Activities of Jan Philipp ALBRECHT related to 2010/2309(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Organised crime in the European Union (short presentation)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on organised crime in the European Union PDF (254 KB) DOC (158 KB)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls forStresses that all measures to counter organised crime toshould respect fundamental rights in full and be proportionate to achieving their objective in a democratic society in line with the Union’s commitments;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is dissatisfied with the extremely limited impact on the legislative systems of the Member States of Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA on organised crime, which has not made any significant improvement to national laws or to operational cooperation to counter organised crime; stresses, therefore, the need to review and strengthen the legislative framework and calls on the Commission to submit, by the end of 2012, a proposal for a directive which contains a less general definition of organised crime and manages better to identify the key features of the phenomenoncommunication explaining why Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA failed to meet it aims and outlining options for more effective EU policies to combat organised crime; requests that, as regards the offence of membership of a criminal organisation, whilst showing due respect for different legislative systems, the abolition of the current dual approach (which criminalises both membership and conspiracy) be proposed and a range of habitual offences committed by organised crime be identified, which, regardless of the maximum sentence permitted in the Member States, could be deemed to constitute such a criminal offencestudied;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the importance of providing appropriate protection for the victims of organised crime, witnesses, informers and their families and calls on the Commission to submit, as soon as possible, a legislative proposal on this issue, the subject of which should be not only victims and their families but also witnesses and informers; calls for all types of victim to be treated equally (in particular the victims of organised crime, of duty and of terrorism) and for the protection of court witnesses to be extended over and beyond the duration of the court proceedingsin this regard welcomes the Commission’s proposal for a directive establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime; proposes establishing a European fund for the protection of victims and court witnesses;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to draw up a proposal for a directive to make the offence of Mafia association a punishable crimestudy the various ways in which ‘Mafia association’ is incriminated in allthe Member States, in order to be able to punishplus the way in which they tackle criminal organisations which profit from their very existence‘mafia association’, through their ability to intimidate – even without any specific acts of violence or threats – with the aim of securing the management or control, either directly or indirectly, of businesses, concessions, authorisations, contracts and public services, or of making, for themselves or others, unfair profits or gaining unjust advantages, or of preventing or impeding the free exercise of voting rights or securing votes for themselves or others in elections;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Asserts the importance of strengtheninvolving Eurojust in order to improve its effectiveness in countering transnational organised crime, with reference to its powers of initiative and to those conferred upon it under Article 85 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; takes the view that, in parallel, the provisions of the Treaty of Lisbon concerning the evaluation of Eurojust’s activities by the European Parliament and the national parliaments should be implemented, and is awaiting the relevant communication from the Commission by the end of 2011 and the legislative proposal by the end of 2012;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Reiterates its firm support for the implementation of Article 86 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union concerning the establishment of a European Public Prosecutor’s Office and calls on the Commission to arrange, as soon as possible, an impact assessment on the added value of this institution, considering as being within its scope both the protection of the EU’s financial interests anCalls on the Commission to arrange, as soon as possible, an impact assessment on the added value of the establishment of a European Public Prosecutor’s office including the possibility of its scope being expanded theo combating of cross- border organised crime, as provided for under Article 86(4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; reiterates its request that the Commission immediately launch debates and consultations with the parties concerned, including civil society, on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and make all the necessary arrangements to set up the appropriate institutional infrastructure, giving Eurojust full powers and consolidating, clarifying and simplifying its relations with key players such as taking into account the impact on fundamental rights and the rights of the defence in particular and the need for prior harmonisation of standards of procedural and substantive criminal law plus criminal jurisdiction rules; calls on the Commission to enter into consultations with all relevant stakeholders, including the Fundamental Rights Agency, the European Data Protection Supervisor, the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, national parliaments, civil society and defence rights organisations, to discuss the implications of the possible establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and its relations with Eurojust, Europol, the European Judicial Network, OLAF and Europol and with, individual national judicial and administrative institutions, the European Parliament and national parliaments;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Is aware that in order to overcome practical obstacles to judicial cooperation, considerable attention needs to be paid to informing and raising awareness among the judicial and police authorities and defence lawyers and calls on the Member States to consider judicial and police training plus defence rights a political priority; at the same time, calls on the Commission to mobilise the appropriate resources, including financial ones, to support the activity of the Member States;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Is convinced of the intrinsic link between organised crime and corruption and emphatically reiterates the request it expressed when adopting Written Declaration 02/10, both with reference to the creation of a mechanism to assess and monitor the policies of the 27 Member States in combating corruption and with regard to the framing of a comprehensive anti-corruption policy by the EU institutions; stresses the need for a proactive approach to combating corruption and calls on the Commission to place emphasis on measures to counter political corruption, that of the civil service, the courts, in all areas of the poublice and customs officers sector, in addition to private sector corruption; considers it, moreover, a priority to develop effective measures to combat corruption in the neighbourhood policy and in the use of development aid funds;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Undertakes to lay down rules to ensure that those who have been convicted of membership of criminal organisations or who have committed offences relating to such organisations, including aiding and abetting, or of corruption offences, will be unable to stand for election to the European Parliament; calls on European political groups to draw up internal codes of ethics to prevent those who have been convicted, even if not definitively, of such offences from standing for election; calls on the Member States to lay down similar rules for national and local elections and on the national parties to draw up codes of conduct to prevent those who have been convicted, even if not definitively, of the above- mentioned offences from standing for election;