EU « Returns » Directive. 10 recommendations for a protective harmonization in line with Human Rights Date: 22-02-2008
Author: FIDH
EU « Returns » Directive. 10 recommendations for a protective harmonization in line with Human Rights

Brussels, the 11th of February 2008
FIDH is concerned by the proposal of this Directive such as amended by the Parliament’s LIBE commission. Four propositions are of particular concern to us insofar as they do not conform to European and international fundamental rights.
FIDH would like to draw the attention of the Members of European Parliament and of the Council to the fact that many of these provisions are contrary to the commitments undertaken barely three years ago by the member states of the EU in the framework of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers.
FIDH thus recommends taking into account the following recommendations in order to insure the conformity of the proposed Directive with the international obligations and commitments of the member states. It is only under these conditions that the directive can be both legally acceptable and politically defendable.
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