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"Madam President, one of the fundamental rights that the European Union must guarantee for its citizens and residents is real freedom of movement under safe conditions throughout the 27 Member States.
At the moment this is not guaranteed for those people – most, but not all of whom are women – who have obtained protection orders in their own countries, often with great difficulty, after being persecuted, stalked or repeatedly threatened even with being killed by someone they know, often a spouse, as Ms Reding mentioned, or an ex-husband or a boyfriend, or in any case someone they know. Such people are in fact no longer protected when they travel to another Member State.
Parliament and the Council, in conjunction with the Commission, are seeking to fill this legislative gap by means of this directive. I would like to point out that we have applied the codecision procedure for the first time, at the initiative of the Spanish Presidency together with another 12 Member States, including Italy, and with strong support from the Polish Presidency, whom I would like to thank.
This is the first legal instrument offering effective prevention and protection for actual or potential victims of crimes against the person or crimes of a moral nature across the European Union. It may be executed by either the civil or the criminal authorities of a country with measures that are the same as or equivalent to those taken in the issuing country.
As the shadow rapporteur in the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality for the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, I would like to highlight the excellent cooperation that arose with the two rapporteurs and the invaluable contribution made by Ezio Perillo of Parliament’s Directorate for Legislative Affairs, who is today at the Court in Luxembourg.
I also want to say how pleased I am with the key points of our proposal: the expansion of protection to cover physical and psychological integrity, dignity, personal liberty and sexual integrity; the right to information; the guarantees that the perpetrator of threats will also be informed of the consequences of breaching the European Protection Order; and the obligation for Member States to draw up comparable statistics.
Of course, I also expect Parliament to adopt a position on the Victims package that Ms Reding has announced, so as to make this focus on victim protection truly horizontal."@en1
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