7 Amendments of Julia PITERA related to 2018/2856(RSP)
Amendment 9 #
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the Committee on Petitions has no powers to annul court rulings and in most cases can only consider these petitions without having access to their full text, but only on the basis of the position expressed by one of the parents, namely the one addressing the petition;
Amendment 28 #
Paragraph 1
1. Notes with great concern that the Committee on Petitions in the last decade has received more than 30 petitions on parental responsibility or child custody in cross-border family disputes and the role of the German Youth Welfare Office (Jugendamt), and that many of them involving the alleged discrimination ofagainst the non-German parent and particularly reflect the views of the latter;
Amendment 31 #
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Recalls that the Committee on Petitions held a fact-finding mission to Germany in 2011, and that this fact- finding mission found no reason to conclude that non-German parents in cross-border marriages are subject to any discrimination by the German Youth Welfare Office (Jugendamt);
Amendment 34 #
Paragraph 2
2. Points to the long standing work of the Committee on Petitions treating petitions on the role of the German Youth Welfare Office (Jugendamt); acknowledges the detailed responses given by the competent German ministry and by a Jugendamt official, present in the relevant deliberations of the Committee on Petitions, on the functioning of the German family law system but underlines that the Committee on Petitions continuously receives petitions concerning alleged discrimination ofagainst the non- German parent;
Amendment 52 #
Paragraph 5
Amendment 59 #
Paragraph 9
9. Expresses its concern on cases raised by petitioners about short deadlines set by the competent authorities and about documents sent by the competent authorities not provided in the language of the petitioner; stresses the right to refuse acceptances of documents if not written or translated into a language the person understands as laid down in Article 8 (1) of Regulation No. 1393/2007; of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2007 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters;
Amendment 61 #
Paragraph 10
10. Reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States to co- finance and promote the establishment of a platforms providing assistance to non- national EU citizens in family proceeding, for example legal, linguistic, psychological, and educational assistance, to non- national EU citizens in family proceedings, such as the Polish Family Support Centre in the United Kingdom or the German Central Contact Point for Cross-border Family Conflicts;