!. The protection within the territory of the Union of citizens' rights, human rights and fundamental rights, including the protection of minorities, as laid down in the Treaties and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
2. The measures needed to combat all forms of discrimination other than those based on sex or those occurring at the workplace and in the labour market;
3. legislation in the areas of transparency and of the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data;
4. the establishment and development of an area of freedom, security and justice, in particular:
- measures concerning the entry and movement of persons, asylum and migration as well as judicial and administrative cooperation in civil matters,
- measures concerning an integrated management of the common borders,
- measures relating to police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters;
5. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction and the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, Europol, Eurojust, Cepol and other bodies and agencies in the same area;
6. The determination of a clear risk of a serious breach by a Member State of the principles common to the Member States.
ACTIVITY REPORT, SEPTEMBER 2009 - MARCH 2010
- Rapporteur on the Council framework decision on prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings (video )
- Shadow rapporteur on the draft Council framework decision on the transfer of proceedings in criminal matters
- Shadow rapporteur on the proposal for a Council framework decision on the right to interpretation and to translation in criminal proceedings
- Shadow rapporteur on Council framework decision on accreditation of forensic laboratory activities
- Shadow rapporteur on the situation of Roma in the EU (ongoing)
- Shadow rapporteur Protection of fundamental rights in the EU (ongoing)
- Shadow rapporteur Accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ongoing)
ACTIVITY REPORT, 2007-2009 TERM
As full member of the Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), I have worked as:
- Full raporteur on the Framework Decision regarding "Prevention and settlement of conflicts of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings"
- Full raporteur for the Council decision on EUROJUST
- ALDE Group's rapporteur (Shadow Rapporteur) for the Council decision on the European Judicial Network (EJN)
- Opinion on the EU Directive facilitating cross-border enforcement in the field of road safety
- ALDE Group's rapporteur (Shadow Rapporteur) for the Council decision on "Bill of rights for the internet"
- ALDE Group's rapporteur (Shadow Rapporteur) for the Council decision on "in absentia" verdicts
- ALDE Group's rapporteur (Shadow Rapporteur) on "Fighting sexual exploitation and child pornography"
- ALDE Group's rapporteur (Shadow Rapporteur) on the Council Directive proposal regarding the exchange of information extracted from the criminal records
- ALDE Group's rapporteur (Shadow Rapporteur) on the Commission decision proposal protecting children using the Internet and other communication technologies
- ALDE Group's rapporteur (Shadow Rapporteur) for Communication on evaluation and development of FRONTEX
- ALDE Group's rapporteur (Shadow Rapporteur) for Communication on the creation of a European Border Surveillance System (EUROSUR)
- ALDE Group's rapporteur (Shadow Rapporteur) on the Report regarding "Cross-border implications of the legal protection of adults"
- ALDE Group's rapporteur (Shadow Rapporteur) for the Report on the protection of consumers, in particular minors, in respect of the use of video games