Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) have a key role to play in the Europe 2020 strategy and points out that the alliance between teaching and research is crucial inasmuch as it is a distinctive feature of European higher education;
Amendment 61 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the fact that the priorities set up within the Bologna process represent, mobility, recognition of qualifications, and employability, constitute the conditions necessary to guarantee that every student enrolled in a European university has the right to graduate and to see his qualification recognised in any EU country, with the goal of creatdeveloping a genuine European University Citizenship;
Amendment 80 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for a commitment on the part of universities to new teaching and training strategies aimed at a learning-centred university system; suggests that such strategies should take properly into account the importance of complementary forms of learning such as non-formal education systems;
Amendment 89 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the development of the universities’ ‘third mission’ to society, which should also be considered in connection with the multidimensional criteria to be devised for the purposes of classification and the recognition of excellence;
Amendment 96 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Member States to continue to play their leading role to the full in enhancing the quality of higher education and financing public universities;
Amendment 103 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the EU, the Member States and universities to improve information for students, academics and staff in order to foster structured mobility flows; calls for a strengthening of the services of Erasmus through better funding, improgenuine and effectived credit recognition and greater flexibility of the time-frame allowed;
Amendment 110 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the EU to take immigration from Africa, Asia, and Latin America more fully into account for the purpose of laying down rules providing for recognition of school qualifications obtained in countries of origin;
Amendment 117 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Asks the EU, in order to guarantee mutual trust, to consolidate a system of quality assurance at both European and Member State level; asks the Member States to implement their national qualification assurance systems in connection with the European Standards and Guidelines on Quality Assurance (ESG); calls on Member States to sign up to the European Quality Assurance Register and to strengthen the role of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA);
Amendment 128 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for strong financial support for agreements on common core curricula, which guarantee well defined learning outcomes, inter alia by exploring the methodology approach developed by Tuning and through the experience of the ‘Tuning Academy’; calls for particular attention to be paid to the specific problems of humanities curricula; nature of humanities curricula in order to determine which specific knowledge and skills should be covered by degree courses so as to encourage learning in a form combining measurable and impartable general skills (reflected in the ability to use knowledge) and teaching and research as original critical analysis; maintains that, as well as knowledge of the basic material, every programme in every subject should provide cross-cutting key competences such as critical thinking, communication, and entrepreneurial skills;
Amendment 134 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Asks for further support for national and European measures to guarantee equitable inclusion and fair access for students from under-represented groupto study for all students, in particular those who belong to under-represented groups, so as to ensure that education and training are independent of socio-economic factors which cause disadvantages and that teaching meets individual learning needs;
Amendment 180 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Member States and the EU to determine whether courses of study could include a compulsory training period to be completed at a university in a Member State other than the student’s home country;
Amendment 184 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Proposes that the recognition of study credits should be a compulsory element in all student exchanges supported by EU funding so as to strengthen the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System;
Amendment 189 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19. Calls for cooperation among universities to be organised more systematically and strengthened so as to increase the impact on higher education institutions and systems for the benefit of students and staff;
Amendment 209 #
2011/2180(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Points to the need to provide better information about the Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) by means of a comprehensive, effective European communication policy aimed at making universities more attractive within and outside Europe;
Amendment 147 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission to fully respect the independence and the competences of the FRA and to refrain from exerting undue pressures on the FRA in relation to its opinions on the Commission proposals, as happened recently in relation to the opinion on jurisdiction and applicable law for the property effects of marriages and registered partnerships;
Amendment 149 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Calls on the FRA to ensure that NGOs that do not respect fundamental rights, tolerance, equality and non- discrimination and promote intolerance and discrimination are excluded from the FRA fundamental rights platform and believes that transparency should be required in relation to the way these organizations are funded and on their activities;
Amendment 159 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Calls on the Commission to propose a review of the Framework Decision to include other forms of bias-motivated crime, including on grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression;
Amendment 186 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on Member States to protect freedom of religion or belief, including the freedom of those without a religion not to suffer discrimination as a result of excessive exemptions for religions from laws on equality and non-discrimination;
Amendment 275 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on Member States who have adopted legislation on same-sex partnerships to recognise provisions with similar effects adopted by other Member States and calls on the Commission to issue a proposal with this aim; recalls the Member States’ obligation to fully implement Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States, including for same-sex couples and their children; welcomes the fact that more and more Member States have introduced and/or adapted their laws on cohabitation, civil partnership and marriage to overcome the discriminations based on sexual orientation lived by same- sex couples and their children and calls on other Member States to introduce similar laws;
Amendment 279 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls on the Commission and the Council to intervene more forcefully against homophobia, violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation, including by calling Member States’ mayors and the police to protect freedom of expression and demonstration on the occasion of LGBTI prides and by officially granting support to them; calls on the Commission to finally follow up the repeated calls by the European Parliament and NGOs and issue as a matter of urgency the EU Roadmap for equality on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, to be launched at the latest in 2013;
Amendment 389 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)
Paragraph 40 a (new)
40a. Calls on the EU and Member States to ensure that impunity in enquiries on paedophilia is not tolerated, including when practised by priests, and that diplomatic immunity is waived;
Amendment 414 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 a (new)
Paragraph 43 a (new)
43a. Expresses concern in relation to the respect of fair trial in the EU and its Member States and notably in relation to recent proposals on ‘secret evidence’ allowing the government to use evidence against individuals which they would be unable to challenge, or even to see, which would be in striking contradiction with European fundamental rights and standards;
Amendment 417 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 b (new)
Paragraph 43 b (new)
43b. Calls Member States to make sure extradition to third countries does not infringe fundamental rights and invites them to review their international treaties; expresses concern on the possible extradition of the 23-year-old Richard O’Dwyer from the UK to the US for copyright infringement and calls for a solution to be found to ensure that his fundamental rights are not violated;
Amendment 421 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 c (new)
Paragraph 43 c (new)
43c. Expresses concern for the case of Julian Assange and calls the UK authorities to review their position on his extradition to Sweden, the Swedish authorities to text the credibility of the accusers and in any case not to extradite him to the US, where Assange could undergo a trial and treatment which do not guarantee fundamental rights as protected by European standards, potentially including also a secret trial and death penalty;
Amendment 434 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)
Paragraph 44 a (new)
44a. Is extremely worried at the situation of democracy, rule of law, checks and balances, media and fundamental rights in some of the Member States and notably at the practice by those in power of selecting, appointing or firing persons for independent positions such as Constitutional Courts, the judiciary, public broadcasting media heads and media regulatory bodies, ombudsmen or commissioners, on the basis of mere party politics instead of competence, experience and independence;
Amendment 444 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 a (new)
Paragraph 45 a (new)
45a. Calls the Commission to entrust the FRA with the task of issuing an yearly report monitoring the situation of media freedom and pluralism in the European Union;
Amendment 451 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 c (new)
Paragraph 45 c (new)
45c. Calls for the strengthening of democratic and judicial oversight of secret services at national level, which is extremely urgent and necessary, as demonstrated by their involvement with extraordinary renditions and with CIA flights and prisons and as recent worrying events in Germany and France, among others, have shown; calls for the EU to strengthen its oversight in relation to the collaboration at European level between these agencies, including via EU bodies, and between these and third states;
Amendment 453 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 d (new)
Paragraph 45 d (new)
45d. Expresses concern in relation to the events of disproportionate repression by the police in Member States on the occasion of public events and demonstrations, as confirmed by the recent Italian judgment on the G8 in Genoa, and by other reports by NGOs, citizens and media involving many EU Member States; calls for Member States to make sure that democratic and judicial oversight of law enforcement agencies and personnel is strengthened, accountability is ensured and that impunity has no place in Europe, notably when acts of torture or inhuman or degrading treatments are committed;
Amendment 455 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 e (new)
Paragraph 45 e (new)
45e. Calls for the respect of dignity at the end of life, notably by ensuring that decisions expressed in living wills are recognised and respected;
Amendment 456 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 f (new)
Paragraph 45 f (new)
45f. Believes that current policies on drugs have not reached their stated objectives and that the current prohibitionist approach based on criminalization and imprisonment creates stigmatization and marginalization; calls for the revision, at national, European and international level, of laws and policies on drugs on the basis of a new alternative approach based on fundamental rights, medical care and harm reduction;
Amendment 457 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 g (new)
Paragraph 45 g (new)
45g. Expresses ongoing concern on the situation in Hungary, notably in relation to the new Constitution, government control on the media and the judiciary, restrictions to LGBTI rights and freedom of expression, discrimination among religious groups and of Roma and other minority groups, criminalization of homeless persons, the situation in the educational system and measures affecting students, the rise in extremism, racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, as well as raising tensions with neighbouring states;
Amendment 458 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 h (new)
Paragraph 45 h (new)
45h. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to abrogate or review the rules on liquids and body scanners and calls the Commission to bring infringement proceedings against those Member states violating EU regulations protecting citizens’ fundamental rights on the matter;
Amendment 459 #
2011/2069(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 i (new)
Paragraph 45 i (new)
45i. Calls on EU institutions and Member States to ensure that fundamental rights, democracy, the rule of law and the principle of secularism and neutrality of the State are protected from fundamentalist religious views; calls for these values to be upheld in relations with religious communities and for discrimination in treatment among different religions enacted by the State to be overcome; expresses concern in relation to the Holy See’s use of diplomatic immunity in relation to cases of paedophilia, the lack of cooperation on other judicial cases such as the dubious financial operations by its IOR related to money-laundering, the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi and the fate of those arrested in the so-called ‘Vatican leaks’ case; calls on the EU and Member States to take action on these issues;
Amendment 91 #
2011/2025(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines, furthermore, the importance of improving means of exercising the rights of access, rectification, erasure and blocking of data, and of clarifying the ‘right to be forgotten’; believes that citizens should be provided with the possibility to exercise these rights easily, for instance by making a single request to a national data protection authority which should then follow it up in cooperation with other data protection authorities at national and European level and provide an answer;
Amendment 142 #
2011/2025(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls the Commission to make an evaluation on the possibility to create of a European Data Protection Authority charged with monitoring, analysis, recommendation and enforcement of data protection and privacy rights of persons in the EU and which could bring together the current different bodies charged with data protection, such as the Joint Supervisory Body, Article 29 Working Party, EDPS, and liaise institutionally with national data protection authorities;
Amendment 145 #
2011/2025(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to streamline and strengthen currbring more clarity in relation to international data transfers and agreements, on their extent, procedures for international data transfers, and to define core EU data protection aspects to be used for all types of international agreementurposes, duration, further transfers, application and evaluation, etc, notably in relation to PNR and TFTP, with the aim to ensure that data is not transferred for profiling operations or in violation of EU data protection principles, or to countries which do not respect fundamental rights, democracy and the rule of law, which are essential values upon which the EU is founded on;
Amendment 155 #
2011/2025(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls the Commission and the Council to formally request to third countries and notably to the US if they have requested subpoenas or anyway access or treat personal data of EU citizens held by private companies, notably of credit card companies such as Visa, Master Card, American Express, telecom companies, internet companies and services such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype, post and mail companies such as Fedex, etc; calls the Commission to formally request to Member States to provide detailed information on bilateral agreements in the field of data exchange with third countries, and to assess the compatibility of these agreements with EU data protection rules;
Amendment 17 #
2011/0405(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 a (new)
Recital 21 a (new)
(21a) The European Union, in its relations with third countries, promotes the values set out in the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity of 2 November 2001, the latter being regarded as a common heritage and source of innovation and creativity, in addition to being a powerful driver of the economic, civil and moral development of society.
Amendment 27 #
2011/0405(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
(ca) promoting the protection of shared tangible and intangible cultural heritage, also by guaranteeing adequate funding and resources for projects such as Euromed Heritage; encouraging the development of joint education and training programmes with partner countries, which should take into greater account the right to equitable access to education for all and aim to combat the serious problem of the high drop-out rate among young people;
Amendment 57 #
2011/0217(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The rights inherent to citizenship of the Union are incorporated in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. According to the Charter's Preamble, the Union ‘places the individual at the heart of its activities, by establishing a citizenship of the Union and by creating an area of freedom, security and justice’. Chapter V of the Charter sets down ‘Citizens’ rights‘, including, in its Article 45, the right of every citizen of the Union to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States. The Charter furthermore prohibits any discrimination in its Article 21.
Amendment 79 #
2011/0217(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Despite the fact that the right to free movement and residence is firmly anchored in primary Union law and substantially developed in secondary law, a gap still remains between the applicable legal rules and the reality confronting citizens when they seek to exercise this right in practice. Aside from an uncertainty over the advantages of being mobile, Union citizens perceiveexercising their right to free movement still experience violations of their rights and discriminations, while those wanting to exercise it are faced with too many practical obstacles still existing with regard to living and working elsewhere in the Union.
Amendment 88 #
2011/0217(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) In the EU Citizenship Report 2010 ‘Dismantling the obstacles to EU citizens’ rights‘, the Commission addressed the main violations, discriminations and obstacles which citizens still encounter in their daily lives when they seek to exercise their rights as Union citizens, in particular in cross-border situations and outlined 25 concrete actions to remove these obstacles. One of the obstacles identified in this context was lack of information. The Commission concluded, in the EU Citizenship Report 2010, that Union citizens are prevented from enjoying their rights because they lack awareness of them and announced its intention to step up the dissemination of information to Union citizens about their rights, in particular about their right to free movement.
Amendment 90 #
2011/0217(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Given that the right to free movement significantly improves individuals' lives, it is vital that information about the existence of this right and, the conditions for exercising it and the ways to have it upheld is available as broadly as possible. As a considerable number of Union citizens exercise this right and since all Union citizens are potential beneficiaries of this righit, awareness raising efforts should be made across the Union.
Amendment 103 #
2011/0217(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) It is also essential to provide citizens with information on their rights in relation to the recognition of their marriage, union or cohabitation in other Member States, since the lack of recognition represents a violation of their fundamental rights and of the right to free movement, notably for same-sex couples, which is prohibited by Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Amendment 122 #
2011/0217(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – indent 1
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – indent 1
– to raise Union citizens' awareness of their right to move and reside freely within the European Union and more generally the rights guaranteed to Union citizens in cross-border situations, including their right to participate in the democratic life of the Union, without discrimination;
Amendment 131 #
2011/0217(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – indent 3 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – indent 3 a (new)
– to strengthen the respect, protection and promotion of citizens' rights, by identifying and removing discriminations prohibited by Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and violations and obstacles prohibited by Union law, as well as fighting against intolerance and prejudice and notably racism, xenophobia, anti-gypsism, homophobia, anti-semitism, etc.
Amendment 142 #
2011/0217(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 3
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 3
– conferences and events to promote debate and raise awareness of the importance and benefits of the right to free movement and residence and more generally citizens' rights as Union citizens, without discrimination;
Amendment 144 #
2011/0217(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 4
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 4
– use of the existing multilingual participatory tools to stimulate citizens' contributions in giving tangible effect to their rights, for instance by allowing citizens to signal violations, obstacles and discriminations in relation to their rights and ensure a follow up by Union institutions and Member States, and more generally in achieving the objectives of the European Year;
Amendment 149 #
2011/0217(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 6
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 6
– strengthening of the role and visibility of problem solving tools, such as SOLVIT, to allow Union citizens to better make use of and defend their rights, defend their rights and have their rights respected, protected and promoted by Union institutions and Member States, by ensuring a proper legal and political follow up.
Amendment 6 #
2011/0167(NLE)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines, at the same time, that it is crucial to strike the appropriate balance between enforcement of IPRs and fundamental rights such as freedom of expression, the right to privacy and protection of personal data, the right to due process and confidentiality of communications, the right to due process -notably the presumption of innocence and effective judicial proteciton1 - and recalls the case- law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) as regards this fair balance,; ______________ 1 See also in this sense the Opinion of the EDPS of 24 April 2012 <http://www.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/webdav/site/my Site/shared/Documents/Consultation/Opinions/2012/12- 04-24_ACTA_EN.pdf.
Amendment 32 #
2011/0167(NLE)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers that when fundamental rights are at stake ambiguity must be avoided and at the least reduced to a minimumthere shall be no place for any ambiguity; recalls that the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence affirms that any limitation to the fundamental rights and freedoms foreseen by law must be foreseeable in its effects, clear and precise and accessible, as well as necessary in a democratic society and proportionate to the aims pursued; underlines that ACTA might create a legal basis for third countries controls and subsequent measures, notably at the borders, on Union citizens travelling outside of the Union, as well as on their properties; moreover, and without assigning any wrongful intentions ("procès d'intention") to the ACTA implementation measures, takes the view that in the current state of affairs precaution should be exercised as regards ACTA in light of the serious and remaining question-marks surrounding the balance reached within the agreement between IPRs and other core fundamental rights and its level of legal certainty.;
Amendment 39 #
2011/0167(NLE)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Shares the concerns expressed by the EDPS in its opinion on ACTA, notably in relation to the unclear scope, the vague notion of "competent authority", the processing of personal data by ISPs through voluntary enforcement cooperation measures and the lack of appropriate safeguards in relation to fundamental rights;
Amendment 40 #
2011/0167(NLE)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Is of the opinion that ACTA does not comply with the rights enshrined in the Charter;
Amendment 41 #
2011/0167(NLE)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Invites the Committee on International Trade, as the committee responsible, to recommend that Parliament declines to consent to the conclusion of ACTA;
Amendment 172 #
2011/0129(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17a) Gender-based violence refers to violence that is directed against a person because of his or her gender, gender identity or gender expression. It is a form of violence that affects women disproportionately and it may be interrelated but it is not limited to cases of violence in close relationship, sexual violence (both sexual assault and harassment), sexual trafficking and slavery, intimate relationship violence and other harmful practices such as forced marriages and female genital mutilation. Homophobic and transphobic attacks have also been defined as a form of gender-based violence. Research shows that one-fifth to one-quarter of all women have experienced physical violence at least once during their adult lives and more than one-tenth have suffered sexual violence involving the use of force. In this perspective, it is crucial to criminalise all forms of gender-based violence and provide victims thereof with special prevention, protection and remedies measures.
Amendment 180 #
2011/0129(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) Beyond these categories, but again based on personal characteristics and the crime, any person could be vulnerable and could have specific needs. Only through individual assessments, carried out at the earliest opportunity by those in a position to make recommendations on protection measures, can such vulnerabilities be effectively identified. The assessment should in particular take into account age, gender, and gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, state of health, disability, communication difficulties, relationship to or dependence on the suspected or accused person, previous experience of crime, the type or nature of the crime such as organised crime, terrorism, or bias crimes and whether the victim is a foreign victim. Victims of terrorism require particular attention in any assessment given the varying nature of such acts ranging from mass acts of terrorism to targeted terrorism against individuals.
Amendment 209 #
2011/0129(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 25 a (new)
Recital 25 a (new)
(25a) Further victimisation, intimidation and discrimination can occur, where victims are targeted for abuse due to their personal characteristics such as race, religion, beliefs, nationality, age, sexual orientation, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression or social background, which is a leading cause of the high rate of unreported crime cases. Low confidence in the criminal justice system, difficulties in understanding the system for making a complaint and fear of experiencing unacceptable treatment by the authorities through not being believed, or due to a lack of respect and recognition towards the victim are further reasons behind unreported crime cases. In order to encourage and facilitate reporting and to allow victims to break the cycle of repeat victimisation, it is imperative that reliable support services are available to victims and that Member States’ authorities are prepared to respond to victims’ reports in a respectful, considerate, equal and professional manner. This requires sufficient training and an appropriate level of specialisation on the side of all relevant authorities, as well as regulations that pay sufficient attention to the rights of victims, including the right to be protected against intimidation and secondary victimisation. Measures may also include enabling third party reporting and empowering victim support organisations to engage in proceedings on behalf of victims as well as allowing the use of communication technologies, such as e-mail or website forms, for filing complaints.
Amendment 247 #
2011/0129(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point g a (new)
Article 2 – point g a (new)
(ga) ‘gender-based violence’ means violence that is directed against a person because of his or her gender, gender identity or gender expression;
Amendment 331 #
2011/0129(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall promotensure the setting up or development of specialist support services, including specialist support services for all victims with special needs identified according to Article 18, including victims of gender-based violence, victims of violence in close relationships and their family members, in addition to general victim support services.
Amendment 402 #
2011/0129(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that measures are available to protect the safety and dignity of victims and their family members from retaliation, intimidation, repeat or further victimisation from their first contact with a competent authority, during and after the conclusion of criminal proceedings. When requested by the victims, these measures shall include non disclosure of the personal characteristics taken into account in the individual assessment referred to in Article 18.
Amendment 451 #
2011/0129(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 18 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Member States shall ensure that the individual assessments referred to in paragraphs 3 and 4 are carried out at regular intervals throughout the criminal proceedings in order to take account of any changes in the personal characteristics or circumstances, needs and wishes of victims. Individual assessments shall take into account the following factors: - the personal characteristics of the victim such as age, gender, and gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, health, disability, legal status, communication difficulties, relationship to or dependence on the suspected or accused person, previous experience of crime; - the type or nature of the crime such as the fact it is committed with a bias or discriminatory motive relating to the victim's personal characteristics such as age, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, health, disability, legal status, communication difficulties, relationship to or dependence on the suspected or accused person, previous experience of crime; - the circumstances of the crime such as the fact whether a person is victimised abroad; - the type or nature of the crime such as whether exploitation or physical or sexual violence has been used; - the wishes of the victim with special needs including whether they do not wish to benefit from special measures.
Amendment 509 #
2011/0129(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 1
Article 24 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that police, prosecutors and, court staff, lawyers and any other officials likely to come into contact with victims receive both general and specialist training to a level appropriate to their contact with victims to sensitise them to the needs of victims and to deal with them in an impartial, respectful and professional manner. These training schemes shall include the respective contribution of all officials to the identification of victims with special needs provided for in article 18.
Amendment 529 #
2011/0129(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 2
Article 25 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall ensure that those authorities working with or providing support to victims work together to ensure a co-ordinated response to victims, to ensure the identification of victims with special needs as provided for in article 18, to facilitate the reporting of criminal offences and to minimise the negative impact of the crime, the risks of secondary and repeat victimisation and the burden on the victim due to interactions between the victim and criminal justice agencies.
Amendment 39 #
Amendment 14 #
2010/2154(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that only few Member States have carried out trials of body scanners1 and many of these have abandoned body scanners subsequently, due to the high costs, delays and inefficacy2, while most of the Member States have not deployed body scanners or have opposed or affirmed that they do not intend to buy, deploy and use of body scanners; 1 UK, NL, DE, DK. 2 IT and FIN.
Amendment 15 #
2010/2154(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Notes that, regardless of the inclusion of body scanners in the list of methods of screening allowed, those Member States already using body scanners are bound to ensure that citizens’ fundamental rights enshrined in the ECHR and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights are respected, protected and promoted, notably the right to privacy and to health, as furthermore requested by the European Parliament;
Amendment 16 #
2010/2154(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Highlights that those Member States that used body scanners have excluded some categories of vulnerable persons, such as children, pregnant woman, elderly people and persons with disabilities or with implanted medical devices and workers who are frequently exposed to radiations, and that common rules in this field shall be applied at EU level when Member States deploy and use body scanners;
Amendment 17 #
2010/2154(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Believes that body scanners should only be used by those Member States that decided or will decide to deploy them, on an ad hoc basis, and for those flights were there are reasons to believe that security is at stake, for instance on the basis of intelligence information, of specific risks or threats, of the country of destination of the flights (if the country of destination requested body scanning of the passengers for specific security reasons) or of origin (if the country of origin is targeted by terrorist groups); believes that body scanners should not be used for intra-EU flights;
Amendment 18 #
2010/2154(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Amendment 19 #
2010/2154(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2f. Calls the Commission not to add body scanners to the list of authorised screening methods, as this would create an incentive for the use of body scanners at national level, but calls it to issue instead binding recommendations to Member States in relation to the rules for the use of body scanners, shall they decide to continue trials or apply more stringent measures in relation to the use of body scanners in aviation security;
Amendment 20 #
2010/2154(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2g. Calls for a in depth analysis, evaluation and review of current security situation and procedures at airports, including the liquids regulation, and for an anticipation of the timetable related to the suspension of the ban on liquids and of the conditions foreseen in relation to the availability of screening technologies, while questioning the efficacy and high costs of the future procedures for systematic screening of liquids;
Amendment 21 #
2010/2154(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 h (new)
Paragraph 2 h (new)
2h. Believes that the comitology procedure in the aviation security sector, at least for measures having an impact on citizens' rights, is inappropriate and calls for the EP to be fully involved through co- decision;
Amendment 26 #
2010/2154(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. PoUnderlintes to the fact that the use of body scanners is not restricted only to airports but also to other public places; urges therefore that the Commission present a proposal coverhat the obligation to respect the fundamental rights to privacy, data protection and health in relation to the use of body scanners applies wherever these are used and also outside of airports and in general in all public places where body scanners are or could be deployed and consequently calls on the Commission to monitor Member States practices ing the deployment and use of security scanners in places other than airportsis respect and ensure that the upcoming rules on the protection of citizens' rights to privacy, data protection, heath, non-discrimination are applied whenever body scanners are used;
Amendment 84 #
2010/2154(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Expects that the Commission will base its proposal on extensive independent and objective scientific information gathered among EU experts in the field and without interferences from the industry sector, Member States governments and third countries;
Amendment 89 #
2010/2154(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls the Commission, the Council and Committee responsible to substitute the words ‘security scanner(s)’ with the words ‘body scanner(s)’ where the scanners are used to screen persons, including in the title of the report, hereby avoiding inappropriate and unnecessary confusions and ambiguities;
Amendment 8 #
2009/2241(INI)
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 their 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; underlines in this context that it will be necessary to ensure that Member States' courts refer cases to the ECJ when there is an arguable fundamental rights issue at hand;
Amendment 12 #
2009/2241(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – introductory words
Paragraph 7 – introductory words
7. Points out that there are a number of legal, technical and institutional issues which are still outstanding and which will have to be addressed in the mandate to be adopted under Article 218 TFEU, as well as in the negotiations with the Council of Europe on accession to the ECHR. The most sensitive of them includeInvites the Commission and the Council to make sure that:
Amendment 13 #
2009/2241(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 1
Paragraph 7 – indent 1
– the fact that the scope of the accession ishould be precisely defined in the mandate; the EU should also accede, at the least,all accede 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 corpuor the Charter of Fundamental Rights, thus forming part of the EU’s human rights corpus. In this regard, also invites Member States to speed up their signature and ratification - as well as to review their declarations and reserves - in relation to the ECHR and its Protocols. Furthermore, the accession to the revised European Social Charter should be taken into consideratioforeseen;
Amendment 16 #
2009/2241(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 2
Paragraph 7 – indent 2
– the need for the EU’sEU is properly representationed and participationes in the Council of Europe’s bodies to be clarified; although with the accession to the ECHR the EU will not become a member of the Council of Europe, it shouldall be represented on the same footing as the other parties on all those bodies where as a result of the accession EU matters are affected, while the European Parliament should be represented in the procedure to elect a judge to the ECtHR; such as the Council of Ministers at least when supervising the execution of judgements, and at least the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), the Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) and the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH), while the European Parliament shall be called to give its consent to the nomination of the three EU candidates for the post of judge in the ECtHR and be represented in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, namely on the occasion of the election of the EU judge to the ECtHR; the EU permanent, full- time judge shall also participate in the ECtHR on an equal footing, while a co- respondent mechanism has to be set so as to comply with the principle of autonomous interpretation of EU law;
Amendment 18 #
2009/2241(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 3
Paragraph 7 – indent 3
– the need for relations between the ECJ and the ECtHR to bare refined, leaving the two courts the necessary flexibility to determine how best to cooperate in order to achieve an enhanced regular dialogue. This could, in addition, contribute to the development of the abovementioned case- law system;
Amendment 20 #
2009/2241(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 4
Paragraph 7 – indent 4
– the need for the problems faced by the ECtHR to bare dealt with and relieved through EU support; EU accession to the ECHR, rather than diminishing its effectiveness, should lead to an improved system of implementation of the subsidiarity principle, and thus to fewer repetitivprompt and full execution of ECtHR judgments by the Member States and the EU by ensuring that, on the basis of the applications at of the ECtHR; this in turn would relieve the burden on the ECtHR itself. It is of the utmost importance that the right balance should be struck between provision of access to the additional remedy and the needsubsidiarity principle, Member States and EU institutions properly abide to the human rights obligations they have contracted to by accessing the ECHR and address structural problems through reforms, hereby leading to fewer and less repetitive applications at the ECtHR; this in turn would relieve the burden on the ECtHR itself, so as to avoid overloading of the ECtHR. Welcomes the fact, therefore, that the accession of the EU will coincide with the reform of the ECtHR;
Amendment 23 #
2009/2241(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that, as the accession to the ECHR concerns not only the EU institutions, but also the Union’s citizens, the European Parliament should be consulted and involved throughout the negotiation process, and should be associated and immediately and fully informed at all stages of the negotiations, as provided for in Article 218(10) TEU;
Amendment 128 #
2009/2134(INI)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – indent 11 a (new)
– anyone who has been convicted, by means of a judgment that has the force of res judicata, of corruption, abuse of public office, incitement to racism, crimes relating to involvement with mafia groups, organised crime or terrorism, or sexual abuse;
Amendment 129 #
2009/2134(INI)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – indent 11 b (new)
– anyone who has already served three full, but not necessarily consecutive, terms as a member of the European Parliament;
Amendment 63 #
2009/0164(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point d – subparagraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point d – subparagraph 2
Depending on the circumstances in the country of origin, a particular social group mightshall include a group based on a common characteristic of sexual orientation. Sexual orientation cannot be understood to include acts considered to be criminal in accordance with national law of the Member States. Gender related aspects shouldGender related aspects, including gender identity, shall be given due consideration for the purposes of determining membership of a particular social group or identifying a characteristic of such a group.