Activities of Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO related to 2020/2202(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the implementation report on the Agreement on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU
Amendments (8)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Recalls that children are protected by the Withdrawal Agreement, wherever they are born, before or after the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU, or whether they are born inside or outside the host state where the EU citizen or the UK national resides;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Recalls that those protected by the Withdrawal Agreement who have not yet acquired permanent residence rights – if they have not lived in the host state for at least five years – will be fully protected by the Withdrawal Agreement, and will be able to continue residing in the host state and acquire permanent residence rights in the host state after accumulating five years of residence;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Recalls that EU citizens and UK nationals who arrived in the host state before 1 January 2021 enjoy the same rights and obligations under the Withdrawal Agreement as those who arrived in the host state before 1 February 2020;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Recalls that EU citizens and UK nationals frontier workers and frontier self-employed persons are also protected in the countries where they work;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Recalls that the citizens covered by the Withdrawal Agreement maintain their right to healthcare, pensions and other social security benefits, and if they are entitled to a cash benefit from one country, they will in principle be entitled to receive it, even if they decide to live in another country; and that workers and self-employed persons concerned have the right to take up employment or to carry out an economic activity as a self- employed person;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that UK courts must pay due regard to CJEU case law handed down after the transition period, and the rights provided by the citizens’ rights section of the Agreement can be relied on directly by EU citizens in UK courts and by UK nationals in the courts of the Member States;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Considers that the EU Settlement Scheme’s requirement that EU citizens with pre-settled status have to make a second application to the scheme in order to be provided with the indefinite right to remain in the UK is problematic and puts citizens at a higher risk of missing deadlines, including the risk of automatic loss of their UK residence; is alarmed by very high levels of applicants who are only accorded the pre-settled status; highlights the difficulties that EU citizens may encounter in attempting to apply for settled or pre-settled status owing to the UK Home Office’s insistence on a digital- only approach to the application process;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Considers that the absence of a physical document creates the risk that many EU citizens and, in particular, the elderly, the people with disabilities and vulnerable and digitally challenged people will struggle to prove their rights; points out that the complexity of proving digital status may lead to the risk of discrimination against EU citizens; to this end, reaffirms the Parliament’s call for the issuing of a physical document as a proof of the EU citizens’ residing rights in the UK; points out that the complexity of proving digital status may lead to the risk of discrimination against EU citizens; stresses that it is fundamental to create smooth, simple and transparent administrative procedures accessible to all, and that administrative costs, if any, must not exceed those imposed on nationals for issuing similar documents;