Activites

• 1996/10/28 Final act published in Official Journal
• 1996/09/17 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T4-0454/1996 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the report by Mrs Laura DE ESTEBAN MARTIN (PPE, E) by 223 votes to 158 with 50 abstentions. In this report, Parliament: - called on the IGC to adopt the necessary amendments to the Treaty so that the European Union could join the European Convention on Human Rights; - called on the Member States to recognize "jus soli" with regard to nationality; - condemned acts of torture and inhuman or degrading sentences or treatment inflicted in certain Member States on persons arrested or detained by the representatives of the forces of order, sometimes on racist grounds, and called for those responsible for such acts or practices to be punished; - called for special attention to be paid in prisons to persons requiring particular treatment; - expressed its extreme concern at the failure of several Member States to comply with minimum guarantees in procedures to recognize the status of refugees; - emphasized that any national from a third country allowed to enter the territory of a Member States with the status of "home help" should enjoy proper working conditions and called on the Member States to take the necessary legal measures; - drew attention to the risk, or even the serious breach which violation of the privilege of preliminary investigation and abuse of preventive detention measures constituted as regards the right to a fair trial, which was a basic human right; - insisted on the need to guarantee the right of conscientious objection in all Member States and called on Greece to put a halt to persecuting conscientious objectors; - called on the Member States to stop forcing their citizens to state their religion on identity cards (practice followed in Greece); - insisted that trade union rights be guaranteed and condemned the United Kingdom in particular for unilaterally suppressing the trade union rights of employees at GCHQ and recommended that the United Kingdom sign the "social chapter" without delay; - deplored the numerous breaches of trade union freedom and the rights of trade union representatives in numerous Member States and called for a halt to them and recognition of trade union freedom as a fundamental right; - considered any form of discrimination by reason of race, skin colour, ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, language, religion or political opinion to be unacceptable; - called for all discrimination and unequal treatment to be banned with regard to homosexuals, especially continuing differences in the age of consent for homosexual relations, together with discrimination under employment law, criminal law, civil law, contractual law and social and economic law; - called for measures to protect children against sexual abuse and violence to be stepped up; - called on Member States to criminalize pimping and the abuse of minors by their citizens abroad (sexual tourism) and to deal with them on the same footing under the provisions in force in their country; - stated that it was concerned that cases of economic exploitation and child labour were still being identified in certain Member States; - considered that a basic education was a right which should not be informed by economic interests but which should seek to form people, hence the need for free, liberal, universal education; - called on Member States to take special measures so that the fundamental right to education also applied to street children and the children of asylum seekers and refugees; - called on the Community and the Fifteen to implement an efficient policy to combat poverty and to take measures to drastically reduce the number of disadvantaged people in the Union. - maintained that the right to quality housing at an affordable price was a fundamental right in a civilized society and should be respected in all the Member States. �

• 1996/09/16 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 1996/06/27 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0223/1996
• 1995/02/22 Non-legislative basic document published
  • B4-0135/1995
• 1995/01/16 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading

Documents

• Non-legislative basic document published: B4-0135/1995
• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A4-0223/1996
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0454/1996

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)