ddrg/super_eurlex huggingface dataset:
45.

Regrets that the judiciary is still one of the least-trusted institutions in Ukraine and is seriously concerned by the state it has been in since the October 2019 reform which led to the dismantling and reconstitution of the High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ) and resulted in the re-assessment and recruitment process for judges being put on hold, while around 2 000 judgeships are vacant; regrets the fact that in the past the HQCJ did not take into account the opinion of the Public Integrity Council in its re-assessment of judges, and urges it to do so in the future in order to fill vacancies in lower court instances with judges fulfilling ethical and integrity standards in full compliance with Opinion No 969/2019 of the Venice Commission; insists on an early re-establishment of the HQCJ based on an amendment of Law No 3711 in a manner consistent with decision No 4-p/2020 of 11 March 2020 of the Ukrainian Constitutional Court so as to establish an independent HQCJ based on a transparent selection procedure, with the involvement of international experts; considers that an empowered HQCJ should be able to effectively carry out the selection of new, and the vetting of sitting, judges in line with rules and procedures adopted by the HQCJ itself, according to its mandate; strongly insists on an integrity check of the unreformed High Council of Justice (HCJ); urges the Ukrainian authorities to continue and accelerate the reform of the judiciary in order not to undermine the work of the newly established anti-corruption institutions, to refrain from politically motivated trials and the instrumentalisation of the judiciary against political opponents, and to complete the legal framework for combating organised crime;
15.

Welcomes the first phase of the current EU peer review consisting of a site visit in early February 2021; stresses the importance of the timely completion of the peer review process and the publication of its findings, and that at least a preliminary report should be transmitted to Belarus already before March 2021 when the commercial start of the plant is planned by the Belarusian authorities; notes that all safety issues are equally important and must be addressed before the commercial start of the plant;
49.

Welcomes the country’s efforts in improving cooperation on managing irregular migration, border protection and addressing the basic needs of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants; calls for the further strengthening of international protection for those in need and for the prevention of violations of international law, such as alleged pushbacks; calls on the authorities to put in place an active monitoring mechanism, and to undertake the necessary steps to prevent these violations of international law; underlines that the contribution of North Macedonia to the protection of the European Union’s external border is of crucial importance, and calls on the EU to intensify its support to border protection in the region; notes the progress made in tackling human trafficking and smuggling, and recalls the need to establish a viable mechanism for managing irregular migratory flows and to combat people smuggling networks, as the country remains on one of the main migratory transit routes; notes the ongoing cooperation, and supports the finalisation of the status agreement with the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) that would facilitate better protection of borders and the fight against cross border crime in full respect of fundamental rights; encourages the country to move forward with the adoption of a strategy on the integration of migrants, including reintegration of returnees;
6.

Calls on the Member States to prioritise funding for children’s rights according to the needs identified at national and regional level and strongly encourages them to go beyond the predefined allocations in EU funding schemes; calls on the Member States to inform, train and support local and regional authorities in securing EU funding; calls on Member States to ensure a coordinated approach in the programming and implementation of EU funds, and to speed up their implementation and dedicate all possible national resources, complemented by EU funds such as the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and the Territories of Europe (React-EU), the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), InvestEU, Erasmus+, the Asylum and Migration Fund (AMF) and EU4Health, to the fight against child poverty and social exclusion; recalls that Member States must include dedicated measures investing in children and young people in their national recovery and resilience plans in order to access the fund, as per the ‘Next Generation’ pillar of the RRF; recalls the possibilities afforded by Next Generation EU to provide financial support also to organisations, for example NGOs and charities, and social help to families in need; calls, in this regard, on all Member States, not only those most affected by child poverty, to allocate at least 5 % of the ESF+ resources under shared management to supporting activities under the European Child Guarantee;
E.

whereas prosecutors brought charges on the basis of a complaint by a former MAS Member of Congress, and allege that the aforementioned individuals ‘promoted, directed, were members and supported’ organisations whose objective was to break Bolivia’s ‘constitutional order’; whereas prosecutors charged Jeanine Áñez as interim President but not as a civilian or in the capacity of any other public role; whereas Articles 159(11), 160(6), 161(7) and 184(4) of the 2009 Constitution and the Law of 8 October 2010 provide for a special procedure for the judgment of the President, Vice-President and the high authorities of different tribunals; whereas the judicial procedure against President Áñez, followed by the prosecution, does not comply with Bolivian constitutional law; whereas the evidence in the accompanying documentation seems unclear;
2.

Calls for Euranet Plus’s current core funding to be renewed in the form of a transitional grant agreement for at least two years to enable it to develop a long-term strategic plan to develop the network further by the end of 2027, with a view to expanding its membership and geographic and linguistic coverage, preparing for the digital shift, and investing in further improvements to its products and services; requests that the Commission’s Directorates-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) and Budget (DG BUDG) form an interinstitutional working group with Euranet Plus and the CULT Committee in order to find the appropriate technical solutions to implement a multiannual operational framework; underlines that such transitional measures will allow the organisation to equip itself for a competitive, multiannual process that could start in 2024; emphasises that this approach will create the most added value in terms of sustainability, efficiency and a sound use of EU public funding, as opposed to short-term procedures that not only force beneficiaries to live a hand-to-mouth existence but are also more costly in administrative terms;
A.

whereas Swedish-Iranian national Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, who specialises in emergency medicine and is a scholar at Belgium’s Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Italy’s Università del Piemonte Orientale, was arrested on 24 April 2016 by the Iranian security forces; whereas he was sentenced to death on spurious espionage charges in October 2017 following a grossly unfair trial based on a confession extracted under torture; whereas the sentence was upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court on 17 June 2018; whereas in a letter he wrote in Evin prison in Tehran, he stated that he had been imprisoned during a trip to Iran for refusing to spy on European institutions; whereas he was informed by the prosecutor’s office on 24 November 2020 that his execution was imminent and was then transferred to solitary confinement for over 100 days until April 2021, after which he was transferred to one of the general wings; whereas he has been denied visits and phone calls with his family in Sweden; whereas his death sentence has not been commuted since his transfer to a general wing; whereas he has only had intermittent access to his lawyer in the past seven months and had no access prior to that;
21.

Emphasises that ex ante impact assessments together with stakeholder consultations are important tools in order to reach well-informed decisions and are a key instrument to ensure that subsidiarity and proportionality are respected and to promote accountability and efficiency; underlines the need to promote and encourage regular dialogue and proper and transparent consultation with all relevant stakeholders; welcomes the use of better law-making tools and cooperation with different relevant experts at EU level when drafting impact assessments; underlines the need to simplify these tools and make them easier to understand and use for stakeholders; underlines that there is an urgent need to improve impact assessments in general when it comes to subsidiarity and proportionality; stresses that all impact assessments, evaluations and fitness checks should involve an analysis of subsidiarity and proportionality; welcomes the use of instruments such as the regulatory fitness and performance programme (REFIT) and the Regulatory Scrutiny Board, which since 2017 have sought to identify opportunities for simplification and reducing unnecessary costs prior to the Commission proposing the revision of any existing law; further welcomes the inclusion of initiatives that result from this work in the annual Commission work programmes, and to be monitored in the REFIT Scoreboard; notes in this context that the 2020 Commission work programme includes 44 initiatives under the REFIT exercise; highlights that such processes should take into consideration economic, environmental and social impacts in an integrated and balanced way and use both qualitative and quantitative analyses, as well as addressing the costs of non-harmonisation at EU level; points out that the scrutiny instruments can be further supported and enhanced by other tools such as the Fit for Future (F4F) platform or other similar dedicated platforms; believes that the REFIT platform should be expanded to widen its focus from regulatory burdens to matters of subsidiarity and proportionality; recalls that making regulation which is ‘fit for the future’ entails, among other things, ensuring its economic, social and environmental sustainability; welcomes the fact that the two principles are part of the quality review performed by the Regulatory Scrutiny Board; emphasises, however, that the independence of the board could be further improved;
24.

Underlines that the decision on conflicts of interest of Commissioners-designate prior to hearings remains a democratic and institutional competence of Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs; stresses in this regard that the future independent EU ethics body should be given appropriate investigative powers, as well as the power to request and have access to administrative documents, in order to allow it to carry out well-reasoned and well-documented assessments; stresses the need for full compliance with the rules on confidentiality, privacy and personal data protection in verifying the implications of a conflict of interest; is of the opinion that the Committee on Legal Affairs should be given more time and that, while fully keeping its competence on the matter, the Committee on Legal Affairs should decide on the existence of a conflict of interest of Commissioners-designate after having received non-binding, precise and reasoned recommendations by the independent EU ethics body, which would have the effect of strengthening its action; considers that the Committee on Legal Affairs should ultimately hold a debate on the recommendations issued by the independent EU ethics body; considers that the recommendations should be published along with the declarations of financial interests of Commissioners-designate; considers that, beyond the scrutiny of the declarations of Commissioners-designate by the Committee on Legal Affairs, the examination of conflicts of interest should be carried out, in general, prior to, during and after public office or employment, for all Union institutions, bodies, offices, and agencies; further believes that it should be provided with sufficient resources, tools and skills to cross-check and locate necessary information, as well as to ask for complementary information where necessary;
24.

Welcomes the recent rounds of sanctions imposed by the Council against members of the Tatmadaw and their businesses, and calls on the Council to continue imposing targeted and robust sanctions, with the aim of cutting off the lifelines of the junta while ensuring that the people of Myanmar come to no harm; is of the opinion that the international community must continue to take additional action against, and impose costs on, the military and its leaders until they reverse course and provide for a return to democracy; stresses the need for all EU Member States to strengthen and enforce sanctions imposed against any state-run Myanmar businesses, notably in the timber and gem industry; urges the Commission to ensure that national penalties imposed on Member States and associated countries for breaching EU sanctions are effective; stresses that this would require imposing specific asset freezes and bans on international financial transfers to the two state-owned banks, the Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank and the Myanmar Investment and Commercial Bank, through which all foreign currency is collected, and adding to the sanctions list the state-owned Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise, which generates the junta’s single largest foreign currency inflow;
8.

Emphasises that the comprehensive governance model based on international law has benefited all Arctic states and the region as a whole, and has provided predictability and stability in the region; underlines that the existing regional structures foster trust and cooperation between Arctic states; stresses that the Arctic states hold the primary responsibility for tackling issues within their territories; points, however, to the fact that external forces have a key impact on current and future challenges in the region; reiterates that international law is the cornerstone of the legal framework regulating international relations in the Arctic, and underlines the importance of the UNCLOS as the basis of all maritime activity, and particularly Part XV thereof, with regard to the peaceful settlement of maritime disputes and the different dispute resolution procedures for the delimitation of the Arctic continental shelf and for settling intra-Arctic sovereignty issues as regards territorial seas; repeats its call for the EU and the Member States to play a stronger role in the effective implementation of international conventions and calls on the US to ratify the UNCLOS; also underlines the importance of the international bodies established under the UNCLOS, including the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS), the International Seabed Authority (ISA) and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), as well as of platforms such as the Arctic Council, the Conference of Arctic Parliamentarians, the Barents Euro-Arctic-Council, the Northern Dimension and the United Nations, and remains committed to a strong and active participation in parliamentary cooperation on Arctic matters;
2.

Urges both the Government of Cameroon and the political and military leaders of separatist groups to agree on a humanitarian ceasefire and encourages the parties to the conflict to agree on confidence-building measures, such as the freeing of non-violent political prisoners and the lifting of school boycotts; urges President Biya’s government and the Anglophone separatists to immediately re-initiate peace talks; urges the international community, especially the African Union, Central African states and the EU, to help facilitate dialogue by offering to take on a mediation role; underlines the importance of regional collaboration and urges the government to work closely with the African Union and the Economic Community of Central African States; deplores the failure and unwillingness of both parties to the conflict to engage in truly meaningful peace talks to solve the conflict; is convinced that political dialogue, conducted in a spirit of compromise, effective political participation and inclusion, including that of all relevant stakeholders, is the only way forward to reach lasting peace; calls on both the Government of Cameroon and leaders of separatist groups to make use of the existing mediation offers provided by third parties for immediate and direct negotiations;
17.

Recalls that the scoreboard will serve as a basis for the recovery and resilience dialogue and that the Commission should update it biannually; calls on the Commission, in this regard, to ensure that the progress achieved in the implementation of the milestones and targets set out is monitored thoroughly and strictly in line with the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) Regulation, on the basis of the established common indicators and reporting methodology; recalls moreover that the RRF is bound by conditions that guarantee the transparent use of the money disbursed and that should prevent corruption or fraud, double funding or conflicts of interest, and believes that controls should be extended also to costs actually incurred by the final beneficiaries; welcomes the fact that, thanks to the European Parliament, Member States are now obliged to provide information on final recipients;
L.

whereas the Russian ‘foreign agents’ law was adopted in 2012 and expanded last year by the Russian Parliament in ways that could apply to any public critic or activist; whereas the number of organisations and individuals that the authorities have designated as ‘foreign agents’ has drastically increased in recent months; whereas this law has been used by the Russian authorities to facilitate the crackdown on independent civil society active in Russia, targeting NGOs, human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, women’s rights and LGBTIQ+ rights activists, and environmental activists; whereas this law, as well as legislation on ‘undesirable organisations’ and on ‘countering extremist activity’, violates Russia’s own Constitution and international human rights obligations, in particular concerning the freedom of association and expression, the right to privacy, the right to participate in public affairs and the prohibition of discrimination; whereas the example of Memorial clearly demonstrates how these laws are used by the Russian authorities as a tool to intimidate and silence critics and independent voices;
9.

Takes note of the ECB’s decision to increase the size of the PEPP from the initial EUR 750 billion to EUR 1 850 billion; notes that the ECB will continue to conduct net asset purchases under the PEPP until the COVID-19 crisis phase is over and in any case until at least the end of March 2022; notes that the ECB has recently slowed the pace of net asset purchases under the PEPP, based on the position of its Governing Council that favourable financing conditions can be maintained with a moderately lower pace; highlights President Lagarde’s statement of 10 June 2021 that ‘any discussion about exit from the PEPP […] would be premature, it’s too early and it will come in due course’; invites the ECB to continue purchases under the PEPP for as long as it deems necessary to meet its mandate; notes the ECB’s intention to examine further calibration of asset purchases; notes also President Lagarde’s statement that, even after the expected end of the pandemic emergency, it will still be important that monetary policy, including the appropriate calibration of asset purchases, supports the recovery throughout the euro area and the sustainable return of inflation to the target of 2 %;
P9_TA(2022)0008

Objection to a delegated act: Determining cases where identity data may be considered as same or similar for the purpose of the multiple identity detection pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/818

European Parliament resolution of 20 January 2022 on the Commission delegated regulation of 29 September 2021 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/818 of the European Parliament and Council as regards determining cases where identity data may be considered as same or similar for the purpose of the multiple identity detection (C(2021)05057 — 2021/2912(DEA))

(2022/C 336/12)

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Commission delegated regulation (C(2021)05057),

— having regard to Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

— having regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/818 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2019 on establishing a framework for interoperability between EU information systems in the field of police and judicial cooperation, asylum and migration and amending Regulations (EU) 2018/1726, (EU) 2018/1862 and (EU) 2019/816 (1), and in particular Articles 28(5) and 69 (6) thereof,

— having regard to Rule 111(3) of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to the motion for a resolution by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs,

A. whereas Article 3 of the Commission delegated regulation provides that the cases where identity data may be considered as similar are set out in Annex II thereto;

B. whereas Annex II, point 2, of the Commission delegated regulation provides that ‘eu-LISA shall use an algorithm in order to calculate the similarity between identity data across different data fields from the different EU information systems’;

C. whereas Annex II, point 2, of the Commission delegated regulation further provides that ‘[t]hat algorithm shall be based on previously established thresholds of similarity.’;

D. whereas Annex II, point 2, of the Commission delegated regulation moreover provides that ‘[i]n order to define that algorithm, eu-LISA shall be assisted and advised by experts from the Commission, the Member States and the Union agencies using the EU information systems and interoperability components.’;

E. whereas Article 28(5) of Regulation (EU) 2019/818 requires the Commission to adopt delegated acts laying down the procedures to determine the cases in which identity data can be considered to be the same or similar;

F. whereas the Commission delegated regulation clearly does not lay down the procedures to determine the cases in which identity data can be considered to be similar, but sub-delegates that power to eu-LISA and to experts from the Commission, the Member States and the Union agencies using the EU information systems and interoperability components;

1. Objects to the Commission delegated regulation;

2. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission and to notify it that the delegated regulation cannot enter into force;

3. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and to the governments and parliaments of the Member States.

(1) OJ L 135, 22.5.2019, p. 85.