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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-1093/article-3",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2012/1093",
  "legislation_title": "Decision No 1093/2012/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 on the European Year of Citizens (2013)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-1093",
  "path": "article/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Initiatives involved",
  "text": "1. The measures to be taken to achieve the objectives set out in Article 2 may include the following initiatives organised at Union, national, regional or local level:\n(a) initiating information, media coverage, education and awareness-raising campaigns targeted at the general public and more specific audiences;\n(b) exchanging information and sharing experience and good practices among Union, national, regional and local authorities and other public and civil society organisations;\n(c) organising conferences, hearings, including by means of the internet, and other events to promote debate and raise awareness of the importance and benefits of the right of freedom of movement and residence, and more generally on the concept of Union citizenship and the rights attached to it;\n(d) using the existing multilingual participatory tools to stimulate the active involvement of civil society organisations and of citizens in the European Year of Citizens, including such direct democracy tools as the citizens’ initiative and public consultations;\n(e) strengthening the role and visibility of existing tools for informing citizens, including modern information and communication technology tools, such as the multilingual Europe Direct information centres and Your Europe web portal as key elements of a 'one-stop-shop' information system relating to Union citizens’ rights;\n(f) strengthening the role and visibility of problem-solving tools, such as SOLVIT, in order to enable Union citizens to make better use of, and defend their rights, under Union law;\n(g) providing Union citizens with information about the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions and the European Ombudsman in order to enable them to make better use of, and defend their rights under, Union law; and\n(h) promoting the EU Citizenship Report, which is to be based on a thorough debate and active contributions by citizens and stakeholders, and which is to identify further obstacles preventing Union citizens from fully exercising Union citizenship rights and to promote appropriate strategies to remove those obstacles.\n2. Details of the initiatives referred to in paragraph 1 are set out in the Annex.\n3. The Commission and the Member States may identify other activities which could contribute to objectives of the European Year of Citizens set out in Article 2 and allow the name of the European Year of Citizens to be used in promoting those activities in so far as they contribute to achieving those objectives.\n4. In the context of initiatives organised in the framework of the European Year of Citizens, consideration shall be given to identifying obstacles to the exercise of the rights by the Union citizens and to promoting appropriate ways and strategies to remove those obstacles, as well as to promoting inter-cultural understanding of discrimination and fighting against it. Synergies shall therefore be sought between those initiatives and existing tools and programmes in the field of fundamental rights, citizens’ rights, employment and social affairs, education and culture.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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