5 Amendments of Takis HADJIGEORGIOU related to 2012/2032(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers it essential to ensure cooperation with the countries of origin and transit of refugees through support for regional protection programmes, a suitable resettlement policy, diplomatic representations in third countries and the correct application of exceptions to visa rules to ensure improved access to the Common European Asylum System; in particular of article 25 of the EU Visa Code which allows member states to issue visas for humanitarian reasons.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to provide without delay updated accurate and reliable information and data regarding asylum seekers and asylum-related issues, such as detention centres, facilitating the provision of more reliable statistics and the centralisation of this information through the EASO, providing it with the necessary powers and resources in accordance with its founding regulation;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the EUREMA relocation pilot project to be more widely adopted and for Member States to participate more actively in such initiatives and for the establishment of a permanent programme for resettlement between Member States of beneficiaries of international protection; emphasises that intra-EU relocation and EU resettlement programmes are complementary actions aimed at showing both intra- and extra-EU solidarity and neither of them should prejudice the other.
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the Dublin system has failed to meet its objective of establishing a fair division of asylum responsibilities between the Member States; as it disproportionately shifts responsibility towards Member States located at the external borders of the EU; stresses the need to review and reform the logic underlying the Dublin regulation and envisage alternative mechanisms for the allocation of responsibility for asylum applications;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the need to ensure more orderly and managed entry in the EU of persons in need of international protection in order to gain access to a fair asylum procedure in the EU in a safe and reliable manner, in the spirit of responsibility sharing between EU Member States and with third countries; reiterates in this respect the importance to establish national protected entry procedures for asylum seekers in their countries of origin as well as those unable to obtain protection in third countries of transit.