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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Rights of access to children2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001117.4.5-043"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-17-Speech-5-0442
lpv:speaker	lp:Anna Karamanou2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with South-east Europe (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (2000-03-08--2002-01-16)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2000-10-05--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I would first of all like to congratulate both the French Republic on its initiative to adopt a regulation to guarantee the right of personal contact between parents and their children and our rapporteur, Mrs Banotti, whose expertise added considerable value to the French proposal. A Europe without borders has most certainly contributed to an increase in the number of marriages between couples with different nationalities from both the E.U. and third countries. But when such marriages break down, there are often problems of ensuring personal contact between children and one of the parents, especially when the children reside in another Member State. And, as previous speakers have already pointed out, there has also been an increase in the number of cases of abduction with the child not being returned by one of the parents. That is why this regulation, which seeks to simplify the enforcement of rights of the parents with the aim of ensuring that children are able to maintain regular contact with both parents, is of major significance. The regulation which has been put forward is by no means perfect as it is linked to the Brussels II Regulation, which does not cover children whose parents are living apart and children of unmarried parents. Mr Coelho gave some very pertinent statistics and, personally, I think it is an unacceptable anachronism that, in the Europe of the twenty-first century, we legislate simply with regard to conventionally legitimate children and institutionalised human relations and that we significantly limit the scope of a regulation which is good in all other respects. I believe that there is a need for an immediate review of all regulations based on standards which have been overtaken by life and by contemporary reality. It is also necessary to take the forthcoming enlargement of the European Union more seriously into account when hammering out regulations and to give more serious consideration to the repeatedly expressed views and positions of the European Parliament."@en1

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