Activities of Salvatore Domenico POGLIESE related to 2016/0089(NLE)
Plenary speeches (1)
Asylum: provisional measures in favour of Italy and Greece (A8-0236/2016 - Ska Keller) IT
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision amending Council Decision (EU) 2015/1601 of 22 September 2015 establishing provisional measures in the area of international protection for the benefit of Italy and Greece PDF (613 KB) DOC (347 KB)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Under Article 4(2) of Decision (EU) 2015/1601, as of 26 September 2016, 54 000 applicants should be relocated from Italy and Greece in the proportions laid down in that Decision (i.e. 12 764 applicants from Italy and 41 236 from Greece) to the territory of other Member States unless by that date, pursuant to Article 4(3), the Commission makes a proposal to allocate them to another beneficiary Member States confronted with an emergency situation characterised by a sudden inflow of persons.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) The relocation programme is not proceeding satisfactorily. According to the Commission progress reports on the relocation mechanism, the numbers of persons actually relocated as at 13 May 2016 stood at 909 (out of a total of 63 302) from Greece and 591 (out of a total of 34 953) from Italy.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) The agreement between the Union and Turkey has proved particularly effective and served largely to contain migration in the Aegean Sea region, this being the reason for the sharp fall in the number of arrivals in Greece. Precisely because of the success of the agreement, refugees might use new routes, in particular the central Mediterranean route to Italy, concerning which the UNHCR reports a 42.5% increase in migrants arriving via Libya compared with the corresponding period in 2015. The number of places required in order to relocate asylum-seekers in Italy is therefore likely to remain high.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) Resettlement, humanitarian admission, or other forms of legal admission from Turkey under national and multilateral schemes can be expected to relieve the migratory pressure on Member States which are beneficiaries of relocation under Decision (EU) 2015/1601, and on Greece in particular, by providing a legal and safe pathway to enter the Union and by discouraging irregular entries. Therefore, the solidarity efforts of Member States consisting in admitting to their territory Syrian nationals present in Turkey who are in clear need of international protection should be taken into account in relation to the 54 000 applicants for international protection referred to above. The number of persons so admitted from Turkey by a Member State should be deducted from the number of persons to be relocated to that Member State under Decision (EU) 2015/1601 in relation to those 54 000 applicantsonly to the 41 236 applicants who should have been relocated from Greece.
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Council Decision (EU) 2015/1601
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a – subparagraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a – subparagraph 1
3a. In relation to the relocation of applicants referred to in point (c) of paragraph 1, but only of the quota for Greece, the admission by Member States to their territory of Syrian nationals present in Turkey under national or multilateral legal admission schemes for persons in clear need of international protection other than the resettlement scheme which was the subject of the Conclusions of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting within the Council of 20 July 2015 shall lead to a corresponding reduction of the obligation of the respective Member State.