La Diputada del Común, Lola Padrón, ha solicitado a la Consejería de Presidencia, Administraciones Publicas, Justicia y Seguridad que se adopten las medidas necesarias para que, con la diligencia debida y en estricto cumplimiento de la Ley Canaria de Educación no Universitaria, se proceda a destinar al presupuesto educativo el 5% del producto interior bruto canario, conforme al mínimo que regula la...
Organised By FRA In collaboration with the European Commission
Joint event
The “Annual EU CharterXchange” is an initiative of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Commission to enhance the application of the rights enshrined in the EU Charter for Fundamental Rights (EU Charter). The European Commission’s 'Strategy to strengthen the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the EU’, adopted in 2020, and the subsequent Council conclusions on strengthening the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in the European Union call for further efforts in the Member States to promote the application of the EU Charter. The CharterXchange contributes to this objective by increasing the exchange of knowledge and experience and fostering collaboration among experts, policymakers, and stakeholders through a regular forum, which started in 2023, dedicated to the EU Charter.
10:30 – 11:15European Commission’s 2024 Annual Report on the Application of the EU Charter
Ingrid Bellander Todino, European Commission
Presentation will be recorded
11:15 – 11:30Exchange, Questions and Answers
Moderated by Martina Törnkvist, European Commission
11:15 – 11:30Break
11:30 – 12:25Promoting the application of the EU charter at sub-national level
This know-how session will explore concrete areas where the EU Charter can add value to cities and other local authorities. At the session, two cities will showcase how they made use of the EU Charter in their local action. The discussion with participants will aim to identify what information, tools and/or materials could help to empower more cities in promoting and applying the EU Charter, and fundamental rights. The discussion will build on experiences from human rights cities in the EU.
Moderated by Morten Kjaerum, Adj. Prof., Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Geraldine Guille, FRA
Contribution bytwo cities
Presentation will be recorded
12:25 – 13:20The EU Charter horizontal enabling condition in practice
This interactive expert session targets practitioners working in the administration of EU funds. It will focus on sharing of promising practices in the application of the enabling condition on the Charter and what can Member States learn from one another in this area.
Moderated by Jeroen Jutte, European Commission, and Robert-Jan Uhl, FRA
10:05 – 10:20Recent CJEU case law on the EU Charter
This presentation is directed at judges, lawyers and other legal practitioners who want to know more about the Charter and its use before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Moderated by Martina Törnkvist, European Commission
Presentation will be recorded
10:20 – 10:35Questions and Answers
10:35 – 11:20The Charter before Supreme and Constitutional Courts
This interactive expert session is directed at judges, lawyers and legal practitioners interested in the practical use of the Charter in national courtrooms. It will discuss how national courts can navigate conflicting interpretations of the Charter by international and national courts. The session will allow judges to exchange promising practices and practical solutions.
Welcoming words: Ingrid Derveaux, Secretary General, European Judicial Training Network (EJTN)
Moderated by: Lorenza Calcagno, Ac (EJTN), and Sanja Jovicic, FRA
11:20 – 11:30Break
11:30 – 12:30Using the EU Charter of fundamental rights to protect democracy and the rule of law in EU Member States
This session is a combination of a presentation and an interactive expert session. It targets judges, lawyers and other legal practitioners who have an interest in the link between the Charter and democracy as well as the rule of law. After a short presentation by John Morijn, there will be an interactive exchange of case law and concrete experiences amongst the participants.
Moderated and introduced by: John Morijn and Gabriel N. Toggenburg, FRA
12:30 – 13:20 The European Arrest Warrant and the EU Charter
This interactive expert session targets judges, lawyers and other legal practitioners and will focus on the role of the Charter in the European Arrest Warrant Proceedings. The objective is to exchange on case law and concrete experiences amongst the participants when it comes to issuing and executing European Arrest Warrants and the principle of proportionality and fundamental rights-based grounds for non-execution.
Moderated by: Jesca Beneder, European Commission, and Jana Gajdosova, FRA
10:05 – 11:00The EU Charter, the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) and their interaction against the background of the EU’s accession to the Convention
This session will start with two presentations: one on the status quo and implications of the accession delivered by the EU’s chief negotiator for the European Union and one on the interplay between the EU Charter and the ECHR. Then the session will engage in an interactive exchange between practitioners, academia and law students on what accession to the ECHR means for the EU and especially its Charter of fundamental rights.
Moderated by FRA
Presentation will be recorded
11:00 – 12:00Drivers, hurdles and promising practices in the application of the Charter: examples from the Member States
This exchange amongst practitioners from the different Member States offers a forum for the exchange of experiences and for mutual learning. Civil servants, legal practitioners and researchers are invited to share initiatives aimed at enhancing the application of the Charter.
Moderated by: Sanja Jovicic, FRA
12:00 – 12:15Break
12:15 – 13:15The EU asylum pact and the Charter
This session brings together legal practitioners dealing with asylum and migration law to exchange experience with using the Charter in areas covered by the Asylum Pact.
Moderated by: Eftychia Katanaki, EUAA , and European Commission
Date of decision: 2024-06-27 Decision case number: 2683-2023Decision maker: Ombudsman
A person who visited a police station to report a crime was asked to come back a few hours later, as the reporting desk was closed at the time. The Parliamentary Ombudsman states that the criminal activity the person wanted to report was of such a nature that it should have been reported immediately in accordance with the applicable procedure at the police station.
The Parliamentary Ombudsman further states that it appears unsatisfactory for it only to be possible to report a crime at an open police station at a particular time of day. Even if an exception is made for urgent cases, it may give the impression that the Policy Authority is not sufficiently prioritising its task of investigating and combatting crimes subject to public prosecution.
The Parliamentary Ombudsman notes that it is of urgent public interest for an individual to be able to quickly and simply contact the police to report a crime. Insufficient accessibility risks harming public trust in the Police Authority and may reduce people’s willingness to report a crime.
Farmers complained against the positioning of a bottle return machine that blocked the water pipe that directed rainwater to their reservoir at Mqabba.
The investigation
The Commissioner found that the permit for this machine has not yet been issued by the Planning Authority and asked for common sense to prevail by moving this machine a few meters in order to allow the easy flow of rainwater to the farmers’ reservoir. Following weeks of inaction during the rainy season, the Commissioner suggested the shifting of this machine away from the inlet as soon as possible or by else by temporarily raising it on masonry blocks in order to allow the free flow of water.
After the farmers’ right to collect water from the street was raised by the Local Council, the Commissioner highlighted that it is not right to question the farmers’ water-collection rights when the farmers in the area were doing the right thing and collecting and re-using rainwater. The Local Council should rather promote and aid similar initiatives.
Conclusions and recommendations
The Commissioner reiterated again that this machine should be moved and even recommended compensation for the farmers’ loss of water and enforcement action by the Planning Authority and the Police.
Outcome
Following immediate intervention by the Police the machine was moved and the Planning Authority imposed the introduction of sanctioning in the relative permit application.
If the tradition of the Song and Dance Festival is important to us as a country, the Ombudsman calls for the new model of remuneration of artistic collective leaders to be approved without delay.
None of the state and local government websites included in the Ombudsman’s research are fully accessible, which makes access to information for people with disabilities considerably more difficult. Problems exist both for websites hosted on the unified platform of State and local government websites created specifically for compliance with accessibility requirements and for those not hosted on that platform.
The Ombudsman, Apeirons and the National Library of Latvia invite non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of Latvia representing the interests of people with disabilities to submit information about themselves and their projects on the website ej.uz/NVOkontaktbirza until October 1st, which will be published on the platform asistenti.lv in the section “NGO kontaktbirža”, as well as to plan participation in the on-site networking on December 4 at the National Library of Latvia.
Targeted support for both children who want to get out of the marsh of addictive substances and those who do not want to be treated, although this should be done without delay – it is the duty of the state to provide this type of assistance. However, the Ombudsman’s voluminous report vividly highlights the harsh reality that this is rarely the case in practice.
The guidelines prepared by the Ombudsman’s Office ‘Recommendations for trustees, sworn advocates, courts, Orphan’s and Custody Courts and credit institutions on the provision of banking services to persons with limited capacity’ provide a detailed insight into the parties involved in the process of restricting person’s capacity to act, identifying the aspects that must be observed providing banking services.
Spain
- Aragon
