Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-20-Speech-4-047"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-09-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Refugee status in Member States (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010920.6.4-047"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-09-20-Speech-4-0482
lpv:speaker	lp:Jorge Salvador Hernández Mollar2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2002-09-02)3 substitute; PECH (1999-09-01--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, this is the first in a series of directives that have to complete the first part of the timetable which aims to introduce, in the longer term, a common asylum procedure and a uniform status for people who are granted asylum. That is the spirit, and also the letter, of the Tampere agreements and the Treaty of Amsterdam, although we should discuss the legal basis of the common asylum procedure and uniform status. I would very briefly like to mention to the Commission certain reservations of a technical nature that arise as a result of the proposed directive we are analysing. The first relates to the extension of the minimum rules for asylum procedures. I believe that the proposal puts excessive stress on regulation and that a common asylum procedure is never intended to be a single procedure or the same procedure for all States. I am afraid that the Commission may have gone beyond what was agreed at Tampere. The second reservation relates to the Commission’s interest in regulating time limits, because I am wondering: is a long procedure a factor in the rejection of asylum seekers? That does not mean that we are in favour of a long procedure. However, from a practical point of view, European countries with long waiting times – more than two or three years – have greater numbers of asylum seekers, and countries such as Spain, with much shorter waiting times, have far fewer. Harmonisation of these waiting times is acceptable if it is due to a concern for the legal correctness of the procedure, but I fear that it may be inefficient and instil fear for both material and political reasons. The third and final reservation is of a conceptual nature. I believe that the difficulties in homogenising decisions stem more from the definition of a refugee than from the procedure for identifying one as such. Concepts such as ‘safe third country’, ‘third party persecution’, ‘persecution in the event of conflict’ or ‘state or non-state persecution’ are examples of some of these problems. Perhaps, as I said before, we should deal with the definition before the procedure."@en1

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