3 Amendments of Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI related to 2021/2025(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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1. Welcomes the Commission’s first ever Rule of Law Report as a meaningful and positive addition to the EU’s toolbox to prevent and address rule of law issues in Member States; notes Commission´s central role in addressing the rule of law issues and developing the tools further; yearly reporting allows for strengthening of the Commission´s work and also enables the communication of best practices between member states;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
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4. Welcomes the methodology of the report, which focuses on four pillars: independence of the judiciary, the anti- corruption framework, media pluralism, and checks and balances; notes with concern the growing amount of threats towards journalists in member countries and the risk for media pluralism and freedoms; invites the Commission to include in the next editions an assessment of how the right to a fair trial is guaranteed in Member States, with particular attention paid to the right of defence, and equality between prosecution and defence parties; believes that the report should go beyond monitoring and include preventive and corrective elements with a clear outline of enforcement measures;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
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5. Calls on the Commission to use all tools at its disposal to counter violations of EU values, such as infringement procedures, including expedited procedures, actions to ensure compliance with the judgments of the Court of Justice and applications for interim measures before the Court; welcomes the new rule of law conditionality mechanism and asks that it be fully enforced with regard to all EU funds and programmes, including Next Generation EU;