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". – I will answer the questions from Mr Sacrédeus and Mrs Theorin on the same subject together.
The Commission agrees on the importance of the fight against child sex tourism. The Commission will pursue its actions to protect human dignity by preventing and combating violence against children, including child sex tourism, in the field of cooperation in justice and home affairs.
Last spring and summer the European Commission carried out a general review of its activities and human resources. On 26 July 2000 the Commission concluded that it needed more than 1 200 extra posts to be able to manage all its tasks.
In the past the Commission's executive tasks have increased while its political and legislative work has decreased in relative terms. In July the Commission decided to reverse this trend and reduce its executive tasks in order to have sufficient human resources for the political, legislative and conceptual tasks.
For a wide range of sectors this means the reduction and phasing out of activities. In particular activities financed by small budget lines will be reduced because they are very intensive in terms of human resources.
The sex tourism information and awareness campaigns have had an important role to play. However, in view of the lack of resources and in line with the general trend of cutting small budget lines, these activities will be phased out. Thus the Commission will not make new financing commitments next year. Nevertheless the Commission will do its best to use appropriations for these activities in this year's budget. I have instructed my services to find the most efficient solution in the next few weeks.
Discontinuing support for the information campaign does not, however, mean that the Commission will abandon its other activities to protect children against violence and abuse, notably the STOP programme. The Commission is preparing a proposal to renew the programme later this year and child sex tourism will be one of its concerns.
The Commission is also preparing legislative proposals on the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography in accordance with the conclusions of the Tampere European Council. Proposals will seek to approximate definitions, offences and penalties and the extra-territorial application of Member States' criminal laws on sexual exploitation of children.
In this field Member States have a major responsibility. Nevertheless the Commission will, in close collaboration with the Member States, continue to play an active role in developing and maintaining a coherent European policy to protect children against violence."@en1
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