Traduction de «Violation des droits issus de traité » (Français → Anglais) :

Stresses that the effective protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms constitutes the core of democracy and the rule of law in the EU and an essential condition of the consolidation of the European area of freedom, security and justice and that it requires actions at various levels (international, European, national, regional and local level); stresses, moreover, the role that regional and local authorities can play in the concrete implementation and in the promotion of such rights; therefore calls on all EU institutions, Member States’ governments and parliaments to build on the new institutional and legal framework created by the Treaty of Lisbon to devise ...[+++] a comprehensive internal human rights policy for the Union which ensures effective accountability mechanisms, both at national and EU level, to address human rights violations;

Expects concrete actions by the new Commissioner responsible, in line with already declared intentions: particularly and most importantly, welcomes the commitment to introduce a fundamental-rights impact assessment of all new legislative proposals; to oversee the legislative process to ensure that emerging final texts comply with the Charter; to apply a ‘zero tolerance’ policy on violations of the Charter, conducting in-depth investigations and initiating infringement procedures when Member States are in breach of their human rights obligations in implementing EU law; and to make sure EU citizens are properly informed on the new funda ...[+++]mental-rights architecture; calls for follow-up to the 2003 Communication on Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union (COM(2003)0606) to define a transparent and coherent way to address possible violations of human rights and make relevant use of Article 7 TEU on the basis of the new fundamental-rights architecture;

Numerous and often drastic instances of violations of the rights of people who, solely because of their Christian faith, are treated as second-class citizens are evidence of the violation of the fundamental principle of human freedom: the freedom to practise a faith.

13. Recalls that compliance with fundamental rights is one of the basic pre-conditions for accession to the European Union; is alarmed at the large number of violations of fundamental rights through abuses by the police, the trafficking in human beings, violations of children’s rights and violations of the rights of minorities (in particular the Roma and of disabled persons living in institutions) in certain candidate countries; calls on the Commission systematically to consider the human rights situation in countries applying for accession in the accession negotiations and carefully to monitor the implementation of the acquis communau ...[+++]taire in the field of non-discrimination, paying particular attention not only to formal implementation, but also to the situation on the ground in the countries concerned;

4. In the event of breach of fundamental rights, which are general principles of Community law definitively interpreted in the Charter, the Commission could take action on the grounds of this breach against the Member State concerned under Article 226 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, provided that the breach occurred in the field of Community law.

The application by the Netherlands put forward six pleas, relating respectively to the incorrect legal basis for the Directive, breach of the principle of subsidiarity, breach of the principle of legal certainty, breach of obligations in international law, breach of the fundamental right to respect for human dignity and breach of procedural rules in the adoption of the Commission's proposal.