Amendment No. 9 | Doc. 13531 | 23 June 2014

The large-scale arrival of mixed migratory flows on Italian shores

Signatories: Ms Luise AMTSBERG, Germany, SOC ; Mr Boriss CILEVIČS, Latvia, SOC ; Mr Andrej HUNKO, Germany, UEL ; Mr Tiny KOX, Netherlands, UEL ; Ms Tineke STRIK, Netherlands, SOC

Origin - 2014 - Third part-session

In the draft recommendation, replace paragraph 4.4 with the following paragraph:

"require, as its top priority for the comming year, that each member state of the Council of Europe, in accordance with the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Hirsi Jamaa and Others v. Italy (23 February 2011, Application No. 27765/09), review their border control and return operations in order to ensure the full respect of the principle of non-refoulement with regard to every individual intercepted outside their territory and rule out the possibility of collective expulsions, as prohibited under Article 4 of Protocol IV to the ECHR, in line with the Court's judgment."