Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU

Tabled by Javier Zarzalejos, Esteban González Pons, Dolors Montserrat, Carmen Crespo Díaz, Fernando Navarrete Rojas, Francisco José Millán Mon, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Gabriel Mato, Raúl de la Hoz Quintano, Esther Herranz García, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Susana Solís Pérez, Pablo Arias Echeverría, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Borja Giménez Larraz, Elena Nevado del Campo, Nicolás Pascual de la Parte, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Stefan Köhler, Loránt Vincze, Alexandra Mehnert, Branko Grims, Miriam Lexmann, Jeroen Lenaers, Milan Zver, Lena Düpont, Liesbet Sommen, Christine Schneider, Angelika Niebler, Tomáš Zdechovský, Ana Miguel Pedro, Hildegard Bentele, Sabine Verheyen, Oliver Schenk, Verena Mertens, Marion Walsmann, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, Rasa Juknevičienė, Christian Doleschal, Niclas Herbst, Magdalena Adamowicz, Caterina Chinnici, Stefan Berger, David Casa, Andrea Wechsler, Seán Kelly, Ingeborg Ter Laak, Reinhold Lopatka, David McAllister, Willemien Koning, Sandra Kalniete, Marie-Sophie Lanig, Andreas Schwab, Christian Ehler, Daniel Buda, Paulius Saudargas, Michał Wawrykiewicz, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Hélder Sousa Silva, Dirk Gotink, Herbert Dorfmann, Mika Aaltola, Monika Hohlmeier, Janusz Lewandowski, Michalis Hadjipantela, Karlo Ressler, Lukas Mandl, Loucas Fourlas, Alexander Bernhuber, Sophia Kircher, Angelika Winzig, Ondřej Kolář

Added: 7b. Calls on the Commission to assess, as a matter of priority, the inclusion of the offence of sexual abuse, defined, in line with international human rights standards and the Istanbul Convention, on the basis of lack of consent, among the list of offences set out in Article 2(2) of the Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States (2002/584/JHA), for which the verification of double criminality is abolished; stresses that this inclusion would strengthen the principle of mutual recognition, facilitate the immediate surrender of suspects and convicted persons across the Member States, and contribute to addressing the current fragmentation of national definitions of sexual abuse, thereby reinforcing legal certainty and equal access to justice for victims throughout the EU;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE783.220v01-00