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Activities of Lorenzo FONTANA related to 2016/2329(INI)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on the implementation of Directive 2011/99/EU on the European Protection Order PDF (590 KB) DOC (73 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: FEMMLIBE
Dossiers: 2016/2329(INI)
Documents: PDF(590 KB) DOC(73 KB)

Amendments (28)

Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Notes with concern that, since the transposition of the EPO Directive, only seven EPOs have been issued by the Member States, although thousands of national protection orders have been requested and issued in the Member States in recent years20; _________________ 20 The EPRS’s study on the ‘European Protection Order Directive 2011/99/EU – European Implementation Assessment’ reports that ‘it has been estimated that in 2010 over 100 000 women residing in the EU were covered by protection measures related to gender-based violence’.
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Deplores that the Commission did not submit a report to Parliament and Council on the application of the EPO Directive by 11 January 2016; calls onorders the Commission to meet its reporting obligations as set out in the directive;
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. RecCalls the obligation foron the executing state to recognise the EPO with the same priority as the issuing state in spite of the various complexities and legal challenges involved;
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Is concerned that there is a significant gap between coordination and communication among the Member States when an EPO is executed; calls on the Member States to improve and jointly enhance cooperation and communication in relation to the EPO as this would set in motion much more efficient procedures and simultaneous cross-border action among the Member Statesstep up their cooperation in this area;
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to set up a European Registry System to collect information on EPOs from all Member Staincluded on National Registry Systems;
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to publish the full list of competent authorities responsible for issuing and recognising EPOs and of central authorities transmitting and receiving EPOs in the Member States, and to make the list easily accessible to enable protected persons and victim support organisations to request EPOs or to settle related issues; calls on the Member States to strengthen their national and local institutions and competent authorities to enhance the accessibility and applicability of the EPO in a manner conducive to EPOs being issued;
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Deplores that translation and interpretation services into a language the victim understands are not guaranteed by the Member States before, during and after the issuing of an EPO;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. UnderlinesCalls on the Member States to do their utmost to ensure that translation and interpretation services need to bare available and free of charge for victims when a cross- border instrument in criminal matters such as the EPO is being executed;
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Deplores the shortage of special measures implemented by thsome Member States for victims in vulnerable situations or victims with specific needs; calls, therefore, on the Member States to adopt special guidelines and measures that will facilitate the EPO for victims in vulnerable situations or victims with specific needs;
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to fix a clearset a precise and short timeframdeadline for the competent authorities of the Member States when issuing EPOs in order to avoid increasing the uncertainty of protected persons, and, for the sake of achieving the same goal, to instruct the competent authorities to provide sufficient information to the victims during the process of taking a decision on their EPO requestto issue European Protection Orders;
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to monitor the implementation of this directive and launch infringement proceedings against all Member States that breach it;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on EU agencies such as the FRA and the European Institute for Gender Equality to monitor the implementation of the directive regularly;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission to launch a civil society monitoring and reporting call in order to improve the working of the EPO instrument in the Member States;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to launch calls promoting research into the use of national and European protection orders and to coordinate programmes to initiate awareness-raising campaigns within the Member States to inform victims of crime of the possibility of applying for an EPO and about cross-border protection measures;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Member States to step up their work with NGOs and to provide, with their involvement, human rights- based, service-oriented, practical and intersectional training courses for all public officials working with victims on a professional basis in relation to the EPO and who are key to the correct implementation of this directive; stresses that specific and regular training and courses on the EPOs for the police, the personnel of the competent national authorities and for legal practitioners should be established in all Member States;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Member States, given the increasing exposure of children and teenagers to violence online, to consider including education on gender equality and non-violence on the school curriculum;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Commission to include the protection of all citizens, especially those in the most vulnerable situations, in the European Agenda on Security with a focus on the victims of crimes such as trafficking in human beings or gender-based violence, including victims of terrorism, who also need special attention, support and social recognition;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to set up campaigns to encourage women to report any forms of violence on the basis of gender, thereby improving the accuracy of data on gender-based violence;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Member States to launch long-term awareness-raising and intersectional sensitising campaigns on both gendersex-based violence and the available instruments of protection with the involvement of relevant NGOs;
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Urges the Member States to step up their work with NGOs protecting the victims of violence in order to design strategies featuring both proactive and reactive measures in relation to gender- based violence, the functioning of the EPO instrument and the necessary changes in legislation and support;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Commission to present a legal act to support Member States in the prevention and suppression of all forms of violence against women and girls and of gender-based violence;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Calls on the Council to activate the passerelle clause by adopting a unanimous decision to identify violence against women and girls (and other forms of gender-based violence) as a criminal offence under Article 83(1) TFEU;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Welcomes the signing, on 13 June 2017, of the EU’s accession to the Istanbul Convention, which follows a holistic, comprehensive and coordinated approach, placing the rights of the victim at the centre, and which should be fully connected with the EPO; underlines the importance of this instrument in overcoming one of the barriers to the application of EPOs, namely the lack of recognition of stalking as a criminal offence across all Member States;
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Calls on the Member States to fully enforce the Istanbul Convention and to allocate adequate financial and human resources to preventing and combating violence against women and gendersex-based violence, including by empowering women and girls, protecting victims and enabling them to be awarded compensation;
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
37. Underlines that the judicial and practical flaws in the implementation of this directive can be counteracted by the proper interplay of the various EU victim- protection instruments, such as Directive 2012/29/EU of 25 October 2012 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
38. Calls upon the Member States to inform victims about other protection measures in case the executing state ceases to come under the scope of this directive;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
39. Calls on the Commission to take action with a view to reviewing the existing instruments of legal protection for the victims of crime and establishing a coherent EU legal framework for it;deleted
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
40. Calls on the Commission to assess how this directive is applied in connection with the related instrument in civil matters, namely Regulation EU No 606/201321.and to propose guidelines on how these two legal EU instruments seeking to protect victims by recognising protection measures adopted under national civil or criminal legal proceedings could be more efficiently applied by Member States; _________________ 21deleted OJ L 181, 29.6.2013, p. 4.
2017/12/13
Committee: LIBEFEMM