72 Amendments of Arnaud DANJEAN related to 2018/2044(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the security of one Member State is the security of all in the Union; whereas in the last two years the EU and the Member States have made progress in countering the threats posed by terrorism, but whereas this progress is unfortunately made under pressure of events rather than through pro-active measures; whereas the coordinated approach between Member States and EU institutions should be successful in this field in order to address shortcomings in the face of an enduring threat on an unprecedented scale;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas at the same time Article 4(2) TFEU designates the area of freedom, security and justice as an area of shared competence between the Union and the Member States; whereas the EU has specific competences as regards facilitating and encouraging coordination and cooperation between Member States, including standardisation of laws and practices across Member States;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the diverse landscape of regional, national, EU and internationalmultitude of actors in the field of counter-terrorism with overlapping competences and insufficiently delineated mandatdifferent characteristics, mandates and geographical prerogatives, the multitude of formal and informal fora for cooperation and exchange of information, as well as the division of competences between the different regional and national agencies, between law enforcement services and intelligence services and between the EU and the Member States, may give rise to difficulties with regard to the coordination and coherence of the response to the terrorist threat;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas the EU Counter Terrorism Coordinator has proved to be a useful bridge between the different EU institutions and with the Member States, nevertheless his mandate and status are ill-defined;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas on 6 July 2017 the Parliament set up a temporary Special Committee on Terrorism (TERR) with the aim of providing Parliament’s view as to the practical and legislative gaps in the current counter-terrorism regime that have allowed the recent terrorist attacks in the EU to occur and making recommendations that would help tackle the terrorist threat at EU level;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
F b. whereas, in order to allow the Parliament to dedicate sufficient attention and the specific efforts necessary for contributing effectively and responding to the challenges posed by terrorism, a standing parliamentary committee responsible for internal security and terrorism should be set up within the Parliament; whereas the setting up of such a standing parliamentary committee will signal the Parliament’s engagement and understanding of the importance of the issues of internal security, international organised crime and terrorism, which are at the forefront of EU citizens’ concerns; whereas it will also reflect the significance of this issue for the Parliament and will mirror the institutional setup in other EU institutions and bodies, such as the creation of a Security Union Task Force and the appointment of a Commissioner for the Security Union within the Commission, the creation of a European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC) within Europol, as well as the existence of a Working Party on Terrorism within the Council;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas developments and instability in the Middle East, and North Africa, and Caucasian regions have enabled Daesh and other terrorist groups to gain a foothold in countries bordering the EU such as those of the Western Balkans, andand recruit fighters from the EU on an unprecedented scale, and as a result the nexus between internal and external security has become more prominent;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas Daesh and Al-Qaeda are financially self-reliant and whereas illicit trade in goods, firearms, oil, drugs, cigarettes and cultural objects, among other items, as well as trafficking in human beings, slavery, child exploitation, racketeering and extortion, have becomeproved to be a means for terrorist groups to obtain funding; whereas the link between organised crime and terrorist groups constitutes a growingmajor security threat; whereas these sources could enable the continued funding of future criminal activities by Al-Qaeda, as well as by Daesh following its territorial collapse in Syria and Iraq;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas terrorists continue to use small arms and explosives and have increasingly resorted to ad hoc weapons such as vehicles, trucks and knifes; whereas recenrecent attacks have demonstrated that firearms and explosives are still traditional methods used by terrorist groups and individuals to commit attacks, have been prepared thoroughly or carried out spontaneouslyowever there is a growing use of other weapons and methods that are much more sophisticated and more difficult to detect;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas most migrants wish to seek a new life and integrate into our countries but a major terrorist threat can be created by relatively few people, and our open societies and open borders are vulnerable to abuse, with someand are exploited by terrorist groups; whereas terrorists makinghave made use of migrants’ and asylum seekers’ routes of access to European countries and, exploiting the freedom of movement across Europe;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T
Recital T
T. whereas new forms of terrorism may be used for an attack, among them cyber-terrorism and the use of weapons of mass destruction, possibly in connection with new technical equipment such as drones; whereas there is the precedent of a foiled attack involving the highly toxic biological agent ricin; whereas there are cases where Daesh has used or planned to use chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) materials, and shared via social media channels possible tactics and methods for attacks and targets;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T a (new)
Recital T a (new)
T a. whereas multiple cases of trafficking of radiological or nuclear material are annually reported to the Incident and Trafficking database of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), emphasising the latent risk emanating from such substances, particularly with regard to the severity of their potential consequences;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Z
Recital Z
Z. whereas several European funds and programmes can be used for projects countering and preventing radicalisation; whereas the EU budget up to 2020 allocates EUR 314 million for anti- radicalisation projects1a; whereas there is no continuous evaluation of the effectiveness of those programmes; __________________ 1a Speech by Commissioner Jourová, in charge of Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, at the Conference on Radicalisation in Prisons, in Brussels, Borschette, 27.2.2018 http://europa.eu/rapid/press- release_SPEECH-18-1221_en.htm
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AA
Recital AA
AA. whereas it is estimated that there are between 50 000 and 70 000 radicalised jihadists in the EU;1a; __________________ 1a Jean Charles Brisard, Centre d’Analyse du Terrorisme, TERR meeting of 9 April 2018
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AA
Recital AA
AA. whereas it is estimated that there are between 50 000 and 70 000 radicalised jihadistindividuals in the EU;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AI
Recital AI
AI. whereas although major progress has been made with regard to removal of online terrorist content, there is a need to scale up the companies’ engagement; whereas the removals are often not complete nor timely or permanent, removing the content from one website but leaving it on another belonging to the same company; whereas effective and comprehensive or allowing the account to remain live and/or reappear after it has posted content in violation of a company’s terms of service; whereas effective, comprehensive and transparent reporting by companies has to be improved;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AJ
Recital AJ
AJ. whereas, in response to larger companies removing more content and doing so at a greater pace, Daesh is increasingly using new and/or smaller platforms which are less suited to fast removal of terrorist material; whereas this diversification to smaller platforms makes additional technical support essential to enable, for example, the introduction of platform-agnostic automated tools, such as the database of hasheshashing technology, which can identify online terrorist content with a high degree of accuracy as well as promulgating EU- wide standards for terms of service to be adopted across companies and by which EU Member States can judge a company’s performance in enforcing such standards;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AL
Recital AL
AL. whereas retention of data is an essential part of the investigative process; whereas police and, judicial authorities and intelligence services usually rely heavily on communications data to successfully proceed with their casework; whereas in order for interoperability of information systems to reach its full potential, harmonised data retention regimes across the EU are vital; whereas the necessity of an appropriate data retention regime when it comes to the fight against terrorism was consistently raised during the work of the TERR Committee;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AM
Recital AM
AM. whereas the use of encryption by terrorists to protect their communications or stored data represents a considerable challenge for law enforcement and intelligence services, denying access to essential intelligence and evidence; whereas encryption becomes particularly critical when even the responsible online service providers are unwilling or unable to decrypt the communication;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AV a (new)
Recital AV a (new)
AV a. whereas - in the context of the Information Management strategy (IMS), 6th Action list - there are currently two on-going pilot projects which aim at ensuring interlinking with decentralised systems, namely the ADEP project (Automation of data exchange processes on police records) and project QUEST (“Querying Europol Systems”); where-as such projects help provide real and workable solutions to the problems stemming from the lack of interconnectivity of decentralised information systems and help foster trust and cooperation between the Member States;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AY
Recital AY
AY. whereas a variety of factors can lead to difficulties in cooperation between the different national, regobstacles to a more fluid cooperation often stem from organisational and locegal services within the Member States, such as: overlapping competences and insufficiently delineated mandates; hesitancy to share information as this might result in loss of responsibility or loss of important information flows; legal obstacles when it comes to sharing information between different services or the possibility of using intelligence in court cases; services being obliged to compete with each other for resources; and technical barriers to information exchangedifficulties between the different national, regional and local structures within the Member States themselves;
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BB a (new)
Recital BB a (new)
BB a. whereas intelligence information should be given a special, even higher level of protection over police information because of the different working methods, such as the gathering of confidential information from sources and informants who must be kept anonymous, as well as the different objectives that require more sensitivity;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BB a (new)
Recital BB a (new)
BB a. whereas in order to guarantee the CTG’s long-term public acceptance and rapprochement towards the EU security structure, there is a need to enhance its public visibility without limiting the privacy needed for effective intelligence cooperation;
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BC
Recital BC
BC. whereas the UK government has expressed its intention of leaving the EU on 29 March 2019; whereas the EU and the UK are highly interdependent in the area of security and counter-terrorism; whereas both should be able to continue to share, collect and analyse vital operational intelligenceinformation in the fight against serious crime on a level equivalent to the current one;
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BD
Recital BD
BD. whereas efficient and systematic cooperation between the Member States and the EU agencies as well as among the agencies in the counter-terrorism field is imperative, especially cooperation between Europol and Eurojust in order to effectively detect, prevent, and investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of a terrorist attack; whereas Eurojust has appointed a specialised counter-terrorism prosecutor to make the bridge with the ECTC at Europol to increase cooperation and information exchange between the two agencies;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BG
Recital BG
BG. whereas several EU instruments such as Decision 2005/671/JHA, the CT Directive and the Europol regulation require Member States to share information on terrorism with the relevant agencies; whereas increased information sharing with Europol and Eurojust on a regular basis and in a timely and systematic manner, including contextual information, facilitates their work in detecting links between cases and providing an overview of challenges and best practice related to investigations, prosecutions and convictions for terrorist offences; whereas information shared with Eurojust has increased over the past years, but differences continue to exist between the Member States in relation to the amount, type and scope of the information shared, which may result in fragmented information available1a; __________________ 1a While only 14 terrorism cases were referred to Eurojust in 2014, the number of cases dealt by Eurojust from 2014-2018 reached 263 with a total of 61 coordination meetings in 75 terrorism cases, 2 coordination centres and 14 cases with JITs supported by Eurojust
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BG a (new)
Recital BG a (new)
BGa. whereas information exchange between EU agencies is not ideal because of the use of different secure means of communication; whereas the establishment of an interinstitutional secure means of communication could facilitate and improve information exchange between agencies such as EU INTCEN, Europol and Frontex;
Amendment 415 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BK
Recital BK
BK. whereas close cooperation withby online service providers (OSPs) is necessary when it comes to securing and obtaining electronic evidence, given its importance for investigating terrorist offences;
Amendment 453 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BS
Recital BS
BS. whereas battlefield evidence is often essential to identify potential foreign terrorist fighters and needs to be included in the relevant databases in order to reach border guards in real time;
Amendment 499 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CB
Recital CB
CB. whereas the Commission Comprehensive Assessment of EU Security Policy and the evaluation study of Directive 2008/114/EC indicate that: the threat to critical infrastructures is likely to continue to rise, that there is a need to enhance preparation and response capabilities and to revise Directive 2008/114/EC, and that there is an interest in targeting transport infrastructures; whereas a better framework is needed to improve rail security and to address the issue of protection of public areas of transport infrastructures, such as airports and, ports and maritime transport, as well as railway stations;
Amendment 514 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CH a (new)
Recital CH a (new)
CH a. whereas vehicle rental companies lack the ability to exchange information such as booking or reservation data with law enforcement agencies for the purpose of cross-checks against official watch-lists and police databases;
Amendment 558 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CX
Recital CX
CX. whereas the EU is cooperating with third countries in the area of counter- terrorism in a variety of ways; whereas a number of EU instruments can be used to finance CT programmes abroad; whereas the EU has deployed a network of CT experts within EU delegations; whereas EU agencies such as Europol, Eurojust and CEPOL are also cooperating with third countries in the area of counter-terrorism, through strategic and operational agreements for example;
Amendment 592 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital DE a (new)
Recital DE a (new)
DE a. whereas Eurojust has been facilitating the execution of MLA requests for coordinating and granting assistance in the exercise of rights of victims of terrorism, considering the different rights and roles of foreign victims in their national legal systems;
Amendment 599 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital DF
Recital DF
DF. whereas the Union is founded on the values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as on the principles of democracy and the rule of law; whereas acts of terrorism constitute the most serious violation of these universal values and principles; whereas there are religious practices throughout the EU that fundamentally oppose EU values;
Amendment 654 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls for the setting up within the European Parliament of a standing parliamentary committee responsible for matters relating to internal security and terrorism and dealing with particularly sensitive information;
Amendment 656 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls for clarification of the status and role of the Counter Terrorism Coordinator, as a bridge between the EU Counter Terrorism institutions and Member State agencies;
Amendment 668 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to work with the Member States towards more transparency and a common understanding of threat levels; calls on the Member States to swiftly transmit information on the change of the threat level and the rationale behind itMember States to transmit information on the change of the threat level so that a harmonised assessment may be produced; recalls that the EU has a structure - the EU INTCEN - authorised to produce analyses using intelligence and assessments from the Member States’ intelligence services;
Amendment 675 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to monitor all foreign terrorist fighters; calls for an effective and appropriate follow-up of the threat posed by returnees, and for this purpose invites Member States to share contextual information about returnees via Europol; calls on the Commission to assist Member States in the establishment of aligned classification systems in order to distinguish between high, medium and low-risk returneesfor an effective, harmonised follow-up by the Member States and appropriate European agencies, and in particular Europol, of returnees to Europe;
Amendment 692 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to develop a coordinated approach on the return of foreign terrorist fighters and their relatives, in particular with regard to coordinated procedures, criteria and the exchange of information on returnees and their follow-up, in order to increase preparedness and close any gaps within the Schengen Area;
Amendment 693 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the Commission to present a legislative proposal that precludes convicted terrorist offenders as well as persons where there is clear evidence that they pose a severe threat to public security from applying for asylum or other forms of international protection throughout the European Union;
Amendment 703 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Calls on Member States to create or strengthen specialised laboratories; asks the Commission and Parliament to fund and support relevant cross-border research activities;
Amendment 706 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to set common standards for vetting procedures at vulnerable institutions such as nuclear power plants or specialised laboratories;
Amendment 708 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Encourages Member States to make more use of technical detection systems of CBRN substances particularly at large-scale public events and calls on the Commission and the European Parliament to make further European funding available for comprehensive acquisitions of such systems;
Amendment 709 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9 c. Welcomes the approval of a regulation on civil aviation safety and the mandate of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and repealing Regulation (EC) No 216/2008; calls on the Commission to take into account security aspects for forthcoming delegated and implementing rules on drones and drones operations, including regularly updated risk assessments; mandatory registration, electronic identification and geofencing in all drones categories; and mandatory security licenses and trainings for operators of security and inspection missions;
Amendment 725 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Welcomes the European Council (at 27) Guidelines of 23 March 2018 in which it expresses “determination to have as close as possible a partnership with the UK in the future […] in particular the fight against terrorism and international crime[…]”; recognises that the Directors of both EUROPOL and the EU Intcen have called for uninterrupted continuation of UK engagement in their organisations in the post-Brexit arrangements; urges negotiation of special arrangements to underpin the future internal security relationship between the EU and the UK;
Amendment 770 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Calls on Eurojust to continue its work in monitoring the jurisprudence in Member States as regards radicalisation leading to terrorism, including the use of alternatives to prosecution and detention, and to report regularly in its Terrorism Conviction Monitor (TCM); to this end, calls on the Member States to transmit to Eurojust all relevant information on prosecutions and convictions for terrorist offences which affect or may affect two or more Member States;
Amendment 779 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges the Member States to encourage and tolerate only ‘practices of Islam’ that are in full accordance with EU values; calls upon the Member States to make transparent the foreign funding of mosques and schools and to ban funding from third countries that oppose the EU’s fundamental values of democracy, pluralism, tolerance, and equality between men and women; welcomes the initiatives by moderate Muslim religious communities throughout Europe to counter the dangerous narratives from within their communities
Amendment 798 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States to conduct prior screenings of chaplains and to consistently blacklist any hate preachers; calls on the Commission to introduce an EU watch list so as toUrges discouragement of foreign imams and blacklisting, on a case by case basis of known hate preachers, with better exchange of information on radical chaplainbetween Member States on this;
Amendment 803 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to increase the offer of higher education opportunities for chaplainimams in the EU, with accrediting theological education programmes integrating EU values; invites the Commission and the Member States to develop and fund a network of European religious scholars that can spread - and testify to - practices of Islam that are compliant with EU values;
Amendment 840 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Invites the Member States to examine how to ensure that places of worship, education, charities, cultural associations and similar entities provide details regarding the provenance of their funds and their distribution, both within and outside the EU, and how data concerning these entities, where there exists suspicion or reasonable grounds to suspect links with terrorist groups, could be recorded in a centralised database, set up with all the appropriate guarantees; calls on Member States to ban funding from third countries that oppose the EU’s fundamental values of democracy, pluralism, tolerance, and equality between men and women;
Amendment 894 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Underlines the need to achieve automatic detection and systematic, fast and full removal of terrorist content; requests the Commission to present a legislative proposal obliging companies to remove terrorist content fully within one hour and to introduce clear reporting obligations on the incidence of terrorist content and removal rates, as well as sanctions for non-compliance;
Amendment 949 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)
Paragraph 29 b (new)
29 b. Calls on the Member States to conduct prior screenings of chaplains and to consistently blacklist any hate preachers; calls on the Commission to introduce an EU watch list so as to better exchange information on radical chaplains;
Amendment 958 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Urges Member States to introduce a licensing system for chaplainimams accessing prisons, and calls on the Council, with support from the Commission, to draw up guidelines on this; calls on Member States to regularly evaluate and monitor the chaplainimams having access to prisons;
Amendment 983 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Urges the Member States to adopt the approach of ‘information sharing by default’ when it comes to sharing CT- related information, thus exchanging such information as a rule, and refraining from such exchange only in specific cases where circumstances require that it be withheldsystematise the most comprehensive possible exchange and accessibility of police and judicial information between all national and European structures that are active in the fight against terrorism; points out that this necessary sharing and exchange of information cannot be envisaged in a similarly systematic way for information from human or technical sources, which, particularly taking into account the sensitive nature of the acquisition methods, can only be shared according to specific methods between Member States and international partners, including specialised European agencies;
Amendment 992 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Calls on the Member States to respect their obligations under the CT Directive to exchange relevantnecessary information in connection with terrorist offences as soon as possible with the competent authorities of other Member States, not only on request but also spontaneously;
Amendment 1004 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Regrets the current existence of 28 different legal regimes for data retention, which is counter-productive for cooperation and information exchange; urges the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal on data retention, in line with the requirements stemming from the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, while taking into account the needs of the competent authorities and the specificities of the CT field;
Amendment 1015 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)
Paragraph 39 a (new)
39 a. Calls on the Commission to propose an update of the Schengen Information System II, requiring law enforcement authorities to also register the controls performed on a target registered in SIS II and establishing a uniform use of SIS II with regard to terrorism, in order to ensure a coherent and joint approach to these types of targets, improve information for law enforcement officers and traceability in the framework of criminal investigations;
Amendment 1016 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)
Paragraph 39 a (new)
39 a. Calls on the co-legislators to ensure that intelligence services continue to have legitimate access to SIS under the reformed legal regime to avoid new security and information exchange gaps;
Amendment 1017 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 b (new)
Paragraph 39 b (new)
39 b. Believes that it is essential that intelligence services be given direct access to the Schengen Information System and other EU information systems; calls, therefore, on the Commission to propose an update of relevant EU legislation in order to allow national intelligence services to have direct access to relevant EU information systems;
Amendment 1031 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Calls on Member States to ensure access to VIS for law enforcement authorities as well as intelligence services involved in CT operations and for a simplified procedure for such access;
Amendment 1098 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54 d (new)
Paragraph 54 d (new)
54 d. Calls to set up an EU Joint Intelligence Academy with common standards, in order to combine resources and develop synergies, trust and a common intelligence culture;
Amendment 1108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Calls on the Member States to examine the possibility of better coordination and cooperation between intelligence and law enforcement services at EU level by increasingl, for example by sending intelligence experts in addition to law enforcement staff to the meetings of the Counter-Terrorism Joint Liaison Team (CTJLT) at Europol, which could serve as a blueprint for further cooperation between law enforcement and intelligence; calls on the Commission to support the CTJLT, including special funding;
Amendment 1132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
58. Calls for Europol to become a veritable hub for exchanging legal information exchange and cooperation in the field of counter- terrorism in the EU, if necessary with a stronger mandate;
Amendment 1136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59
Amendment 1146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62
Paragraph 62
62. Urges the Commission and the Member States to provide enhanced financial and human resources, including data scientists and big data analysts, for the development of technical solutions to deal with the high volume of data to be analysed; calls for Europol to be tasked with further R&D projects, with a focus on standardisation and big data management for the benefit of Member States;
Amendment 1159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64
Paragraph 64
64. Calls on Member States to ensure cooperation among all relevant stakeholders with a view to increasing the decryption abilities of the competent authorities; calls for the swift creation of a ‘Decryption Hub’ at Europol to develop decryption tools and expertise in order to better support Member States;
Amendment 1198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 a (new)
Paragraph 72 a (new)
72 a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that any legal or political evaluation, check, procedure or lawsuit provides intelligence information with a special degree of protection and to ensure that the protection of confidentiality and integrity of sources of intelligence and officials is maintained in order not to endanger the work and the security of sources, informants and employees of the intelligence services;
Amendment 1265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 87
Paragraph 87
Amendment 1339 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99
Paragraph 99
99. Urges the further development and capabilities of FIU.net by Europol so that it can be used to its full potential and in order to facilitate the manual processing of bilateral requests, ensuring the autonomy and independence of financial intelligence cells is respected;
Amendment 1423 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 123
Paragraph 123
123. Considers that CT is a field which requires concrete expertise, including on related aspects such as rights of victims; calls, therefore, for the deepening of professionalisation of the EU network in this area, in particular by granting CT operative personnel coming from Member States a better and longer integration into the EU structure, beyond a single assignment within an EU delegation; considers that posting within the EU institutions would maximise expertise and use of competences in the field of CT;