By letter of 4 July 2011 the Chair of the Committee on Employment and Social Affair, which is an associated committee within the meaning of Rule 50, with the main committee being the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, asked the Committee on Legal Affairs, pursuant to Rule 37 of the Rules of Procedure, to take up a question relating to the legal basis of the above-mentioned proposal for a directive.

(3) Greece submitted an application to mobilise the EGF, in respect of redundancies in the enterprise Nutriart S.A and 25 providers and downstream producers: AR.ZIGAS SIA and 24 self-employed people whose activity ceased and was dependent on the primary enterprise, on 5 February 2014 and supplemented it by additional information as provided by Article 8.3 of Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013.

132. Calls on the EU to hold its own agents liable for any infringements of fundamental rights they might commit; in particular, calls for assurances to be given that an investigation will be opened, following allegations that infringements were committed during operations coordinated by the Frontex agency, and that appropriate measures, of a disciplinary or other nature, will be taken against those who are shown to have committed such infringements; to that end calls for an internal Frontex redress mechanism as requested by the European Ombudsman in his investigation into Case OI/5/2012/BEH-MHZ and for the conclusions of investigation ...[+++]s into allegations of human rights infringements to be made public; calls, moreover, for Frontex operations to be halted where infringements of human rights have been committed during such operations, as provided for in Article 3(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1168/2011;

Therefore, this Regulation sets out two specific situations in which the court seised of a request to open secondary insolvency proceedings should be able, at the request of the insolvency practitioner in the main insolvency proceedings, to postpone or refuse the opening of such proceedings.

19. Is particularly concerned about the torture of human rights defenders in prisons, including community activists, journalists, human rights lawyers and bloggers; recognises that it is often the people who are most involved in the fight for human rights and democracy who suffer the most through unlawful detention, intimidation, torture and the exposure of their families to danger; insists that both EU missions on the ground and high-level EU officials systematically and consistently raise this issue in meetings with their third-country counterparts, including by mentionin ...[+++]g the names of specific human rights defenders who are in prison;

3. Calls for the stepping down of Bashar al Assad whose regime has failed to meet its responsibility to protect its population according to the International Law and lost any legitimacy; recalls the main findings of the report of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria which stated that crimes against humanity may have been committed in the country; takes the view that clear mechanisms for accountability must be at the heart of the UNSC’s efforts to end the Syrian crisis while endorsing once again the call by UN Human Rights Commissioner for referring Syria to the ICC with the aim to conduct independent and impartial investig ...[+++]ations into the events in Syria, to hold account all suspected perpetrators of such grave crimes and to avoid more victims; urges at the same time the UNSC to put in place an UN arms embargo against the Syrian regime;