improve the security and accessibility of the system by providing for uniform requirements for officers on the ground on how to process SIS data in a secure way and ensure business-continuity for end-users; strengthen data protection by introducing additional safeguards to ensure that the collection and processing of and access to data is limited to what is strictly necessary, in full respect of EU legislation and fundamental rights, including the right to effective remedies; improve information sharing and cooperation between Member States, notably through the introduction of a new alert category on "unknown wanted persons" and full access rights for Europol ; help combat terrorism by introducing the obligation to create a SIS alert in ...[+++]cases related to terrorist offences and a new 'inquiry check' to help authorities gather essential information; better protect children by allowing authorities to issue, in addition to alerts for missing children, preventive alerts for children who are at high risk of abduction; contribute to the effective enforcement of entry bans for third-country nationals at the external border by making their introduction in the SIS compulsory; improve the enforcement of return decisions issued to irregularly staying third-country nationals by introducing a new alert category for return decisions; make more effective use of data such as facial imaging and palm prints to identify persons entering the Schengen area; strengthen the support for prevention and investigation of theft and counterfeiting by providing for alerts to be issued on a wider range of stolen and falsified goods and documents.

25. Notes with regret the slowness of the process of examining cases at the European Court of Human Rights, which has been as much as seven years; notes that there are about 100 000 cases pending at the Court; stresses that the Court must be an exemplary institution for the protection of the right to justice and a fair trial; urges the EU institutions and the EU Member States to make every effort to assist the Court; welcomes the fact that Russia, which was the last country out of 47 participating states at the Council of Europe to refuse to ratify Protocol 14, has ratified Protocol 14 to the European Convention of Human Rights on th ...[+++]e efficiency of the Court, which provides for simplification of the Court's procedures and is intended to help it tackle the backlog of cases and which can only enter into force when ratified by all Council of Europe members;

25. Notes with regret the slowness of the process of examining cases at the European Court of Human Rights, which has been as much as seven years; notes that there are about 100 000 cases pending at the Court; stresses that the Court must be an exemplary institution for the protection of the right to justice and a fair trial; urges the EU institutions and the EU Member States to make every effort to assist the Court; welcomes the fact that Russia, which was the last country out of 47 participating states at the Council of Europe to refuse to ratify Protocol 14, has ratified Protocol 14 to the European Convention of Human Rights on th ...[+++]e efficiency of the Court, which provides for simplification of the Court's procedures and is intended to help it tackle the backlog of cases and which can only enter into force when ratified by all Council of Europe members;

(9a) The Commission should consider how far the aim of this Directive, namely the simplification of administrative formalities for ships entering and/or leaving EU ports, should be extended to the areas inland of those ports, particularly to river transport, with a view to the quicker and smoother movement of maritime traffic inland and a lasting solution to congestion in and around seaports.

Third-country nationals who do not fulfil all the entry conditions but hold a residence permit or a re-entry visa issued by one of the Member States or, where required, both documents, shall be authorised entry to the territories of the other Member States for transit purposes so that they may reach the territory of the Member State which issued the residence permit or re-entry visa, unless their names are on the national list of alerts of the Member State whose external b ...[+++]orders they are seeking to cross and the alert is accompanied by instructions as to refusal of entry or transit.

Third-country nationals who do not fulfil all the entry conditions but hold a residence permit or a re-entry visa issued by one of the Member States or, where required, both documents, shall be authorised entry to the territories of the other Member States for transit purposes so that they may reach the territory of the Member State which issued the residence permit or re-entry visa, unless their names are on the national list of alerts of the Member State whose external b ...[+++]orders they are seeking to cross and the alert is accompanied by instructions as to refusal of entry or transit.