MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

6 November 2003

pursuant to Rule 48 of the Rules of Procedure
by Roberto Felice Bigliardo, Cristiana Muscardini, Nello Musumeci, Antonio Mussa, Mauro Nobilia and Franz Turchi
on the proposal to set up a 'Border Management Agency'

B5‑0470/2003

European Parliament resolution on the proposal to set up a 'Border Management Agency'

The European Parliament,

–  having regard to Rule 48 of the Rules of Procedure,

A.  expressing great concern at the human tragedies occurring in the Mediterranean every day as a result of boats crammed with poor people fleeing hunger, misery and persecution being shipwrecked,

B.  whereas these tragedies are the consequence of a new form of slavery devised by truly unscrupulous criminal organisations,

C.  convinced that governments complicit in this wretched trade use it to exert various forms of pressure on European governments,

D.  expressing appreciation of the Council's decision to create a European border management agency,

1.  Considers that a European multinational department should be set up to offer national police forces assistance and support in combating illegal immigration;

2.  Takes the view that the Council and the Commission should study the possibility of devising a satellite system to intercept the influx of illegal immigrants by sea;

3.  Considers that the Council should consider the possibility of suspending economic relations with countries which refuse to cooperate in signing agreements to control their borders and combat human trafficking;

4.  Calls on the Commission to propose to the Council the introduction of a European system for exchanging information on asylum, immigration and the countries of origin of migrants.