8. Calls on the Bahraini authorities to lift all entry restrictions for foreign journalists and international human rights organisations and to allow an independent mechanism for monitoring the evolution of the situation on the ground; calls for the establishment of an international monitoring mechanism, to be set up through a resolution of the UN Human Rights Council to be adopted during its next session in March 2013, with a mandate to monitor the implementation of the recommendations of the BICI and of the UN Universal Periodic Review of Bahrain, including those relating to human rights defenders ...[+++]; calls on the Bahraini authorities to adopt measures to deter future human rights violations;

8. Calls on the Bahraini authorities to lift all entry restrictions for foreign journalists and international human rights organisations and to allow an independent mechanism for monitoring the evolution of the situation on the ground; calls for the establishment of an international monitoring mechanism, to be set up through a resolution of the UN Human Rights Council to be adopted during its next session in March 2013, with a mandate to monitor the implementation of the recommendations of the BICI and of the UN Universal Periodic Review of Bahrain, including those relating to human rights defenders ...[+++]; calls on the Bahraini authorities to adopt measures to deter future human rights violations;

18. Expresses its grave concern over the situation of third-country nationals applying for refugee status on the grounds of sexual orientation, such as Mehdi Kazemi and Pegah Emambakhsh, who are at risk of being repatriated from the UK to Iran and of being executed; recalls that expulsion of persons to a third country where they would be at risk of persecution, torture or death is a violation of European and international human rights obligations; asks the EU institutions and Member States concerned to find a solution to ensure that these two persons are not repatriated to Iran, and to monitor and evaluate the application of EU asylum law in the Member States; asks the Commission to address and resolve these issues through its forthcomin ...[+++]g amendments to Council Regulation (EC) No 343/2003 of 18 February 2003 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national and Council Directive 2004/83/EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted;

20. Notes that the new UNHRC has the potential to develop into a valuable framework for the EU's multilateral human rights efforts and recognises that, in its first year of existence, the UNHRC set an ambitious working programme which includes reviewing and maintaining of the system of Special Procedures, the establishment and implementation of the Universal Periodic Review to which all states will be subject, the definition of its working methods and the promotion and protection of human rights, especially where those rights have been violated or are at risk; regrets, however, that the new UNHRC has proven to be ineffectual in respondi ...[+++]ng appropriately to human rights crises around the world due to the use of the UNHRC by many states as a forum for political pressure instead of the promotion of human rights; calls on the EU institutions and EU Member States to play a more active role in the UNHRC within the framework of the community of democracies, in order to strengthen and deepen democratic norms and practices worldwide;

This examination of each claim in chronological order of receipt shall be followed until a claim is found for which prior rights on the name in question are confirmed by a validation agent.

Whereas the right of a transport undertaking to compensation will arise at the time of the decision by a Member State to maintain the public service obligation in question ; whereas, however, because budgets are drawn up on an annual basis such right cannot arise during the initial period of operation of this Regulation before 1 January 1971 ; whereas this date, may in the event of the time limit for the study of applications from transport undertakings being extended, likewise be altered to a later date;