REPORT on the annual report on the activities of the European Ombudsman in 2024

Tabled by Nikos Pappas, Valentina Palmisano

19. Removed: Regrets Added: Criticises the Commission’s refusal to follow the Ombudsman’s recommendation to grant greater public … documents related to the drafting of proposed legislation to combat child sexual Removed: abuse; recalls that citizens should be able to scrutinise the Commission’s work on legislative proposals; underlines that transparency is of particular importance in this context, as the proposal directly touches on Added: abuse, as it has thus failed to ensure that citizens can verify that it has acted independently and exclusively in the public interest; underlines that the protection of Removed: children, citizens’ fundamental rights and private life; Added: children from sexual abuse must be the EU’s foremost priority; stresses that this fight must go hand in hand with the protection of fundamental rights, including the right to privacy and data protection; calls on the Commission to ensure full transparency in the preparation of the legislative proposal and to actively involve civil society organisations, experts and non-governmental organisations in the field of child protection in the process; further calls on the Ombudsman to closely monitor the action taken on this legislative file to ensure that EU measures are both effective in protecting children and fully compliant with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE782.972v01-00