– Under Rule 19(4), may I ask you to personally intervene with the Greek authorities on behalf of my constituents Paul and Lesley Coppin of Mildenhall, and Anna Skinner of Epping, in relation to her brother Anthony Adamiak, and on behalf of the other Europeans who are currently in jail in Greece for plane spotting.

Bill C-69, therefore, provides the following: imposition of a one-year waiting period after a request for pardon has been turned down; automatic revocation of a pardon upon subsequent conviction for a mixed offence, that is one liable to either summary conviction or indictment. There is also a provision enabling notations to be made in the automated criminal conviction records retrieval system of the records of pardoned persons in order to allow the disclosure of these records when individuals are screened for positions of trust with children or other vulnerable groups.

Whereas some applications relate to investment expenditure for the purchase or modernisation of vessels, aircraft, land vehicles, systems to locate and record fishing activities and systems to record, manage and transmit data on the controls, including computer and software applications;

Whereas the applications refer to expenditure for the acquisition or modernization of vessels, aircraft and land vehicles including their equipment, systems for the detection and recording of fishing activities and systems for recording and transmitting catch data and other relevant information;

risk assessment and cooperation with other Member States and relevant EU bodies ; measures to detect trafficking in human beings and early identification of victims of trafficking, including by deployment of officers specialised to combat trafficking; launching or supporting targeted campaigns, including by civil society, encompassing adequate information directed to relevant target groups in order to reduce the risk of becoming victim of trafficking in human beings; developing and implementing measures that discourage the demand for such victims; ...[+++]measures with a view to provide an adequate level of assistance to and protection of victims of trafficking in human beings, including for instance the establishment of adequate shelters and 24/7 multi-lingual hotlines; best possible cooperation with civil society and with the organisers of the event, such as sports associations; the deployment of law enforcement officers to the Member States holding an event with a view to establishing operative cooperation to detect and dismantle a temporary increase in trafficking during the event".

The third element is the possibility of expedited processing of claims from designated countries of origin, as well as the identification and expediting of obviously fraudulent claims.