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"Mr President, the world’s largest common legal area is on the way to becoming a reality. It must be founded upon common values and have broad political support.
The proposal to set up an initial provisional Eurojust unit is largely to be welcomed. In this way, the Council has taken a first step towards institutionalising the process of judicial cooperation, something which the Group of the European People’s Party and European Democrats has been demanding for a long time. It is essential, if the rule of law is to be upheld, for judicial cooperation in criminal matters to be developed in line with the competences of Europol. By strengthening the fight against serious organised crime, Eurojust is therefore a logical step in the efforts to provide citizens with a high level of safety within an area of freedom, security and justice.
The provisional unit’s main tasks ought to be that of ensuring better coordination between the national prosecution authorities and that of supporting criminal investigations in cases involving organised crime. In view of the proposed unit’s remit, there must be close and clearly regulated cooperation with Europol in order to avoid duplication of effort and conflicts over the respective responsibilities of those involved. Setting up the provisional unit is only a first step. The rapporteur appreciates that setting up the second stage Eurojust ought to be that much easier in the light of the experience gained, which is a view I share.
Moving subsequently towards setting up a European public prosecution authority is another question to discuss. I see the role of a future European public prosecutor as being precisely and solely that of combating fraud affecting the EU’s financial interests. In view of the subsidiarity principle, I am therefore opposed to a common catalogue of criminal law and to the EU as a common judicial body in all criminal law – if anyone should happen to see any such development as being of topical relevance right now.
What Parliament has to adopt a position on today is vigorous judicial cooperation for the purpose of combating serious organised crime. This is a positive development, and it is therefore gratifying that there should be so much support for it in Parliament. I am particularly pleased about the initiative to strengthen the protection of personal data. I would congratulate Mrs Gebhardt on a good piece of work.
I want to conclude by pointing out something I think we ought not to forget. Without a certain degree of cooperation, it is simply not possible for us to uphold a law-governed society in an EU with freedom of movement. If we wish to see crime combated more efficiently, then we must also strengthen the protection of human rights, something which must be founded upon our common legal principles."@en1
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