10 Amendments of Xabier BENITO ZILUAGA related to 2018/0248(COD)
Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In its conclusions of 19 October 2017, the European Council reaffirmed the need to pursue a comprehensive, pragmatic and resolute approach to migration management that aims to restore control of external borders and reduce irregular arrivals and the number of deaths at sea, and should be based on a flexible and coordinated use of all available Union and Member State instruments. This approach is proving controversial, failing to take account of the drastic reduction in migrant figures recorded by the International Organisation for Migration over the last three years, which has not prevented a humanitarian crisis of massive proportions owing to control procedures that are endangering the lives of those being forced to make the journey. The European Council further called to ensure significantly enhanced returns through actions at both EU and Member States level, such as effective readmission agreements and arrangements.
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The Fund should support the efficient management of migration flows, inter alia by promoting common measures in the area of asylum, including Member States’ efforts in receiving persons in need of international protection through resettlement and the transfer of applicants for or beneficiaries of international protection between Member States, supporting integration strategies and a more effective legal migration policy, so as to ensure the Union’s long-term competitivenesslong-term solidarity in the Union and the future of its social model and reduce incentives for irregular migration through a sustainable return and readmission policchannelling irregular migration, focusing on international policies that reduce the motivation for forced migration and the continued use of unsafe routes for those with no option but to flee their country. The Fund should support the strengthening of cooperation with third countries to reinforce management of flows of persons applying for asylum or other forms of international protection, avenues on legal migration and to counterdirect irregular migration and ensure sustainability of return and effective readmission to third countriethrough ordered channels.
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Considering the high levels ofat migration flows to the Union in the last years cand the importance of ensuring the cohesion of our societie be absorbed by societies as wealthy as those in Europe and have actually been diminishing over the last three years, it is crucial to support Member States’ policies for early integration of legally staying third-country nationals, including in the priority areas identified in the Action Plan on Integration of third-country nationals adopted by the Commission in 2016.
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) Member States should give preference tomay provide the option for voluntary return. In order to promofacilitate voluntary return, Member States should envisage incentives such as preferential treatment in the form of enhanced return assistance should be envisaged for the voluntary return of persons. This kind of voluntary return is in the interests of both returnees and the authorities in terms of its cost- effectiveness.
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) Voluntary and enforced returns are nevertheless interlinked, with mutually reinforcing effect, and Member States shoulThe forced return of migrants can only be justified twherefore be encouraged to reinforce the complementarities between these two forms of return. The possibility of removals is an important elem evidence exists that a serious crime has beent contributing to the integrity of the asylum and legal migration systems. The Fund should therefore support actions of Member States to facilitate and carry out removals in accordance with the standards laid down in Union law, where applicable, and with full respect for the fundamental rights and dignity of returneesmmitted, infringing national law and causing injury to a person in the host territory.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) In addition to supporting the return of persons as provided for in this Regulation, the Fund should also support other measures to counter irregular migration, address incentives for illegal migration or the circumventingThe fund must be deployed in the three main areas of forced migration: the reasons for population displacement in countries impoverished by the international division of labour, climate change, armed conflicts, and ideological, ethnic or political persecution; measures to channel displaced people along safe and regulated routes; and an orderly integration process in the country of dexisting legal migration rules, thereby safeguarding the integrity of Member States’ imation. This approach will make it possible to guarantee the right to choose the territory of preference, including the territory of origin, thereby obviating one of the underlying factors behind forced migration systems.
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) The employment of irregular migrants creates a pull factor for illegal migrationn opportunity for exploiting migrant labour and undermines the development of a labour mobility policy built on lregalulated migration schemes accompanied by guarantees. The Fund should therefore support Member States, either directly or indirectly, in their implementation of Directive 2009/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council16, which prohibits the employment of illegally staying third-country nationals and provides for sanctions against employers who infrvides for sanctions against employers who fail to respect the labour rights of those in their charge, making them responsible for regularisinge that prohibitione situation of their workers. _________________ 16 Directive 2009/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 providing for minimum standards on sanctions and measures against employers of illegally staying third-country nationals (OJ L 168, 30.6.2009, p. 24).
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) These initial amounts should form a basis for Member States’ long-term investments. To take account of changes in migration flows and to address needs in the management of asylum and reception systems and integration of legally staying third-country nationals, and counter irregular migration through efficient and sustainable return policy, an additional amount should be allocated to the Member States at mid-term taking into account the absorption rates. This amount should be based on the latest available statistical data as set out in Annex I to reflect the changes in the baseline situation of Member States.
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 44
Recital 44
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) to contribute to countering irreducing the causes of forced migration, that is to say poverty as a regsular migration and ensuring effectiveness of return and readmission in third countriet of the unequal international division of labour, climate change, armed conflicts and social, ethnic or political persecution; to provide safe routes, as well as funding to ensure settlement under acceptable conditions.