Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-12-Speech-3-289"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Restrictive measures directed against terrorism2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030312.9.3-289"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-12-Speech-3-2902
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole Krarup2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2003-02-24--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Folkebevægelsen mod EU (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-09-09--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"There is no doubt that the proposal contained in the report represents a type of progress. On the basis, however, of the current arrangements, it has to be said that the rules surrounding the regulation on the freezing of funds and economic resources, involving the entry of names on terrorism lists, is without any form of legal certainty. The fact is that this is legislation that defines specific persons and organisations in advance as terrorists, and the content of the report is a type of humanisation of these rules. The situation, roughly speaking, is that the EU’s rules have come about on the basis of the UN’s resolutions, but the UN Sanctions Committee acts, in general, on the dictates of the United States, where the principle applies that that it is better to risk having ten innocent victims than to see one guilty person go free. That is in actual fact the principle that generally applies. What is happening now is an improvement in the legal position in certain respects, but there is a fundamental lack of elementary legal certainty in as much as someone suspected of terrorism should also be entitled to a defence and to be informed of the basis of the accusation. That is what the amendment by the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left is, in the first place, designed to remedy and improve. It is a question of our moving from a position of absolutely no legal certainty towards something resembling legal certainty, and our proposal is aimed at extending such legal certainty by, firstly, entitling people to contest accusations and to be given access to a basic defence and by, principally, resisting a situation in which specific designated groups are branded as terrorists, without having recourse to the due processes of law."@en1

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