# CE2009295EN.01002301.xml

| 4.12.2009 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | CE 295/23 |
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4.12.2009

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

CE 295/23

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Tuesday 2 September 2008Emergency cooperation in recovering missing children

P6_TA(2008)0391

Declaration of the European Parliament on emergency cooperation in recovering missing children

2009/C 295 E/07

The European Parliament,

The European Parliament

having regard to Rule 116 of its Rules of Procedure,

| A. | whereas the abduction of a child is amongst the most inhumane of crimes, |
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whereas the abduction of a child is amongst the most inhumane of crimes,

| B. | whereas the commission of such crimes is increasing in Europe and may involve transporting victims across state borders, |
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whereas the commission of such crimes is increasing in Europe and may involve transporting victims across state borders,

| C. | whereas the prospects of saving the life of an abducted child decrease as time passes, |
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whereas the prospects of saving the life of an abducted child decrease as time passes,

| D. | whereas there is no Europe-wide system of alert for child disappearances nor any local or national systems throughout much of the European Union, |
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whereas there is no Europe-wide system of alert for child disappearances nor any local or national systems throughout much of the European Union,

| 1. | Calls on Member States to introduce a missing child alert system, which, when activated, would require the immediate forwarding to the relevant news media, border authorities and customs and law enforcement agencies of:






  — | details of the missing child, with a photograph if available, |
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Calls on Member States to introduce a missing child alert system, which, when activated, would require the immediate forwarding to the relevant news media, border authorities and customs and law enforcement agencies of:

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details of the missing child, with a photograph if available,

| — | information relevant to the disappearance and the suspected abductor(s), |
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information relevant to the disappearance and the suspected abductor(s),

| — | a telephone number to call with information (116 000, where operational); |
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a telephone number to call with information (116 000, where operational);

| 2. | Calls on the Member States to reach cooperation agreements with all bordering states to ensure the capability of raising an alert rapidly across any relevant territories; |
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Calls on the Member States to reach cooperation agreements with all bordering states to ensure the capability of raising an alert rapidly across any relevant territories;

| 3. | Calls for the development of a common organisation to provide assistance and training to national bodies; |
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Calls for the development of a common organisation to provide assistance and training to national bodies;

| 4. | Instructs its President to forward this declaration, together with the names of the signatories, to the Council and the Commission. |
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4.

Instructs its President to forward this declaration, together with the names of the signatories, to the Council and the Commission.

List of signatories

Adamos Adamou, Vittorio Agnoletto, Vincenzo Aita, Gabriele Albertini, Jim Allister, Alexander Alvaro, Georgs Andrejevs, Emmanouil Angelakas, Roberta Angelilli, Stavros Arnaoutakis, Richard James Ashworth, Robert Atkins, John Attard-Montalto, Elspeth Attwooll, Marie-Hélène Aubert, Margrete Auken, Liam Aylward, Mariela Velichkova Baeva, Paolo Bartolozzi, Domenico Antonio Basile, Gerard Batten, Alessandro Battilocchio, Katerina Batzeli, Jean Marie Beaupuy, Christopher Beazley, Zsolt László Becsey, Ivo Belet, Irena Belohorská, Jean-Luc Bennahmias, Sergio Berlato, Thijs Berman, Slavi Binev, Sebastian Valentin Bodu, Herbert Bösch, Jens-Peter Bonde, Vito Bonsignore, Graham Booth, Mario Borghezio, Costas Botopoulos, Catherine Boursier, Bernadette Bourzai, John Bowis, Sharon Bowles, Iles Braghetto, Mihael Brejc, Frieda Brepoels, André Brie, Danutė Budreikaitė, Paul van Buitenen, Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg, Udo Bullmann, Ieke van den Burg, Colm Burke, Philip Bushill-Matthews, Niels Busk, Cristian Silviu Bușoi, Philippe Busquin, Simon Busuttil, Jerzy Buzek, Milan Cabrnoch, Martin Callanan, Mogens Camre, Marco Cappato, Marie-Arlette Carlotti, Giorgio Carollo, David Casa, Paulo Casaca, Michael Cashman, Carlo Casini, Giuseppe Castiglione, Giusto Catania, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Giles Chichester, Ole Christensen, Fabio Ciani, Derek Roland Clark, Luigi Cocilovo, Carlos Coelho, Richard Corbett, Giovanna Corda, Titus Corlățean, Thierry Cornillet, Paolo Costa, Jean Louis Cottigny, Paul Marie Coûteaux, Michael Cramer, Gabriela Crețu, Brian Crowley, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Hanne Dahl, Daniel Dăianu, Chris Davies, Bairbre de Brún, Panayiotis Demetriou, Gérard Deprez, Proinsias De Rossa, Marielle De Sarnez, Marie-Hélène Descamps, Harlem Désir, Albert Deß, Nirj Deva, Christine De Veyrac, Mia De Vits, Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Alexandra Dobolyi, Beniamino Donnici, Bert Doorn, Brigitte Douay, Den Dover, Avril Doyle, Mojca Drčar Murko, Petr Duchoň, Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop, Andrew Duff, Árpád Duka-Zólyomi, Constantin Dumitriu, Michl Ebner, Lena Ek, James Elles, Edite Estrela, Jill Evans, Jonathan Evans, Robert Evans, Nigel Farage, Markus Ferber, Emanuel Jardim Fernandes, Francesco Ferrari, Ilda Figueiredo, Petru Filip, Roberto Fiore, Věra Flasarová, Hélène Flautre, Alessandro Foglietta, Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, Glyn Ford, Brigitte Fouré, Janelly Fourtou, Milan Gaľa, Elisabetta Gardini, Giuseppe Gargani, Evelyne Gebhardt, Georgios Georgiou, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Maciej Marian Giertych, Neena Gill, Ioannis Gklavakis, Ana Maria Gomes, Donata Gottardi, Genowefa Grabowska, Louis Grech, Nathalie Griesbeck, Lissy Gröner, Elly de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Mathieu Grosch, Françoise Grossetête, Lilli Gruber, Ignasi Guardans Cambó, Ambroise Guellec, Pedro Guerreiro, Catherine Guy-Quint, Fiona Hall, Benoît Hamon, Małgorzata Handzlik, Gábor Harangozó, Malcolm Harbour, Marian Harkin, Joel Hasse Ferreira, Satu Hassi, Christopher Heaton-Harris, Anna Hedh, Roger Helmer, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Jim Higgins, Mary Honeyball, Richard Howitt, Ján Hudacký, Ian Hudghton, Stephen Hughes, Jana Hybášková, Filiz Hakaeva Hyusmenova, Sophia in 't Veld, Iliana Malinova Iotova, Mikel Irujo Amezaga, Marie Anne Isler Béguin, Caroline Jackson, Lily Jacobs, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Lívia Járóka, Anne E. Jensen, Romana Jordan Cizelj, Ona Juknevičienė, Jelko Kacin, Filip Kaczmarek, Syed Kamall, Sajjad Karim, Ioannis Kasoulides, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Robert Kilroy-Silk, Glenys Kinnock, Evgeni Kirilov, Wolf Klinz, Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, Maria Eleni Koppa, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Guntars Krasts, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, Urszula Krupa, Sepp Kusstatscher, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Joost Lagendijk, Alain Lamassoure, Jean Lambert, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Vytautas Landsbergis, Anne Laperrouze, Romano Maria La Russa, Vincenzo Lavarra, Henrik Lax, Johannes Lebech, Kurt Lechner, Bernard Lehideux, Klaus-Heiner Lehne, Jo Leinen, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Bogusław Liberadzki, Marcin Libicki, Pia Elda Locatelli, Andrea Losco, Caroline Lucas, Sarah Ludford, Astrid Lulling, Elizabeth Lynne, Marusya Ivanova Lyubcheva, Jules Maaten, Linda McAvan, Arlene McCarthy, Mary Lou McDonald, Mairead McGuinness, Edward McMillan-Scott, Jamila Madeira, Toine Manders, Ramona Nicole Mănescu, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Catiuscia Marini, David Martin, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, Véronique Mathieu, Yiannakis Matsis, Mario Mauro, Manolis Mavrommatis, Erik Meijer, Marianne Mikko, Gay Mitchell, Viktória Mohácsi, Claude Moraes, Eluned Morgan, Luisa Morgantini, Philippe Morillon, Elisabeth Morin, Jan Mulder, Roberto Musacchio, Cristiana Muscardini, Joseph Muscat, Sebastiano (Nello) Musumeci, Pasqualina Napoletano, Robert Navarro, Cătălin-Ioan Nechifor, Catherine Neris, Bill Newton Dunn, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, James Nicholson, null Nicholson of Winterbourne, Vural Öger, Seán Ó Neachtain, Gérard Onesta, Dumitru Oprea, Josu Ortuondo Larrea, Miroslav Ouzký, Siiri Oviir, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Pier Antonio Panzeri, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Atanas Paparizov, Georgios Papastamkos, Neil Parish, Aldo Patriciello, Vincent Peillon, Maria Petre, Willi Piecyk, Rihards Pīks, João de Deus Pinheiro, Józef Pinior, Umberto Pirilli, Lapo Pistelli, Gianni Pittella, Zita Pleštinská, Rovana Plumb, Guido Podestà, Anni Podimata, Samuli Pohjamo, Lydie Polfer, José Javier Pomés Ruiz, Mihaela Popa, Pierre Pribetich, Vittorio Prodi, Jacek Protasiewicz, John Purvis, Luís Queiró, Reinhard Rack, Bilyana Ilieva Raeva, Miloslav Ransdorf, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Karin Resetarits, José Ribeiro e Castro, Frédérique Ries, Karin Riis-Jørgensen, Giovanni Rivera, Giovanni Robusti, Bogusław Rogalski, Zuzana Roithová, Luca Romagnoli, Dagmar Roth-Behrendt, Libor Rouček, Martine Roure, Heide Rühle, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, Eoin Ryan, Tokia Saïfi, Aloyzas Sakalas, Manuel António dos Santos, Amalia Sartori, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Toomas Savi, Christel Schaldemose, Margaritis Schinas, György Schöpflin, Jürgen Schröder, Inger Segelström, Adrian Severin, José Albino Silva Peneda, Brian Simpson, Kathy Sinnott, Peter Skinner, Nina Škottová, Alyn Smith, Søren Bo Søndergaard, Bogusław Sonik, Jean Spautz, Bart Staes, Grażyna Staniszewska, Margarita Starkevičiūtė, Dirk Sterckx, Struan Stevenson, Catherine Stihler, Dimitar Stoyanov, Daniel Strož, Robert Sturdy, Margie Sudre, David Sumberg, Konrad Szymański, Hannu Takkula, Charles Tannock, Andres Tarand, Salvatore Tatarella, Britta Thomsen, Silvia-Adriana Țicău, Jeffrey Titford, Gary Titley, Patrizia Toia, László Tőkés, Ewa Tomaszewska, Witold Tomczak, Antonios Trakatellis, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Claude Turmes, Evangelia Tzampazi, Feleknas Uca, Vladimir Urutchev, Inese Vaidere, Nikolaos Vakalis, Frank Vanhecke, Anne Van Lancker, Geoffrey Van Orden, Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Ari Vatanen, Yannick Vaugrenard, Armando Veneto, Riccardo Ventre, Donato Tommaso Veraldi, Bernadette Vergnaud, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Cornelis Visser, Oldřich Vlasák, Dominique Vlasto, Diana Wallis, Graham Watson, Manfred Weber, Renate Weber, Åsa Westlund, Anders Wijkman, Glenis Willmott, Iuliu Winkler, Janusz Wojciechowski, Corien Wortmann-Kool, Anna Záborská, Jan Zahradil, Iva Zanicchi, Stefano Zappalà, Tatjana Ždanoka, Dushana Zdravkova, Vladimír Železný, Gabriele Zimmer, Marian Zlotea, Jaroslav Zvěřina, Tadeusz Zwiefka

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