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"Mr President, I want to begin by thanking the rapporteurs, Mr Sousa Pinto and Mr Turco, for their excellent reports.
The fight against drug abuse and the drug trade is important. This report has been produced to complement the current regulation concerning the Monitoring Centre. Moreover, it is intended that the candidate countries should be involved in the work. Let me comment on that first of all. It is, in fact, important that the candidate countries be involved. I myself come from Sweden. In recent years, we have developed cooperation with the Baltic countries and with Poland in order to end the drugs trade and prevent drug abuse. The drug trade is not confined by national borders. We must therefore have cross-border cooperation to prevent the trade from developing.
The same applies to cooperation with Norway. Norway participates in the internal market and is to become a member of Schengen. Norway has much the same problems as Sweden when it comes to drugs crossing the border. It is therefore important that we cooperate and gather information from these neighbouring countries, as well as study how they conduct their policies.
The rapporteur also deals with how the Centre operates at present. I think he draws an important distinction, for the Centre should not be dabbling in politics. Instead, it is we who should be engaged in politics here in political assemblies, as well as in the Member States – in fact, mainly in the Member States, when it comes to drugs policy. However, the Centre should create a basis for political decisions. In this regard, there are at present deficiencies when it comes to collecting statistics. We must obtain relevant and reliable information which can be compared. What is more, the Centre can carry out analyses and assess the objectives which we in the political assemblies establish, so that we might revise policy accordingly. The Centre must become significantly better in this area than it is at present. Analyses must be carried out of the policies which are applied – different types of policy are pursued in, for example, the Netherlands and Sweden. I think it is important for us to analyse what these differences, in the guise of policy, in fact look like when it comes to problems such as drug abuse by young people."@en1
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