Translation of "Comité international de planning familial " (French → English) :

21. Stresses the need for the EU, along with the Ukrainian authorities, to devote further attention to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and in Crimea and to address the catastrophic humanitarian situation, in particular the situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs); calls on the Commission and on the Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management to prepare a robust, direct and long overdue humanitarian action, omitting intermediary organisations, in the form of ‘Blue Convoy’ type humanitarian action clearly marked as coming from the EU; calls on the Commission to present such a ...[+++]plan of action to the Parliament within the next two months; stresses the need for further financial assistance for Ukraine from the EU and its Member States to help it cope with the dire humanitarian crisis; echoes the alerts issued by the WHO to the effect that eastern Ukraine is facing a health emergency, with hospitals not fully functioning and a shortage of medicines and vaccines, and calls for increased and more effective humanitarian assistance to IDPs, with regard in particular to children and the elderly, and for full and unhindered access for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the conflict areas; welcomes the enactment of the long-awaited IDP law, as well as the decision to deploy EU experts through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism to advise the Ukrainian authorities on IDP issues;

Activities shall be included in the work plan of the EDCTP2 Programme adopted annually by the EDCTP2-IS following the positive outcome of their external evaluation by international peer review to the objectives of the EDCTP2 Programme.

Activities shall be included in the work plan of the EDCTP2 Programme adopted annually by the EDCTP2-IS following the positive outcome of their external evaluation by international peer review based on Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) No .

7. Endorses the Commission’s intention to bring forward a proposal on ‘non-financial disclosure’ by businesses which will enable the EU to encourage European businesses to apply the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the UN Global Compact; welcomes the fact that this proposal is based on a wide-ranging public consultation as well as on a series of workshops with relevant stakeholders; stresses that use of the term ‘non-financial’ should not disguise the real financial consequences for businesses in terms of social, environmental and human rights impacts; points out that the impact of business action and social involvement can also be measured in financial terms; calls for a proposal which places the EU at the heart of the man ...[+++]y current international initiatives on corporate sustainability reporting and which is fully in line with the objective of making integrated reporting, as currently developed by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), the global norm by the end of the decade; stresses, however, that any solution chosen must not create excessive administrative burdens, particularly for SMEs; believes that the philanthropic activities of businesses should not generate red tape and costs that could jeopardise their voluntary commitments; welcomes the goal of exposing human rights violations and criminal schemes, and urges states to punish such activity with utmost rigour;

Audit committees help to ensure high quality financial reporting and statutory audit as well as well functioning, effective internal control including internal audit practices.

Internally, the basic elements put in place by the Union for the integration of people enjoying protection in the Member States begin with a Community legislative framework consolidating the status and residence rights of persons given protection, plus elements of long-term residence and family reunification.