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8 Amendments of Raffaele FITTO related to 2016/0131(COD)

Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
(1) The objective of the Union's policy on asylum is to develop and establish a Common European Asylum System (CEAS), consistent with the values and humanitarian tradition of the European Union and governed by the principle of subsidiarity, solidarity and fair sharing of responsibility.
2016/10/31
Committee: AFET
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) The tasks of the European Asylum Support Office should be expandtargeted, and to reflect those changes, it should be renamed European Union Agency for Asylum. The Agency should be a centre of expertise and its main role should be to strengthen practical cooperation and information exchange among Member States on asylum, promote Union law and operational standards to ensure a high degree of uniformity as regards asylum procedures, reception conditions and the assessment of protection needs across the Union, monitor the operationalincreased operational and technical support to Member States for the management of the asylum and trechnical application of Union law and standards as regards asylum, support the Dublin system and provide increased operational and technical support to Member States for the management of the asylum and reception systems, in particular those whose systems are subject to disproportionate pressureeption systems, in particular those whose systems are subject to disproportionate pressure, increased coordination between Frontex and Member States with a view to acting more effectively in the protection of the European Union’s external borders and with a view to preventing unmanageable situations of migratory pressure, strengthening the combating of trafficking in human beings and managing secondary movements in a regulated way.
2016/10/31
Committee: AFET
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
(12) The common EU list of safe countries of origin established by Regulation (EU) No XXX/XXX9 should be regularly reviewed by the Commission. Having regard to the Agency's expertise, it should assist the Commission in reviewing that list. The Agency should also, at the request of the Commission, provide it with information on specific third countries which, in accordance with specific criteria, could be included in the common EU list of safe countries of origin, and on third countries designated as safe countries of origin or safe third countries or to which the concepts of safe third country, first country of asylum or European safe third country by Member States apply. ___________________ 9OJ L […]. 9 OJ L […].
2016/10/31
Committee: AFET
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
(13) To ensure a high degree of uniformity as regards asylum procedures, reception conditions and the assessment of protection needs across the Union, the Agency should organise and coordinate activities promoting Union law. For that purpose, the Agency should assist Member States by developproposing operational standards and indicators for monitoring compliance with those standards. The Agency should also develop guidelines on asylum-related matters and should enable the exchange of best practices among Member States.
2016/10/31
Committee: AFET
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
(19) For Member States that are faced with specific and disproportionate pressure on their asylum and reception systems due, in particular, to their geographical or demographic situation, particularly for Italy and Greece, the European Union Agency for Asylum should support the development of solidarity withinbetween the countries of the Union and assist in the better relocation of beneficiaries of international protection among Member States, while ensuring that asylum and reception systems are not abused. With a view to managing and preventing further collapses of the system, the European Union Agency for Asylum should draw a clear distinction between the status of economic migrant and the status of beneficiary of international protection, and should be clear in making its selection.
2016/10/31
Committee: AFET
Amendment 90 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
(23) The European Union Agency for Asylum should cooperate with national and international organisations, in particular the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in matters covered by this Regulation in the framework of working arrangements so as to benefit from their expertise and support. To that end, the roles of UNHCR and the other relevant international organisations should be fully recognised and those organisations should be involved in the work of the Agency. The working arrangements should receive the Commission's prior approval.
2016/10/31
Committee: AFET
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point l
(l) monitor and assess the implementation of the CEAS as well asin relation to the asylum and reception systems of Member States, which should be supported at the request of any Member State;
2016/10/31
Committee: AFET
Amendment 250 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 1
1. Where the asylum and reception systems of a Member State are subject to disproportionate pressure that places exceptionally heavy and urgent demands on those systems, the Agency shall, at the request of the Member State concerned or on its own initiative, organise and coordinate a comprehensive set of operational and technical measures as referred to in Article 16 and deploy experts from the asylum intervention pool referred to in Article 18 and experts from its own staff to reinforce the asylum and reception systems within a short period of time.
2016/10/31
Committee: AFET