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)
Amendments (28)
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
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’.
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
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;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
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;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
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;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
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;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
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;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
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;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
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;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
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;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
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;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
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;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
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;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40