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"Mr President, I want first of all to thank the chairman of the committee, who is also the rapporteur for this matter, for the work he has done. The anti-terrorist legislation to which we have had to devote ourselves following 11 September is designed to strike a balance in which we, on the one hand, respond to terrorist crimes but, on the other hand, also promote and defend legal certainty in the process. The legal certainty of the individual must be guaranteed in connection with the fight against terrorism. When three Swedish citizens were listed among those whose funds and economic resources were to be frozen following 11 September, it was very clear what difficulties arise when people, first of all, are put onto such a list; secondly, they do not know what action to take in order to appeal against a decision; and, thirdly, they do not know how they are to keep body and soul together when they have no access to what is needed to meet the exigencies of daily life.
I am therefore pleased that the European Parliament can now contribute to a procedure more in keeping with legal certainty: a humanitarian exemption from the freezing of funds and economic resources, of which the rapporteur has given an account. That is something for which the Member States, including Sweden, and the European Parliament have been working over a long period.
Putting people onto terrorism lists in order to prevent terrorist crimes is an administrative procedure. It is a question of implementing international law under the UN Charter. As always in the case of action taken by the authorities, legal certainty at both national and international levels is important to the individual. Moreover, improvements to the UN resolutions are now slowly taking place. One example is that the UN Sanctions Committee must, from this year, justify its decisions, something that is absolutely crucial.
In the future too, the European Parliament must, at every opportunity, require that the fundamental human rights accorded by our international community be respected, even in difficult situations such as that following 11 September. Legal uncertainty still exists and, in this area, the committee’s new amendments can play a major role. We propose that the EU introduce provisions concerning processes for deleting persons from lists of those whose funds and economic resources are to be frozen. That is something we propose on the grounds that the process must become still more legally certain.
The amendments that the committee is proposing and on which we have to adopt a position tomorrow are constructive, because they require a procedure for de-listing. These amendments must then be carefully considered by the international community, the Commission and the Council."@en1
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