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Kazniva dejanja iz sovraštva
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Romi
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Civilna družba
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Kaj so temeljne pravice?
What is the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights?
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Naslov I: Dostojanstvo
1 - Človekovo dostojanstvo
2 - Pravica do življenja
3 - Pravica do osebne celovitosti
4 - Prepoved mučenja in nečloveškega ali ponižujočega ravnanja ali kaznovanja
5 - Prepoved suženjstva in prisilnega dela.
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6 - Pravica do svobode in varnosti
7 - Spoštovanje zasebnega in družinskega življenja
8 - Varstvo osebnih podatkov
9 - Pravica sklepanja zakonske zveze in pravica ustvarjanja družine
10 - Svoboda misli, vesti in vere
11 - Svoboda izražanja in obveščanja
12 - Svoboda zbiranja in združevanja
13 - Svoboda umetnosti in znanosti
14 - Pravica do izobraževanja
15 - Svoboda izbire poklica in pravica do dela
16 - Svoboda gospodarske pobude
17 - Lastninska pravica
18 - Pravica do azila
19 - Varstvo v primeru odstranitve, izgona ali izročitve
Naslov III: Enakost
20 - Enakost pred zakonom
21 - Prepoved diskriminacije
22 - Kulturna, verska in jezikovna raznolikost
23 - Enakost žensk in moških
24 - Pravice otroka
25 - Pravice starejših
26 - Vključenost invalidov
Naslov IV: Solidarnost
27 - Pravica delavcev do obveščenosti in posvetovanja v podjetju
28 - Pravica do kolektivnih pogajanj in ukrepov
29 - Pravica dostopa do služb za posredovanje zaposlitev
30 - Varstvo v primeru neupravičene odpustitve
31 - Pošteni in pravični delovni pogoji
32 - Prepoved dela otrok in varstvo mladih pri delu
33 - Družinsko in poklicno življenje
34 - Socialna varnost in socialna pomoč
35 - Varovanje zdravja
36 - Dostop do storitev splošnega gospodarskega pomena
37 - Varstvo okolja
38 - Varstvo potrošnikov
Naslov V: Pravice Državljanov
39 - Pravica voliti in biti voljen na volitvah v Evropski parlament
40 - Pravica voliti in biti voljen na občinskih volitvah
41 - Pravica do dobrega upravljanja
42 - Pravica dostopa do dokumentov
43 - Evropski varuh človekovih pravic
44 - Pravica do peticije
45 - Svoboda gibanja in prebiva
46 - Diplomatska in konzularna zaščita
Naslov VI: Sodno Varstvo
47 - Pravica do učinkovitega pravnega sredstva in nepristranskega sodišča
48 - Domneva nedolžnosti in pravica do obrambe
49 - Načeli zakonitosti in sorazmernosti kaznivih dejanj in kazni
50 - Pravica, da se za isto kaznivo dejanje kazensko ne preganja ali kaznuje dvakrat
Naslov VII: Splošne določbe
51 - Področje uporabe
52 - Obseg pravic in načel ter njihova razlaga
53 - Raven varstva
54 - Prepoved zlorabe pravic
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Pravosodno sodelovanje in vladavina prava
Varnost
Podjetništvo in človekove pravice
Enakost, nediskriminacija in rasizem
Otroci, mladina in starejši ljudje
Invalidne osebe
Kazniva dejanja iz sovraštva
Rasno in etnično poreklo
Vera in prepričanja
Romi
Spol, spolna usmerjenost in spolna identiteta
Azil, migracije in meje
Dostop do azila
Meje in informacijski sistemi
Zaščita otrok
Nezakonite migracije, vračanje in pridržanje migrantov
Zakonite migracije in vključevanje
Trgovina z ljudmi in izkoriščanje delovne sile
Varstvo podatkov, zasebnost in nove tehnologije
Umetna inteligenca in velepodatki
Meje in informacijski sistemi
Varstvo podatkov
Nezakonito profiliranje
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Civilna družba
Listina EU o temeljnih pravicah
Listina EU o temeljnih pravicah
Kaj so temeljne pravice?
What is the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights?
Preambula
Naslov I: Dostojanstvo
1 -
Človekovo dostojanstvo
2 -
Pravica do življenja
3 -
Pravica do osebne celovitosti
4 -
Prepoved mučenja in nečloveškega ali ponižujočega ravnanja ali kaznovanja
5 -
Prepoved suženjstva in prisilnega dela.
Naslov II: Svoboščine
6 -
Pravica do svobode in varnosti
7 -
Spoštovanje zasebnega in družinskega življenja
8 -
Varstvo osebnih podatkov
9 -
Pravica sklepanja zakonske zveze in pravica ustvarjanja družine
10 -
Svoboda misli, vesti in vere
11 -
Svoboda izražanja in obveščanja
12 -
Svoboda zbiranja in združevanja
13 -
Svoboda umetnosti in znanosti
14 -
Pravica do izobraževanja
15 -
Svoboda izbire poklica in pravica do dela
16 -
Svoboda gospodarske pobude
17 -
Lastninska pravica
18 -
Pravica do azila
19 -
Varstvo v primeru odstranitve, izgona ali izročitve
Naslov III: Enakost
20 -
Enakost pred zakonom
21 -
Prepoved diskriminacije
22 -
Kulturna, verska in jezikovna raznolikost
23 -
Enakost žensk in moških
24 -
Pravice otroka
25 -
Pravice starejših
26 -
Vključenost invalidov
Naslov IV: Solidarnost
27 -
Pravica delavcev do obveščenosti in posvetovanja v podjetju
28 -
Pravica do kolektivnih pogajanj in ukrepov
29 -
Pravica dostopa do služb za posredovanje zaposlitev
30 -
Varstvo v primeru neupravičene odpustitve
31 -
Pošteni in pravični delovni pogoji
32 -
Prepoved dela otrok in varstvo mladih pri delu
33 -
Družinsko in poklicno življenje
34 -
Socialna varnost in socialna pomoč
35 -
Varovanje zdravja
36 -
Dostop do storitev splošnega gospodarskega pomena
37 -
Varstvo okolja
38 -
Varstvo potrošnikov
Naslov V: Pravice Državljanov
39 -
Pravica voliti in biti voljen na volitvah v Evropski parlament
40 -
Pravica voliti in biti voljen na občinskih volitvah
41 -
Pravica do dobrega upravljanja
42 -
Pravica dostopa do dokumentov
43 -
Evropski varuh človekovih pravic
44 -
Pravica do peticije
45 -
Svoboda gibanja in prebiva
46 -
Diplomatska in konzularna zaščita
Naslov VI: Sodno Varstvo
47 -
Pravica do učinkovitega pravnega sredstva in nepristranskega sodišča
48 -
Domneva nedolžnosti in pravica do obrambe
49 -
Načeli zakonitosti in sorazmernosti kaznivih dejanj in kazni
50 -
Pravica, da se za isto kaznivo dejanje kazensko ne preganja ali kaznuje dvakrat
Naslov VII: Splošne določbe
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Področje uporabe
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Obseg pravic in načel ter njihova razlaga
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Seanad Eireann (Senate of Ireland) debate, Wednesday 6 March 2019. European Parliament Election (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (resumed) and Remaining Stages
Seanad Eireann (Senate of Ireland) debate, Wednesday 6 March 2019. European Parliament Election (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (resumed) and Remaining Stages
Author(s)
Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy John Phelan
Publication month
March
Publication day
6
Publication Year
2019
Senator Alice-Mary Higgins proposed an amendment to the Electoral Act 1992, to extend the right to vote in European elections beyond Irish citizens and European member state citizens to ‘such other persons in the State as may be determined by law’. This attempt to facilitate British citizens voting in European elections post-Brexit was not supported by the government, citing the Lisbon treaty, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the legal advice which was been received (see quote below). The amendment was put and declared lost.
Quote: "I regret to say I will not be able to support the amendment. The amendment is superfluous in its wording, providing for "such other persons in the State as may be determined by law". Perhaps the Senator wishes to specifically identify British citizens. In regard to voting rights, the Houses are not restricted in prescribing categories of people by law and neither is the Minister. In that sense the amendment is not necessarily required. Extensive legal advice was sought on the voting rights of British citizens resident in Ireland in a post-Brexit scenario. The initial opinion advised that European case law prior to the coming into force of the Lisbon treaty in 2009, which we discussed already, suggested that member states had a degree of discretion in extending voting rights to third country citizens resident in their territories, subject to compliance with certain limits. We spoke about close links. The Senator and I referred to the Spain v. the UK case, which concerned Gibraltar. Several other judgments have taken a similar line.
The position changed utterly with the coming into effect of the Lisbon treaty. Article 14.2 of the Treaty on European Union states, "The European Parliament shall be composed of representatives of the Union's citizens", and "Representation of citizens shall be degressively proportional". The corresponding article in the preceding treaty, the treaty establishing the European Economic Community, provided that the European Parliament, "shall consist of representatives of the peoples of the States brought together in the Community". There has been a change. Off the top of my head I do not know of judgments of the European Court of Justice on that particular aspect of the treaty since the coming into effect of the Lisbon treaty.
Moreover, Article 9 of the Treaty on European Union provides:
Every national of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union. Citizenship of the Union shall be additional to and not replace national citizenship.
Article 10 states, "Citizens are directly represented at Union level in the European Parliament". Article 39.1 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union provides, "Every citizen of the Union has the right to vote and to stand as a candidate at elections to the European Parliament in the Member State in which he or she resides, under the same conditions as nationals of that State."
In the absence of post-2009 case law which directly addresses this issue, the initial legal advice concluded that it may be possible for member states to allow citizens of third countries resident in their territories to vote in EU elections.
A more prudent view is that the 2009 amendment to Article 14.2 of the Treaty on European Union and the prospective 2018 amendments to Article 1.1 of the Act of 1976 separately and together create a minimum requirement of Union citizenship to vote and stand in elections to the European Parliament. Further legal advice was sought, which concluded definitively that any proposal to enfranchise British citizens resident in Ireland after the withdrawal of the UK from the Union for the purposes of the European elections would be inconsistent with the law of the European Union."
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-03-06/37/?highlight%5B0…