Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-04-20-Speech-2-482"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-04-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Stamping of travel documents2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040420.21.2-482"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-04-20-Speech-2-4832
lpv:speaker	lp:Roberta Angelilli2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; UEN (1999-07-22--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Alleanza nazionale (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, I should like first of all to thank my fellow Members for their amendments, which have enriched this proposal for a Council regulation laying down the requirement for the competent authorities of the Member States to stamp systematically the travel documents of third-country nationals when they cross the external borders of the Member States. This provision amends the convention implementing the Schengen agreement and the so-called common manual to this end. It would apparently seem to be a merely bureaucratic provision; in reality, in view of the forthcoming, imminent enlargement and thus the enormous extension of the European Union’s external borders, it aims at ensuring that movement across these borders is managed more rationally, especially so as to safeguard legal immigration and to discourage and effectively combat illegal immigration and the criminal activities associated with it. In view of the complete abolition of controls at the internal borders between Member States, the objective is to transfer these controls to their external borders, while increasing judicial, customs and police cooperation with what might be termed compensatory measures to safeguard the security of European Union territory. It is important to make an effort to rationalise and harmonise border control systems: indeed, the gradual creation of the Schengen area has resulted in various procedures in each Member State for controlling its own borders. This has adversely affected efforts to check that third-country citizens in the territory of the Member States comply with the conditions for staying, especially for short stays. For this reason the Commission has produced this proposal for a Council regulation with the aim of making it obligatory to systematically stamp the travel documents of such citizens during immigration controls at the external borders, and establishing common rules for this. This is obviously just one of many operational instruments, but systematically stamping travel documents may contribute effectively to the fight against illegal immigration. Finally, I should like to point out that this regulation is certainly just a first step towards a more comprehensive reform of the system, which will also include systematically stamping documents – a proper form of control, then – for those leaving the Schengen area."@en1

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