6 Amendments of Marie-Christine VERGIAT related to 2012/2032(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers it essential to ensure cooperation with the countries of origin and transit of refugees through support for regional protection programmes, a suitable resettlement policy, diplomatic representations in third countries and the correct application of exceptions to visa rules to ensure improved access to the Common European Asylum System, in particular of Article 25 of the EU Visa Code which allows Member States to issue visas on humanitarian grounds ( a visa with limited territorial validity shall be issued exceptionally ... on humanitarian grounds, for reasons of national interest or because of international obligations);
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to provide without delay updated accurate and reliable information and data regarding asylum seekers and, such as detention centres, facilitating the provision of more reliable statistics and the centralisation of this information through the EASO, providing it with the necessary powers and resources in accordance with its founding regulation;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the EUREMA relocation pilot project to be more widely adopted and for Member States to participate more actively in such initiatives, and for the establishment of a permanent programme for resettlement between Member States of beneficiaries of international protection; emphasises that intra-EU relocation and resettlement programmes are complementary actions aimed at showing both intra- and extra-EU solidarity and neither of them should prejudice the other;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that the Dublin system has failed to meet its objective of establishing a fair division of asylum responsibilities between the Member States, as it disproportionately shifts responsibility towards Member States located at the external borders of the EU, and stresses the need to review and reform the logic underlying the Dublin Regulation and other mechanisms in order to consider how responsibility for asylum applications is allocated;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the need to ensure that people in need of international protection are able to enter the EU to gain access there to a fair asylum procedure without putting their lives at risk or falling into the hands of traffickers; reiterates, in this respect, the importance of establishing national protected entry procedures for asylum seekers in countries of origin and transit;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Recommends that Member States and the Commission draw up an EU protocol for the Mediterranean region in order to close the gaps which still remain in regard to the application of international laws concerning search and rescue areas, and in particular in connection with rescue, landing and reception services;