12 Amendments of Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS related to 2020/2116(INI)
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Commission communication of 7 June 2016 on establishing a new Partnership Framework with third countries under the European Agenda on Migration, which builds on the GAMM principles, stresses that migration issues are at the top of the EU’s external relations priorities; whereas this framework calls for intensified cooperation with third countries, through ‘partnerships’ aiming at ensuring cooperation on migration management, in effectively preventing irregular migration and readmitting irregular migrants, including with positive and negative incentives stemming from different policy elements within EU competence, including neighbourhood, development aid, trade, mobility, energy, security and digital policies, all leveraged towards the same objective; whereas all such „partnerships“ need to have a clear legalbasis
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
G a. I. whereas illegal pushbacks are repeatedly occuring at the EU external borders; whereas the Commission has so far not acted on its responsability to prevent and condemn such illegal pushbacks; whereas the Commission shifts the responsibility to the concerned MemberStates;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Regrets that the new Asylum and Migration pact focuses nearly entirely on migration management and foremost returns and readmissions, recalls the need to provide for safe and legal migration pathways;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to ensure ex ante risk assessments, performed by independent agencies, on the impact of any formal, informal or financial EU cooperation with third countries on the rights of migrants and refugees; calls on the Commission to set implementation guidelines for EU agencies and Member States before entering into cooperation with third countries; calls in this respect for particular vigilance in relation to countries which are experiencing ongoing or frozen conflicts and face increased risks of human rights violations; calls on the Commission to ensure that any EU cooperation with third countries is fully formalised to ensure agreements with third countries can be effectively monitored; highlights in that regard the need for full parliamentary scrutiny and democratic accountability;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the EU to consider means to ensure access to justice for persons affected by measures implementing cooperation between it and third countries on migration, including through accessible mechanisms for seeking information, submitting complaints and securing effective remedysetting up an independent and accessible complaints mechanism;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that the implementation and funding of the EU’s external migration policy is assigned to different Commission Directorates-General and mainstreamed across the EU’s migration, asylum, development and foreign policies without a designated lead institutional actor; notes with concern that this blending of executive responsibilities has created a lack of sufficient and coherent oversight of the Commission’s activities that would enable Parliament to exert democratic control over the EU’s external migration policy and exercise budgetary authority over development funds, trust funds, facilities and other funding instruments used to meet EU policy goals related to migration; urges the Commission to designate a single lead institutional interlocutor at Commissioner level on the external dimension of migration;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Condems the human rights violations, violations of international, humanitarian and/or refugee law, such as non-refoulement, illegal pushbacks and violent attacks against migrants that are increasingly occurring at the the EU external borders; recalls that the Member States have an obligation to respect Union and international law, including human rights, humanitarian and refugee law; condemns the Commission‘s lack of action in this regard; calls on the Commission to ensure that Member States fulfill their humanitarian and human rights obligations under Union and international law; recommends that the European Commission should launch infringement procedures in cases where Member States do not respect their human rights and humanitarian obligations;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for the extension of the mandate, competencies and budget of the Fundamental Rights Agency to allow it to exercise an advisory role inffectively monitor the external dimension of EU asylum and migration policies and its involvement in monitoring exercises; suggests to extend the mandate of the FRA to allow it to alert the Court of Justice of the European Union in case Member States do not adhere to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European union or the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Notes with concern the increasing recourse since 2016 to enhanced conditionality between development cooperation and migration management, including return and readmission; stresses, however, that according to Article 208 TFEU the primary objective of Union development cooperation policy shall be the reduction and, in the long term, the eradication of poverty; calls, therefore, on the Commission to ensure that policies on development cooperation do not contravene the principles enshrined in Article 208 TFEU; stresses that the use of development cooperation as an incentive for migration management undermines meaningful action on the needs of people in developing countries, the rights of refugees and migrants, and their potential impact on regional migration patterns and contribution to local economies, and thus also undermines a wide range of rights stemming from the Sustainable Development Goals; stresses that there should be a clear demarcation between the EU‘s internal and external migration policies, instruments and funds;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that a complete, public overview of EU funding to third countries to facilitate cooperation on migration issues remains unavailable; cCalls on the Commission to provide improvedensure full transparency, including by establishing a clear overview of the funds used to finance cooperation with third countries in the field of migration management across all its financial instruments and their implementation, including information on the amount, purpose and source of funding as well as detailed information on any other potential support measures provided by EU agencies such as the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, in order to ensure that Parliament can efficiently perform its institutional role of scrutiny of the implementation of the EU budget;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Highlights the key role that international organisations, such as UNHCR, UNICEF and IOM, play in ensuring the protection of human rights in the context of migration and forced displacement and insists that EU support for for these organisations should be duly increased;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Notes that the possibilities of mainstreaming migration policy in EU external policy are significantly broadened by the inclusion of migration in the thematic, geographical and rapid response component of the proposed Neighbourhood, Development, International Cooperation Iincreased via the broad inclusion of migration-related actions in the new Neighbourhood, Development, International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI); stresses that migration-related spending in the NDICI should be limited to a maximum of 10%and that migration- related activities under NDICI should concentrate on addressing the root causes of irregular migration and forced displacement and on supporting strengthened engagement to facilitate safe, orderly, regular and responsible migration as well as on the implementation of planned and well- managed migration policies and governance; highlights that there should be a clear demarcation between internal and external EU migration policies, instruments and funds; recalls in that regard the NDICI should not be misused to fulfill the internal policy goals of the EU, underlines that the final agreement on migration-related activities in the NDICI should be horizontally coordinated with internal EU funds as well as IPA to avoid overlaps; insists that humanitarian and development funding can by no means be made conditional on the management of migration; recalls that the NDICI is foremost a development instrument (NDICI); notes with concern, however, that through the ‘rapid response’ component, cooperation with third countries on migration management can be funded without the need for the Commission to publish any programming documents or consult civil society actors, and without the involvement of Parliament, including in the framework of the ‘Migration Preparedness and Crisis Blueprint’, which lacks mechanisms to assess the possible adverse impact of such interventions; insists in this regard on the need to ensure that the 2021- 2027 Multiannual Financial Framework is accompanied by a robust human rights framework for the identification, implementation and monitoring of future migration cooperation programmes;