Det er som sagt et lille skridt, som trods alt er velkomment, og for hvilket Udvalget om Borgernes Friheder og Rettigheder, Retsvæsen og Indre Anliggender med rette har ønsket at foreskrive yderligere grænser og forholdsregler for at forsvare de grundlæggende menneskerettigheder, der er gældende i medlemsstaterne og i selve Unionen, selvom de endnu ikke er blevet stadfæstet i et EU-charter for grundlæggende rettigheder. Vi håber, at et sådant charter snart ser dagens lys.
A small step - I say - but nonetheless a welcome one, for which the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs has quite correctly wanted to prescribe further restrictions and guarantees in the name of the defence of the fundamental rights of the individual that are in force in the Member States and in the Union itself, even if these are not yet enshrined in a European Union charter of rights, which we hope will soon come into being: just restrictions and guarantees because, unfortunately, existing rights are, in practice, not always respected by every public authority in every Member State.