19 Amendments of Teresa JIMÉNEZ-BECERRIL BARRIO related to 2010/2309(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
- having regard to Directive 2011/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA,
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas progressive policies towards organised crime such as legalization of prostitution, could motivate the criminal sector to subvert the system in order to maintain their profits,
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas illegal immigrant woman and girls are more vulnerable to organised crime such as prostitution and trafficking than women and girls from national origin,
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas for most forms of crime women are much less likely to be perpetrators than men, but women can possibly also play an important role in exploiting the victims in case of crimes against persons and drug trafficking, or they may play the dual role of victims and accomplices in organised crime groups such as mafias,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
- having regard to the annual reports of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction on the state of the drugs problem in Europe,
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas female sex trade in Europe has altered greatly over the last 50 years into a lucrative and massive productive business which interacts within a network of multiple forms of organised crimes,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
Citation 20 a (new)
- having regard to the report from the Commission to the European Parliament and to the Council based on Article 8 of Council Decision 2007/845/JHA of 6 December 2007 concerning cooperation between Asset Recovery Offices of the Member States in the field of tracing and identification of proceeds from, or other property related to, crime (COM(201)176),
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the development at EU level of a comprehensive legislative framework for the protection of victims, witnesses and their relatives and of effective measures for their national and cross-border protection, such as the European Protection Order, giving especial attention to the situation of women who want to dissociate from organised crime, in particular if family members are involved;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Invites the Member States to consider establishing appropriate sanctions for users of services, such as child porn websites, which are the objects of exploitation of trafficking in human beings;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is convinced that organised crime is one of the key threats to the internal security of the EU; considers that, although organised crime and terrorism are often intertwingely connected with each other within illicit networks, it should be treated separately from terrorism, , and calls for a specific, horizontal EU strategy on the issue, including legislative and operational measures, the allocation of funds and a strict implementation timetable;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for all measures to counter organised crime to respect fundamental rights in full and be proportionate to achieving their objective in a democratic society, without restricting the freedom of the individual, which is constitutionally recognised in the laws of the Member States;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Welcomes the adoption of Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, a phenomenon often related to the activities of organised crime in the form of the exploitation of prostitution and labour, the removal of organs and enslavement;
Amendment 104 #
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 generalmore concrete definition of organised crime and manages better to identify the key features of the phenomenon; 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 offence;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission, the Council and the Member States to focus their dissuasive action on attacking criminal assets, including those that are indirectly linked to criminal organisations and their affiliates, which are often hidden behind a network of front men and, supporters, political institutions and lobby groups;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the importance of providing appropriate protection for theprimary and secondary 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 proceedings; proposes establishing a European fund for the protection of victims and court witnesses;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses that minors need special attention, treatment, protection, assistance and guidance when he or she is a victim of organised crime
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recognises that judicial cooperation between Member States is one of the pillars for combating transnational organised crime and for establishing a common area of security and justice, and calls on the Member States to honour their commitments and immediately to incorporate into their legislation all the judicial cooperation instruments that already exist at EU level, in particular the 2000 Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters and the Framework Decision on joint investigation teams;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Stresses the increasing trend of cyber crime, operating in a criminal underworld that connotes a lack of transparency where who is doing what is usually hidden from view, and which can provide new opportunities and benefits for illicit business, such as robbing online banks, illicitly gaining access to intellectual property and practising fraud on computerised data that provide attractive targets for extortion;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Emphasises the trend that criminal organisations move away from their more traditional ‘strong arm’ activities and increasingly focus on opportunities for money laundering or financial crime which could result in an increasing widespread development of internet-based criminal activities;