Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-04-20-Speech-2-483"

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dcterms:Date	"2004-04-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Stamping of travel documents2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040420.21.2-483"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-04-20-Speech-2-4842
lpv:speaker	lp:Marcelino Oreja Arburúa2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-09-23--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (2002-07-23--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-09-19--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Popular (2002-07-23--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2002-11-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Temporary committee on improving safety at sea (2003-11-20--2004-04-21)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would naturally like to begin by congratulating the Commission on its proposal and the rapporteur for the work she has done, both from a technical point of view and in terms of cooperation with other Members, since it has allowed us to incorporate some of our proposals into her report. There is no question that the enlargement of the European Union’s territory represents a step forward in the management of external borders. The European Union is an ambitious and open integration project which has already gone beyond mere economic objectives as its objectives have broadened and, as the Member States have transferred more and more of their competences to it, the challenges it faces have also increased. Since 1995, when the Schengen Agreement was adopted, there has been an increasing desire to remove the borders and barriers between the States party to it. The free movement of people, immigration and asylum, and the management of external borders are policies of the highest priority, and this has undoubtedly been reflected in the conclusions of certain Councils, such as Seville, Tampere or Thessaloniki. One of the objectives of Community policy is the control of immigration in order to promote, on the one hand, the integration of immigrants and also, on the other, the safe return to countries of origin in the case of illegal immigration. In this regard, the control of the external borders of the States party to the Schengen Agreement is essential to achieving these objectives. If under this regulation we manage to unify an automatic stamping system for travel documents of third-country nationals we will make the procedures relating to the management of external borders more coherent and simple. One of the European Union’s successes has undoubtedly been to remove barriers so that citizens can move freely throughout all of its countries without facing different treatment. If we want to improve security and make the European Union a more secure region, we must also improve the functioning of our external borders and, in particular, the Schengen borders. With regard to the report by Mr Angelilli, our group will vote in favour of the proposal but, nevertheless, we have called for a separate vote on Amendment No 13 because we believe the Commission's proposal is better than that of the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs. Therefore, on that point alone we will have a separate vote and we will vote against. I believe this Regulation to be a step forward in terms of controlling illegal immigration and that in this way we will be able to move forward towards a common immigration policy."@en1

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