12 Amendments of Anders VISTISEN related to 2017/2256(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the permanent reintroduction of border controls would have serious impacts on citizens’ lives and seriously undermine their trust in European integration; whereas Schengen countries would face tremendous direct operational and investment costs, with crippling effecit is the Member States’ undeniable right to decide to impose border controls in order to ensure the safety and security of its own their economies; whereas the estimations of those costs alone amount to more than EUR 18 billion per year for cross-border workers, tourists, road freight transporters and public administrationscitizens as a matter of utmost priority;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises the support and capacity-building measures taken in the countries of origin to address the root causes of irregular migration and raise awareness of the risks of irregular migration among those societies; considers it crucial that adequate maritime search-and- rescue aspects and capabilities are embedded into all operational planning and execution, as provided for in Regulation (EU) No 656/2014;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers cooperation with third countries, in particular in the context of development policy and readmission agreements, as one of the most essential elements in finding the solution to irregular migration while noting there has not been sufficient progress in that regard;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the ongoing reform of the SIS and the establishment of other large-scale information systems, as well as the objective of improving their interoperability while preserving the necessary safeguards, namely with regard to data protection and privacy without prejudice to ensuring safety for EU citizens against the terrorist threat;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that the current state of Schengen and the issues it has encountered are not due to problems in the structure and construction of Schengen itself but rather to the connected fields of the acquis, such as shortcomings in the area of the Common European Asylum System, including the Dublin Regulation, and control of the external borders;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Stresses the urgent need to address the identified critical security shortcomings without delay in order to return to the normal functioning of Schengen without internal border controls;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on all Member States to implement fully the existing regulations and calls on the Commission to act decisively in matters of violations of commonly agreed rules by imposing proportionate and necessary measures on the Member States in question, in order to safeguard the interests of the other Member States and of the Union as a whole;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Member States to further develop mutual cross-border police cooperation through joint threat assessment, risk analysis and patrols; calls for the full implementation of the Prüm Convention and adhesion to the European Information Exchange Model and the Swedish Initiative; calls on the Member States to improve their national law enforcement cooperation and information sharing structures and to improve practical cooperation, in particular with neighbouring Member States;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Member States to ensure the independent nature of the national data protection authorities, namely by providing sufficient financial resources and staff to fulfil their increasing tasks; calls on the Member States to ensure the necessary audits of information systems and their use; calls on the Member States to enable the rights of data subjects to launch complaints and request their personal information, and to raise public awareness regarding information systems while ensuring a high level of security against terrorist threats;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Insists that multipurpose operations be conducted by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency with the aim of responding to the need for maritime search-and-rescue assets (as provided for in Regulation (EU) No 656/2014) to be present in the relevant areas; requires the European Border and Coast Guard Agency to take a more active role in supporting the Member States in coordinated return operations, as well as organizing its own return operations;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Recalls that the high priority given to the reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) as part of the holistic approach to tackling the refugee and migration crisis and the Commission’s Agenda on Migration; calls on the Council to swiftly follow Parlia must be implemented in adopting a mandate for negotiations on every proposal in this regard; highlline with the Member States’ sovereign rights that the new European Agency for Asylum has still to be approved and urges the Council to unblock this file as a matter of urgenco decide on granting asylum status on its territory;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. calls on the Member States to increase efforts and the amount of allocated resources to ensure an appropriate level of security at their borders;