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    This written declaration submitted to the European Parliament concerns ensuring dignity at the end of life. It asserts that dignity is a fundamental value of the European Union that must be guaranteed for all stages of life, including the right to die with dignity. It calls on the European Commission to analyze end-of-life practices in member states to identify best practices and facilitate an exchange of these practices to ensure all EU citizens can experience a dignified end of life. The declaration is to be forwarded to the Council and Commission.

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    This written declaration submitted to the European Parliament concerns ensuring dignity at the end of life. It asserts that dignity is a fundamental value of the European Union that must be guaranteed for all stages of life, including the right to die with dignity. It calls on the European Commission to analyze end-of-life practices in member states to identify best practices and facilitate an exchange of these practices to ensure all EU citizens can experience a dignified end of life. The declaration is to be forwarded to the Council and Commission.

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    Declaracion Pro Eutanasia

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    This written declaration submitted to the European Parliament concerns ensuring dignity at the end of life. It asserts that dignity is a fundamental value of the European Union that must be guaranteed for all stages of life, including the right to die with dignity. It calls on the European Commission to analyze end-of-life practices in member states to identify best practices and facilitate an exchange of these practices to ensure all EU citizens can experience a dignified end of life. The declaration is to be forwarded to the Council and Commission.

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    European Parliament

    2014-2019

    0055/2015
    5.10.2015

    WRITTEN DECLARATION
    submitted under Rule 136 of the Rules of Procedure
    on dignity at the end of life
    Inmaculada Rodrguez-Piero Fernndez (S&D), Gilles Pargneaux
    (S&D), Virginie Rozire (S&D), Marina Albiol Guzmn (GUE/NGL),
    Jordi Sebasti (Verts/ALE), Frdrique Ries (ALDE), Ernest Urtasun
    (Verts/ALE), Maria Arena (S&D), Enrique Calvet Chambon (ALDE),
    Julie Ward (S&D), Elena Valenciano (S&D), Sophia in t Veld (ALDE),
    Jos Blanco Lpez (S&D), Marie-Christine Vergiat (GUE/NGL)

    Lapse date: 5.1.2016

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    0055/2015
    Written declaration, under Rule 136 of Parliaments Rules of Procedure, on dignity at
    the end of life1

    1. Dignity, as an indivisible and universal value upon which the Union is founded, must be
    guaranteed at all stages of life.
    2. The right to a life in dignity requires the right to die in dignity.
    3. All European citizens, regardless of their nationality, who are in an advanced or terminal
    phase of an incurable illness, causing unbearable physical or mental suffering that cannot
    be alleviated, should be able to benefit from medical assistance to end their life with
    dignity.
    4. Article 35 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and Articles 6(a),
    9 and 168 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) confer
    competences on the Union to coordinate or complement the actions of the Member States
    in the protection and improvement of public health.
    5. The Commission is called upon to undertake an analysis of the various forms of end-oflife health services provided in the Member States in order to identify best practices.
    6. The Commission is called upon to facilitate the exchange between Member States of best
    practices concerning end-of-life health services in order to ensure the human dignity of all
    citizens at the end of life.
    7. This declaration, together with the names of the signatories, is forwarded to the Council
    and the Commission.

    Under Rule 136(4) and (5) of Parliaments Rules of Procedure, where a declaration is signed by a majority of
    Parliaments component Members, it is published in the minutes with the names of its signatories and forwarded
    to the addressees, without however binding Parliament.

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