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First of all, it should be pointed out that many of those involved in the incidents that occurred in Brussels and Charleroi, come from one of the European Union’s Member States, the United Kingdom, which is not a member of the Schengen area. These are therefore people who, when travelling to see football matches at Euro 2000, were subject to checks carried out at the external borders of the Schengen area.
It should also be borne in mind that for the duration of Euro 2000, the Belgian and Dutch Governments made use of a safeguard clause in Article 2(2) of the Schengen Agreement, which lays down that, when public order or national security are threatened – and in my view, the fear generated by these cases of ‘hooliganism’ certainly meets these criteria – a Member State may decide that, for a limited period, national border controls, adapted specially for the situation, can be implemented, even at internal borders within the Schengen area.
The Belgian and Dutch Governments adhered to the prior consultation procedure laid down by the Schengen Agreement. The controls that are envisaged therein were temporarily reintroduced at internal borders, but this was not carried out in a systematic way. These were targeted checks, specifically based on information supplied by the Member States in the framework of police cooperation, concerning supporters likely to pose a threat to public order.
Establishing controls at the external borders and, temporarily, at the internal borders of the Schengen area is not the same as closing a border or systematically turning away people who wish to enter the territory in order to attend a football match. In accordance with the Treaty establishing the European Community, the Union’s citizens have the right to move freely through the territory of Member States. Restrictions may be imposed, however, for reasons of public order and in individual cases only, i.e. when the person concerned represents a genuine and sufficiently serious threat to society’s fundamental wellbeing.
This is why I say that Community law does not allow for a collective restriction to be imposed. Having the nationality of a given Member State and wanting to attend a football match are not sufficient grounds for being turned back at the border. This is why an assessment of the measures for cooperation between the authorities of the Member States concerned is already underway and why this joint exercise aims to learn the lessons of Euro 2000, in order to see how police and judicial cooperation can in the future be improved in terms of combating hooliganism."@en1
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