Translation of "Signal d'entrée à un seul bit " (French → English) :

33. Considers that the Dublin Regulation, which governs the allocation of responsibility for asylum applications, places a disproportionate burden on Member States constituting entry points into the EU, and does not foresee for a fair distribution of asylum responsibility among Member States; notes that the Dublin system as it has been applied so far, in a context characterised by very different asylum systems and insufficient levels of asylum acquis implementation, has led to the unequal treatment of asylum seekers while also having an adverse impact on family reunification and integration; stresses, moreover, its shortcomings in term ...[+++]s of efficiency and cost-effectiveness, since more than half of agreed transfers never take place and there are still significant numbers of multiple applications; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that asylum-seekers who are returned to a Member State on the basis of the Dublin II Regulation are not discriminated against for the sole reason of being Dublin II transferees;

As I was saying, we were left perplexed by certain points: the clause granting Member States alone the power to determine the volumes of admission to their territory of third-country nationals, thus precluding the possibility of establishing a genuine European policy for the management of legal admissions to the Union; the appropriateness of incorporating the ‘emergency brake’ clause for judicial cooperation in criminal matters; the appropriateness of some Member States enjoying special arrangements for derogation from the Constitution; the European Parliament's limited role in the area of judicial cooperation in civil matters as rega ...[+++]rds family law; and the fact that the provisions relating to the freezing of funds, financial assets and economic gains needed to achieve the objectives of the area of freedom, security and justice are limited, contrary to what was proposed in the Convention text, to the area of the prevention and combating of terrorism, and thus exclude the prevention and combating of organised crime and of trafficking in human beings.

One further point that is very important to underline is that the crisis only arose because the meeting was held in Europe, from where two members of the Zimbabwe delegation were banned from travelling.

Steps should therefore be taken to facilitate the free movement of holders of national long-stay visas pending the issue of their residence permits, by stipulating that such visas, which currently enable their holders to transit only once through the territories of the other Member States in order to reach the territory of the State which issued the visa, have the same validity as residence permits in terms of freedom of movement , provided that the applicants fulfil the conditions of entry referred to in Article 5(1)(a), (c) and (e) of the Convention imp ...[+++]lementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 signed at Schengen on 19 June 1990 and do not appear on the national lists of alerts of the Member States concerned .

It is interesting to note that at the hearings held in the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, the sole telephone company proposing de novo entry into international telecommunications, GeoReach Telecommunications Inc., advocated absolutely no need for a licensing regime.

I want to state at the beginning of my remarks that when I talk about problems of gender equality, sexual harassment, and discrimination on the basis of gender, by no means do I consider the Department of National Defence to be the only offender or the worst offender.