2 Amendments of Adrian SEVERIN related to 2009/2241(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the ECHR has been developped not only through the additional Protocols, but also through other Conventions, Charters and Agreements, resulting into a continuously evolving system of protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms,
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that accession by the Union to the ECHR constitutes an essentialsignifies the recognition by the EU of the entire system of protection of Human Rights, as it was developped and codified in a number of other documents of the Council of Europe. Recommends that the EU accedes to all the other conventions and charters, present and future, of the Council of Europe, which are meant to complete and develop the sphere of rights and freedoms codified by the ECHR with the purpose of granting the European citizens an effective right to remedy with respect to the provisions of all these legal acts; in this sense, accession by the Union to the ECHR constitutes an essential first step which should subsequently be complemented by accession, among others, by the Union to the European Social Charter, signed in Turin on 18 October 1961 and revised in Strasbourg on 3 May 1996, which would be consistent with the progress already enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights and in the social legislation of the Union;