Activities of Debora SERRACCHIANI related to 2009/2241(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Institutional aspects of accession by the European Union to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms - Review Conference of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in Kampala, Uganda (debate)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 1
Paragraph 7 – indent 1
- the fact that the scope of the accession should be precisely defined in the mandate; the EU should also accede, at the least, to all those Additional Protocols to the ECHR which complement the rights enshrined in the ECHR and which have already been ratified by all the EU Member States, thus forming part of the EU’s human rights corpus. Furthermore, the accession to the revised European Social Charter should be taken into consideration;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that, as the accession to the ECHR concerns not only the EU institutions, but also the Union’s citizens, the European Parliament shouldmust be consulted and involved throughout the negotiation process, and shouldmust be immediately and fully informed at all stages of the negotiations, as provided for in Article 218(10) TEU;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that it is important to have an informal body in order to coordinate information sharing between the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Suggests that, in order to disseminate the added value of the accession to citizens, the Council of Europe and the EU should consider developing guidelines and advice and information programmes for the citizens with clear explanations of all the implications and effects that accession would bring;