3 Amendments of Cristian Dan PREDA related to 2012/2263(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that one of the objectives of the EU Action Plan on Unaccompanied Minors was for the EU and its Members States to address the root causes of migration and integrate the issue of unaccompanied minors into development cooperation thus contributing to the creation of safe environments for children to grow up in their countries of origin ; underlines the need to develop further the preventive dimension of EU policies concerning unaccompanied minors by focusing more on the relation with poverty eradication, health and labour policies, human rights and democratization, as well as post-conflict reconstruction;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls the vital importance of the principle of ‘the best interests of the child’need to consider children as particularly vulnerable and emphasizes that the principle of ‘the best interests of the child’ must take precedence over all other considerations when dealing with unaccompanied minors;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points to the obvious protection gap at EU level as regards the reception of and provision of assistance to unaccompanied minors; considers that, in view of this, the EU should introduce a common and binding regulatory framework, based on a uniform definition of unaccompanied minors, and with clear rules to address the challenge in its entirety, in order to correct the current shortcomings and the disparities existing between Member States;