Annex 1 - Improving emergency cooperation in recovering endangered missing children and improving child alert mechanisms in the EU Member States (written declaration)

Written declaration 0007/2016, submitted under Rule 136, by Tomáš Zdechovský, Eleonora Evi, Jana Žitňanská, Kinga Gál, Helga Stevens, Lefteris Christoforou, Roberta Metsola, Patricija Šulin, Dubravka Šuica, Theodoros Zagorakis, Catherine Stihler, Miriam Dalli, Renate Weber, Philippe De Backer, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Jeroen Lenaers, Indrek Tarand, Sophia in 't Veld and Caterina Chinnici on improving emergency cooperation in recovering endangered missing children and improving child alert mechanisms in the EU Member States1 (minutes of 9.5.2016, item 9) and signed by 465 Members.

Text of the written declaration:

1.   250 000 children are reported missing in the EU each year. When a child is abducted and killed, in 76 % of cases the child was murdered within three hours of the abduction. The search for an endangered missing child often stagnates at internal borders. 37.5 % of Europeans live in border areas.

2.   When the public are asked to search for a missing child that is in imminent and serious danger, it is crucial that this is done as soon as possible.

3.   The Council and the Commission are therefore called upon to subscribe to the 5-point plan proposed by AMBER Alert Europe (the European Child Rescue Alert and Police Network on Missing Children).

4.   The Commission is hence called upon to make every effort to encourage the practice whereby, when a child is at risk in a border area, or law enforcement agencies suspect that the child has crossed an internal border, law enforcement agencies, border authorities and the public in the other country are informed immediately.

5.   This declaration, together with the names of the signatories, is forwarded to the Council and the Commission.

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1 Pursuant to Rule 136(4) and (5), of Parliament's Rules of Procedure, where a declaration is signed by a majority of Parliament's component Members, it shall be published in the minutes with the names of its signatories and forwarded to the addressees, though it shall not be binding on Parliament.

List of signatories:

Isabella Adinolfi, Marco Affronte, Laura Agea, Clara Eugenia Aguilera García, Daniela Aiuto, Nedzhmi Ali, Martina Anderson, Eric Andrieu, Nikos Androulakis, Gerolf Annemans, Maria Arena, Pascal Arimont, Marie-Christine Arnautu, Francisco Assis, Margrete Auken, Petras Auštrevičius, Inés Ayala Sender, Georges Bach, Zigmantas Balčytis, Amjad Bashir, Catherine Bearder, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Heinz K. Becker, Tiziana Beghin, Ivo Belet, Bendt Bendtsen, Brando Benifei, Joëlle Bergeron, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Dominique Bilde, Mara Bizzotto, Malin Björk, José Blanco López, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Andrea Bocskor, Franc Bogovič, Michał Boni, David Borrelli, Biljana Borzan, Victor Boştinaru, Paul Brannen, Mercedes Bresso, Renata Briano, Elmar Brok, Klaus Buchner, Daniel Buda, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Soledad Cabezón Ruiz, Alain Cadec, Wim van de Camp, Nicola Caputo, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Dita Charanzová, Aymeric Chauprade, Nessa Childers, Caterina Chinnici, Ole Christensen, Lefteris Christoforou, Kostas Chrysogonos, Salvatore Cicu, Deirdre Clune, Carlos Coelho, Sergio Gaetano Cofferati, Birgit Collin-Langen, Lara Comi, Therese Comodini Cachia, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Ignazio Corrao, Silvia Costa, Javier Couso Permuy, Andrea Cozzolino, Michael Cramer, Andi Cristea, Pál Csáky, Ryszard Czarnecki, Edward Czesak, Peter van Dalen, Miriam Dalli, Rosa D'Amato, Seb Dance, Viorica Dăncilă, Nicola Danti, Michel Dantin, Philippe De Backer, Paolo De Castro, Angélique Delahaye, Andor Deli, Mady Delvaux, Fabio De Masi, Mark Demesmaeker, Isabella De Monte, Gérard Deprez, Marielle de Sarnez, Tamás Deutsch, Nirj Deva, Mircea Diaconu, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Martina Dlabajová, Anneliese Dodds, Mireille D'Ornano, Damian Drăghici, Ian Duncan, Pascal Durand, Angel Dzhambazki, Frank Engel, Linnéa Engström, Georgios Epitideios, Norbert Erdős, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Jill Evans, Eleonora Evi, Tanja Fajon, José Inácio Faria, José Manuel Fernandes, Jonás Fernández, Laura Ferrara, Santiago Fisas Ayxelà, Raffaele Fitto, Luke Ming Flanagan, Monika Flašíková Beňová, Knut Fleckenstein, Lorenzo Fontana, Vicky Ford, Eleonora Forenza, Jacqueline Foster, Lampros Fountoulis, Ashley Fox, Eugen Freund, Mariya Gabriel, Kinga Gál, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Francesc Gambús, Iratxe García Pérez, Elisabetta Gardini, Enrico Gasbarra, Elena Gentile, Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Arne Gericke, Sven Giegold, Adam Gierek, Jens Gieseke, María Teresa Giménez Barbat, Michela Giuffrida, Charles Goerens, Bruno Gollnisch, Ana Gomes, Esteban González Pons, Beata Gosiewska, Sylvie Goulard, Luis de Grandes Pascual, Maria Grapini, Karoline Graswander-Hainz, Nathalie Griesbeck, Theresa Griffin, Iveta Grigule, Matthias Groote, Jytte Guteland, András Gyürk, Takis Hadjigeorgiou, Marian Harkin, Rebecca Harms, Martin Häusling, Brian Hayes, Anna Hedh, Hans-Olaf Henkel, Esther Herranz García, Krzysztof Hetman, Maria Heubuch, György Hölvényi, Mike Hookem, Richard Howitt, Danuta Maria Hübner, Ian Hudghton, Filiz Hyusmenova, Sophia in 't Veld, Carlos Iturgaiz, Cătălin Sorin Ivan, Liisa Jaakonsaari, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Peter Jahr, Ivan Jakovčić, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Benedek Jávor, Danuta Jazłowiecka, Petr Ježek, Josu Juaristi Abaunz, Philippe Juvin, Karin Kadenbach, Eva Kaili, Jarosław Kalinowski, Rikke Karlsson, Karol Karski, Manolis Kefalogiannis, Tunne Kelam, Seán Kelly, Afzal Khan, Timothy Kirkhope, Jude Kirton-Darling, Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, Jeppe Kofod, Bernd Kölmel, Kateřina Konečná, Ádám Kósa, Dietmar Köster, Stelios Kouloglou, Béla Kovács, Andrey Kovatchev, Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz, Zdzisław Krasnodębski, Barbara Kudrycka, Eduard Kukan, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Kostadinka Kuneva, Merja Kyllönen, Georgios Kyrtsos, Alain Lamassoure, Jean Lambert, Gabrielius Landsbergis, Esther de Lange, Marju Lauristin, Giovanni La Via, Gilles Lebreton, Constance Le Grip, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Jo Leinen, Jeroen Lenaers, Janusz Lewandowski, Andrew Lewer, Philippe Loiseau, Sander Loones, Javi López, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Bernd Lucke, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Peter Lundgren, David McAllister, Linda McAvan, Emma McClarkin, Mairead McGuinness, Petr Mach, Anthea McIntyre, Monica Macovei, Svetoslav Hristov Malinov, Curzio Maltese, Andrejs Mamikins, Ramona Nicole Mănescu, Vladimír Maňka, Marian-Jean Marinescu, António Marinho e Pinto, Edouard Martin, Jiří Maštálka, Barbara Matera, Gabriel Mato, Costas Mavrides, Gesine Meissner, Joëlle Mélin, Nuno Melo, Morten Messerschmidt, Tamás Meszerics, Roberta Metsola, Iskra Mihaylova, Miroslav Mikolášik, Francisco José Millán Mon, Matthijs van Miltenburg, Anne-Marie Mineur, Marlene Mizzi, Angelika Mlinar, Sorin Moisă, Csaba Molnár, Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar, Sophie Montel, Clare Moody, Claude Moraes, Nadine Morano, Luigi Morgano, Elisabeth Morin-Chartier, Alessia Maria Mosca, Ulrike Müller, Siegfried Mureşan, Alessandra Mussolini, József Nagy, Javier Nart, Victor Negrescu, Momchil Nekov, Norica Nicolai, Angelika Niebler, Luděk Niedermayer, Péter Niedermüller, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Lambert van Nistelrooij, Andrey Novakov, Franz Obermayr, Jan Olbrycht, Stanisław Ożóg, Artis Pabriks, Urmas Paet, Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz, Rolandas Paksas, Massimo Paolucci, Demetris Papadakis, Gilles Pargneaux, Margot Parker, Aldo Patriciello, Eva Paunova, Emilian Pavel, Piernicola Pedicini, Alojz Peterle, Marijana Petir, Florian Philippot, Tonino Picula, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Kati Piri, Georgi Pirinski, Julia Pitera, Gianni Pittella, Andrej Plenković, Pavel Poc, Miroslav Poche, Salvatore Domenico Pogliese, Stanislav Polčák, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Jiří Pospíšil, Soraya Post, Cristian Dan Preda, Gabriele Preuß, Carolina Punset, Emil Radev, Jozo Radoš, Laurenţiu Rebega, Viviane Reding, Evelyn Regner, Julia Reid, Michel Reimon, Christine Revault D'Allonnes Bonnefoy, Sofia Ribeiro, Dominique Riquet, Robert Rochefort, Liliana Rodrigues, Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero Fernández, Claude Rolin, Bronis Ropė, Virginie Rozière, Fernando Ruas, Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner, Tokia Saïfi, Sofia Sakorafa, Anne Sander, Alfred Sant, Daciana Octavia Sârbu, Judith Sargentini, Petri Sarvamaa, Algirdas Saudargas, Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, Christel Schaldemose, Elly Schlein, Claudia Schmidt, György Schöpflin, Annie Schreijer-Pierik, Jordi Sebastià, Olga Sehnalová, Jasenko Selimovic, Remo Sernagiotto, Ricardo Serrão Santos, Jill Seymour, Pedro Silva Pereira, Siôn Simon, Branislav Škripek, Monika Smolková, Csaba Sógor, Michaela Šojdrová, Igor Šoltes, Renate Sommer, Renato Soru, Barbara Spinelli, Maria Spyraki, Bart Staes, Joachim Starbatty, Ivan Štefanec, Jutta Steinruck, Helga Stevens, Davor Ivo Stier, Catherine Stihler, Olaf Stuger, Dubravka Šuica, Patricija Šulin, Pavel Svoboda, Neoklis Sylikiotis, Eleftherios Synadinos, Antonio Tajani, Hannu Takkula, Dario Tamburrano, Charles Tannock, Claudia Tapardel, Marc Tarabella, Indrek Tarand, Keith Taylor, Pavel Telička, Josep-Maria Terricabras, Michael Theurer, Isabelle Thomas, Patrizia Toia, László Tőkés, Ruža Tomašić, Romana Tomc, Yana Toom, Ulla Tørnæs, Estefanía Torres Martínez, Nils Torvalds, Evžen Tošenovský, Ulrike Trebesius, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Mylène Troszczynski, Mihai Ţurcanu, Claude Turmes, Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, István Ujhelyi, Vladimir Urutchev, Viktor Uspaskich, Inese Vaidere, Ivo Vajgl, Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso, Adina-Ioana Vălean, Bodil Valero, Marco Valli, Tom Vandenkendelaere, Geoffrey Van Orden, Derek Vaughan, Hilde Vautmans, Paavo Väyrynen, Sabine Verheyen, Daniele Viotti, Henna Virkkunen, Anders Primdahl Vistisen, Udo Voigt, Axel Voss, Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi, Jarosław Wałęsa, Julie Ward, Renate Weber, Josef Weidenholzer, Bogdan Brunon Wenta, Cecilia Wikström, Glenis Willmott, Iuliu Winkler, Janusz Wojciechowski, Anna Záborská, Theodoros Zagorakis, Jan Zahradil, Boris Zala, Pablo Zalba Bidegain, Marco Zanni, Flavio Zanonato, Tatjana Ždanoka, Tomáš Zdechovský, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Auke Zijlstra, Roberts Zīle, Gabriele Zimmer, Jana Žitňanská, Kosma Złotowski, Damiano Zoffoli, Carlos Zorrinho, Milan Zver, Tadeusz Zwiefka.