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13 Amendments of Jean-Paul GARRAUD related to 2022/2051(INL)

Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. SupporRejects the proposals madetaken over by the plenary of the Conference on the Future of Europe (‘the Conference’) of 9 May 2022 in relation to the field of civil liberties, justice and home affairs1; calls up, therefore, on the Union to not to promorte systematically uphold the rule of law principles and ensure fundamental rights protection, and to scrutinize respect for these values and principles, bopositive action employment schemes, easier access to the labour market for migrants, education for Europeans on migration issues, increased EU support for NGOs that encourage the in the accession of new members and continually across all Union pollegal entry of migrants, simplification of asylum applications, redistribution of responsibilicties and across the Member Statemigrants among Member States, or better reception facilities for asylum seekers; _________________ 1 In particular the following proposals: 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 45.
2022/12/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the abolishment ofsupport for all unanimity requirements in the Treaties for adopting legislation in the area of freedom, security and justice, including for the use of passerelle clauses;
2022/12/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that the Union’s main political instrument to address and reverse systemic rule of law threats and violations in the Member States, Article 7 TEU, has been wholly ineffective as the rule of law situation further deteriorated since the activation of the procedure in relation to both Poland and Hungary;2therefore, considers it necessary to reform Article 7 TEU as follows: to change the Council voting thresholds of Article 7(1) TEU from four-fifths majority to qualified majority voting, and of Article 7(2) TEU from unanimity to a four-fifths majority; to involve the institution which triggers Article 7(1) TEU throughout the procedure;3to require the Council to periodically organize hearings, draft country-specific recommendations and evaluate their implementation under Article 7(1) TEU; to involve the Parliament and the Commission in drafting modalities for the 7(1) TEU hearings;4to allow the Parliament to trigger Article 7(2) TEU; to invite the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (‘FRA’) to give its input during the Article 7(1) hearings; _________________ 2 European Parliament resolution of 16 January 2020 on ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) of the TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (2020/2513(RSP)); European Parliament resolution of 5 May 2022 on ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (2022/2647(RSP)). 3 European Parliament resolution of 16 January 2020 on ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) of the TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (2020/2513(RSP)). 4 European Parliament resolution of 7 October 2020 on the establishment of an EU Mechanism on Democracy, the Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights (2020/2072(INI).deleted
2022/12/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls that the Union acted outside its powers in adopting the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation, going beyond the competences conferred upon it in the Treaties by the Member States; stresses, furthermore, that the Regulation infringes the principle of legal certainty; rejects, therefore, the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation in its entirety; considers, too, that it is essentially a political tool for bypassing the principle of unanimity laid down in Article 7 of the EU Treaty and it thus infringes EU law;
2022/12/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the Treaties currently do not contain a legal basis to introduce legislation to defend the common values expressed in Article 2 TEU and that this absence has seriously limited the Union in creating suitable mechanisms to redress national threats to the common values; calls for the inclusion of such a provision, which would allow the Union, through the ordinary legislative proceduCondemns the desire to turn the European Union into a tool of persecution for many states rejecting its pro-immigration and pro-fre,e to introduce new mechanisms for the structural monitoring and assessment of the developments as regards the common values in each Member State, including annual reports on the srade ideology; calls for respect for the constituation as regards the Article 2 TEU values in each of the Member States, and to issue country- specific recommendations and impose measures in case of lack of remedial actional identity of the Member States;
2022/12/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for a widening of the scope of application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in relation to the Member States; to that effect, Article 51(1) Charter could be revised so as to state that EU fundamental rights should protect Union citizens whenever Member States act within the scope of a Union competence, whether exclusive or shared, even if such a competence has not yet been exercised by the Union;5 ; _________________ 5 In light of AG Sharpston’s opinion of 30 September 2010 in Case C-34/09, Zambrano.deleted
2022/12/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the European Commission to stop using migrants' fundamental rights as an excuse to exacerbate the rising tide of migrants in the European Union;
2022/12/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Requests giving the FRA a foundation in the Treaties, including laying down, in accordance with the UN General Assembly’s Paris Principles of 1993, its status as an authority independent from both the EU institutions and the Member States, its powers and its new mandate, and introducing the ordinary legislathe dissolution of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, which is a genuine catalyst for the rising tivde procedure for amending its mandatof migration into Europe;
2022/12/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
11. Considers it necessary to give the CJEU full jurisdiction on the common foreign and security policy in view of the potential impact of those policy areas on Article 2 TEU values and the fundamental rights protection, which is moreover an essential requirement towards accession of the Union to the European Convention for Human Rights;deleted
2022/12/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for the introduction in the TFEU of a new shared Union competence for setting up an effective legal framewban on, and penalties fork, againstny disinformation and on holding media undertakings, social networks, and online platforms responsible to counter disinformationprovided by the various bodies of the European Union; calls on these institutions to respect freedom of expression in the Member States;
2022/12/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15
15. Believes these form a sound basis to respond to calls from citizens expressed at the Conference6which included strengthening the EU’s role on legal migration, on asylum, on addressing irregular migration, and on strengthening the protection of the European Union's external borders, while respecting fundamental rights, as well as for reform of the common European asylum system and for applying common rules uniformly in all Member States on the reception of migrants and for improving integration policies in all Member States; _________________ 6 Recommendations Nos 41 to 45, see https://www.europarl.europa.eu/resources /library/media/20220509RES29121/20220 509RES29121.pdfdeleted
2022/12/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Is surprised that a number of proposals aimed at countering the immigration policy, and supported by the citizens on the Conference on the Future of Europe's digital platform, were not taken over; condemns this censorship of the will of a majority of Europeans and calls for the reasons for it to be given;
2022/12/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses however that action at EU level remains incomplete due to the institutional imbalance between the co- legislators; recommendsNotes the rising tide of migration in the European Union, encouraged by the European Commission, and its harmful effects; supports, therefore, that the ordinary legislative procedure applye Member States that are seeking to chall Union policies on border checks, asylum and immigration, including for the evaluation of the implementation of those policies (Article 70 TFEU); calls for competences to be fully shared between the EU and the Member States, including for harmonisation of the laws and regulations ofenge the Family Reunification Directive, opt out of the common asylum policy more generally and strengthen the protection of the EU's external borders; recalls that, according to the Commission itself, the Menumber States, which at the moment excludes integration measures, even though integration is the natural end point for efforts to develop common rules from the arrival ofof illegal immigrants readmitted to their countries of origin is particularly low; calls, therefore, for additional resources to be used to send these illegal immigrants back to theird- country nationals into the EU and is a key part of the implementationies of origin; condemns the pro- immigration drift of the Court of Justice of the Common European Asylum SystemUnion;
2022/12/15
Committee: LIBE