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2 Amendments of Kathalijne Maria BUITENWEG related to 2007/0236(CNS)

Amendment 22 #

Recital 11 a (new)
(11a) The failure of the Council to agree on procedural rights in criminal proceedings hampers European judicial cooperation; this deadlock urgently needs to be overcome.
2008/06/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 31 #

Article 1 − point -1 (new)
Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA
Article 1 − paragraph 1
(-1) Article 1, paragraph 1 shall be replaced by the following: "1. Each Member State shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the intentional acts referred to below in points (a) to (i), as defined as offences under national law, which, given their nature or context, may seriously damage a country or an international public organisation where committed with the aim of: — seriously intimidating a population, or — unduly compelling a Government or international public organisation in a violent way to perform or abstain from performing any act, without prejudice to fundamental rights or freedoms such as the right to strike, freedom of assembly, of association or of expression, including the right of everyone to form and to join trade unions with others for the protection of his or her interests and the related right to demonstrate or — seriously destabilising or destroying the fundamental institutional, constitutional, structures of a country or an international public organisation, shall be deemed to be terrorist offences: (a) attacks upon a person’s life which may cause death; (b) serious attacks upon the physical integrity of a person causing serious bodily harm; (c) kidnapping or hostage taking; (d) causing extensive and serious destruction to a Government or public facility, a transport system, an infrastructure facility, including an information system with a view to destabilising the community, a fixed platform located on the continental shelf, a public place or private property, thereby seriously endangering public safety, in a way which is likely to endanger human life or result in major economic loss; (f) manufacture, possession, acquisition, transport, supply or use of weapons, explosives or of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, as well as research into, and development of, biological and chemical weapons; (g) release of dangerous substances, or causing fires, floods or explosions the effect of which is to endanger human life; (h) interfering with or seriously disrupting the supply of water, power or any other fundamental natural resource the effect of which is to endanger human life; (i) threatening to commit any of the acts listed in (a) to (h).
2008/06/10
Committee: LIBE