8 Amendments of Enrico GASBARRA related to 2015/2085(INL)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the protection of vulnerable adults is a cross-border issue and therefore concerns all Member States; whereas this issue is symbolic of the role which the Union and its Parliament must play in responding to the problems and difficulties which European citizens encounter in the exercise of their rights, in particular by providing an experimental solution conducive to the use of new information technologies to ensure a more inclusive form of citizenship;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the protection of vulnerable adults must not constitute an obstacle to the right of free movement of persons, but could in fact be a vehicle for better inclusion of categories of adults still excluded from the benefits of Community mobility, European citizenship and the internal market;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Applauds those Member States which have signed and ratified the Hague Convention, and encourages those Member States which have not yet signed or ratified it to do so as quickly as possible; calls on the Commission to exert political pressure on the Council and the Member States that could lead to an increase in the number of ratifications by the end of 2017;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reminds the Commission and the Member States that not all vulnerable adults are necessarily vulnerable by virtue of their advanced age, and calls for measures to be taken to strengthen the legal protection and rights not only of elderly vulnerable adults, but also of adults who are vulnerable by virtue of a serious mental and/or physical disability; considers in this respect that it would be extremely worthwhile to establish exchanges and comparisons of good practices among the Member States, taking forms of protection and safeguard as the starting point;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to pay particular attention to the needs of the most disadvantaged vulnerable adults and to ensure that they do not suffer discrimination as a result of their condition; in that connection, calls on the Member States to ensure that their laws do not impose fees or formalities which would, in an unreasonable way, prevent disadvantaged adults from being the subject of a mandate in anticipation of incapacity, irrespective of their financial situation; calls also, to this end, for a filtering of hitherto-unexplored sources of financing under the Social Fund, such as the promotion of pilot projects for less- well protected adults in certain Member States;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to fund projects designed to make EU citizens aware of the Member States’ laws on vulnerable adults and protection measures; calls on the Member States to take appropriate steps to provide all persons on their territory with information about their national laws and the services available in the area of the protection of vulnerable adults; points to the website www.the- vulnerable.eu, among the different types of support for the rights of vulnerable adults, as being a tool providing information and updates on the protection offered in the various Member States;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Confirms that the recommendations are consistent with fundamental rights and the principle of subsidiarity; stresses in this respect the importance of giving expression, among national best practices, to the outcomes of work done by local communities and by local authorities;