Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-10-06-Speech-3-112"
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"en.19991006.3.3-112"2
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"We voted against these two Council decisions regarding Europol employees on a point of principle. The Europol Convention was passed in the national parliaments of Member States without any true debate. The ratification of the Convention was merely a rubber-stamping exercise as it was impossible for the national parliament to propose any amendments.
The European Parliament – the only one of the EU institutions which is directly elected by the citizens – was also not consulted at any stage during the two years of negotiations on the Convention’s content. This was in spite of the provisions in Article K6 of the Maastricht Treaty that EU ministers regularly consult Parliament on the principal developments in justice and home affairs and ensure its views are “duly taken into consideration”.
But the most disturbing aspect of all is that Europol officers will, in effect, be above the law. In May 1997, EU justice ministers reached agreement on a protocol granting immunity from prosecution for Europol staff for any “words spoken or written or acts performed by them in the exercise of their official functions” and for unauthorised or incorrect processing of data. This immunity would continue even when somebody stopped working for Europol as “all their official papers and documents and other official materials are inviolable”.
These powers of immunity are extraordinary and not analogous to those enjoyed by any police force within the EU. Such powers are an insult to the rule of law and not in the public interest."@en1
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"Bonde, Krarup (EDD), Lucas, MacCormick, McKenna, Schörling, Ilka Schröder (Greens/ALE ),"1
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