Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2022 and 2023

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 1Rejected

   Recital C a (new)

   Tabled by Cristian Terheş · ECR

   Added: Ca. whereas the decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union are mandatory for the Member States as long as they do not contravene their national constitutions;

2. Amendment 2Rejected

   Citation 4

   Tabled by Cristian Terheş · ECR

   Removed: – having regard to Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget2 (the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation), 2 OJ L 433 I , 22.12.2020, p. 1. Added: deleted

3. Amendment 3Rejected

   Citation 15

   Tabled by Cristian Terheş · ECR

   Removed: – having regard to the Commission communication of 5 March 2020 entitled ‘A Union of Equality: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025’ (COM(2020)0152), Added: deleted

4. Amendment 4Rejected

   Citation 17

   Tabled by Cristian Terheş · ECR

   Removed: – having regard to the Commission communication of 12 November 2020 entitled ‘Union of Equality: LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025’ (COM(2020)0698), Added: deleted

5. Amendment 5Rejected

   Citation 22

   Tabled by Cristian Terheş · ECR

   Removed: – having regard to the Commission communication of 5 July 2023 entitled ‘2023 Rule of Law Report – The rule of law situation in the European Union’ (COM(2023)0800), the 27 country chapters and its accompanying recommendations to the Member States, Added: deleted

6. Amendment 6Rejected

   Citation 34

   Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Bert-Jan Ruissen · ECR

   Removed: – having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, which was opened for signature in Istanbul on 11 May 2011 (‘the Istanbul Convention’) and was ratified by the European Union on 28 June 2023, Added: deleted

7. Amendment 7Rejected

   Citation 47

   Tabled by Cristian Terheş · ECR

   Removed: – having regard to its resolution of 10 March 2022 on the rule of law and the consequences of the ECJ ruling20, 20 OJ C 347, 9.9.2022, p. 168. Added: deleted

8. Amendment 8Rejected

   Citation 48

   Tabled by Cristian Terheş · ECR

   Removed: – having regard to its resolution of 9 June 2022 on the rule of law and the potential approval of the Polish national recovery plan (RRF)21, 21 OJ C 493, 27.12.2022, p. 108. Added: deleted

9. Amendment 9Rejected

   Citation 50

   Tabled by Cristian Terheş · ECR

   Removed: – having regard to its resolution of 15 September 2022 on the proposal for a Council decision determining, pursuant to Article 7(1) of the Treaty on European Union, the existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded23, 23 OJ C 125, 5.4.2023, p. 463. Added: deleted

10. Amendment 10Rejected

    Citation 53

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Bert-Jan Ruissen · ECR

    Removed: – having regard to its resolution of 7 July 2022 on the US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and women’s health in the EU26, 26 OJ C 47, 7.2.2023, p. 268. Added: deleted

11. Amendment 11Rejected

    Recital A a (new)

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş · ECR

    Added: Aa. whereas the Commission has blatantly violated the transparency principle by negotiating contracts with pharmaceutical companies for the manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines which, to this day, have not been fully published;

12. Amendment 12Rejected

    Recital P

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Bert-Jan Ruissen · ECR

    P. whereas Removed: there has been an organised backlash against women’s and girls’ rights in recent years; whereas, in some Member States, there have been attempts to further roll back on sexual and reproductive health and rights, such as on existing legal protections for women’s access to abortion care; whereas, in recent years, the denial of access to safe and legal abortion in some Member States has led to the death of a number of women; whereas the prevalence of gender-based violence, including sexual violence and rape, remains high across the EU; whereas some Member States have still not ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (the Istanbul Convention); whereas movements against promoting and providing sexuality education are growing in the EU; Added: forced abortion and gender-based violence around the world should be condemned in the strongest terms;

13. Amendment 13Rejected

    Recital U

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Bert-Jan Ruissen · ECR

    Removed: U. whereas the continuous trend of increasing discrimination, hate speech and violence against LGBTIQ+ people and LGBTIQ+ rights defenders persists across the EU; whereas LGBTIQ+ people still face discrimination and exclusion in several Member States regarding social protection, social security, access to healthcare, education, legal protection and access to and supply of goods and other services that are available to the public, including housing; whereas the case-law of the Court of Justice that protects the social rights and private life of same-sex couples and children born to same-sex parents is not being implemented, such as the ‘Coman case (C-673/16)’ and the ‘Baby Sara case (C-490/20)’; whereas surgeries and medical treatments are being performed on intersex children without their prior, personal, full and informed consent; whereas intersex genital mutilation can have lifelong consequences, such as psychological trauma and physical impairments; Added: deleted

14. Amendment 14Rejected

    Recital AA a (new)

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş · ECR

    Added: AAa. whereas the European Public Prosecutor’s Office announced on 14 October 2022 that there was an ongoing investigation into the acquisition of COVID-19 vaccines in the EU; whereas this announcement came after extremely high public interest in the matter;

15. Amendment 15Rejected

    Recital AA b (new)

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş · ECR

    Added: AAb. whereas transparency is one of the key founding elements of the European Union and, despite this fact, the Commission has not disclosed any of the names of the authors of the rule of law reports, which raises doubts about the objectivity, accuracy and professionalism of these reports;

16. Amendment 16Rejected

    Paragraph 10

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş · ECR

    Removed: 10. Supports the use of the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the horizontal enabling conditions for the freezing of EU funding to fight corruption and rule of law backsliding in Member States; stresses that funds restricted through different conditionality measures must only be released once key enabling conditions are met; urges the Member States to complete the appropriate measures to reach the milestones set out in their respective recovery and resilience plans; calls on the European Council to take action and to determine whether Hungary has committed serious and persistent breaches of EU values under Article 7(2) TEU; strongly deplores the systematic scapegoating of the LGBTQI+ community by the Hungarian authorities; underlines that the Council shares the responsibility for the protection of the values enshrined in Article 2 TEU and that the failure to do so would have long-lasting and potentially damaging consequences; insists that Parliament’s role and competences be respected; Added: deleted

17. Amendment 17Rejected

    Paragraph 34

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Bert-Jan Ruissen · ECR

    Removed: 34. Recalls that gender-based violence is highly prevalent in all Member States across the EU; strongly condemns the rapid backsliding on women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights in several Member States; strongly condemns the denial of access to safe and legal abortion services as it is a form of gender-based violence; highlights that the ECtHR has ruled that restrictive abortion laws and lack of implementation violate women’s right to bodily autonomy and integrity; reiterates its condemnation of Poland’s law that imposes a near total ban on abortion; recalls that citizens who help people to access abortion services when it is not freely or legally available should not be persecuted; reiterates its call for the right to abortion to be included in the Charter; Added: deleted

18. Amendment 18Rejected

    Paragraph 35

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Bert-Jan Ruissen · ECR

    Removed: 35. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal for a directive to combat violence against women and domestic violence and calls for the swift conclusion of the negotiations and for gender-based violence to be included in the list of EU crimes; highlights that such a directive should guarantee the obligations laid down in the Istanbul Convention as a minimum standard and aim to strengthen these standards to increase the level of protection; welcomes the EU’s ratification of the Istanbul Convention which entered into force on 1 October 2023; calls on the remaining Member States to swiftly ratify the Convention in order to protect women against violence; Added: deleted

19. Amendment 19Rejected

    Paragraph 37

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Bert-Jan Ruissen · ECR

    … enjoy the same rights, free of discrimination, such as the right to Removed: the recognition of parenthood, including for same-sex couples; welcomes the Commission’s proposal for a regulation on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition of decisions and acceptance of authentic instruments in matters of parenthood and on the creation of a European Certificate of Parenthood to protect the rights of all children by ensuring that their parental ties, including, in particular, same-sex parents, established in one Member State are recognised in all EU Member States; Added: education, health care, social care, safe and good quality housing and support from their parents;

20. Amendment 20Rejected

    Paragraph 37 a (new)

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Bert-Jan Ruissen · ECR

    Added: 37a. Reiterates that in all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private institutions, the best interests of the child must be a primary consideration; highlights the fact that the family is the fundamental group and the natural environment for children, and that families should be afforded the necessary protection and assistance, while recognising that children should grow up in a family environment in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding for their full and harmonious development; calls for the EU institutions and the Member States to enhance and protect the well-being of children and their families;

21. Amendment 21Rejected

    Paragraph 43

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş · ECR

    Removed: 43. Welcomes the fact that the Commission, for the first time, invoked an isolated violation of Article 2 TEU when it referred the Hungarian ‘child protection law’, which camouflaged other objectives, to the Court of Justice; Added: deleted

22. Amendment 22Rejected

    Paragraph 7 a (new)

    Tabled by Tom Vandendriessche, Annalisa Tardino, Susanna Ceccardi +4 · ID

    Added: 7a. Calls for the immediate creation of a parliamentary committee of inquiry into Qatargate; recalls that parliamentary committees of inquiry have been set up in the past at the same time as judicial inquiries, notably for the Pegasus and Panama Papers affairs;

23. Amendment 26Rejected

    Paragraph 25

    Tabled by Tom Vandendriessche, Annalisa Tardino, Susanna Ceccardi +4 · ID

    … use national security as a determinant for internal policies, such as migration; Removed: stresses that any measures taken on the basis of national security must be necessary and proportionate, and must not undermine the rights guaranteed by the Charter; recalls that Article 19 of the Charter provides for protection in the event of removal, expulsion or extradition by prohibiting collective expulsions and, therefore, requires individual assessments and prohibits the rejection of applications for international protection based solely on a specific nationality; Added: recalls that every Member State has the right to protect its borders against illegal migration;

24. Amendment 27Rejected

    Paragraph 31 a (new)

    Tabled by Tom Vandendriessche, Susanna Ceccardi, Harald Vilimsky +3 · ID

    Added: 31a. Notes with concern and condemns the rise of antisemitism in the EU;