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"Mr President, I should like to join my colleagues in congratulating the rapporteur on her work on this report and in endorsing the majority of the proposals within it. Within the European Union a new institutional framework to fight against organised crime has been put in place following the entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam. It provides for the development of common actions in the field of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters while preserving Member State responsibility for maintaining law and order and safeguarding internal securities.
Parallel to this endorsement, the European Council launched two action plans for combating organised crime, aimed at overcoming disparities with national procedures in establishing more efficient judicial cooperation. Most of these recommendations have been fully implemented. The enhanced role of Europol certainly represents a major step forward in this context.
The conclusions of the Tampere Council meeting present a strong political message, reaffirming the Union's wish to overcome difficulties in prosecuting all forms of cross-border crime while protecting the freedoms and legal rights of individuals and economic operators. It is important that all EU institutions work together to ensure a coherent strategy against organised crime. The primary motive of much organised crime is financial crime. The EU policy in the fight against financial fraud is pursued simultaneously under the first and third pillars of the Treaties. I support the extension of the mandate of Europol to investigate money laundering matters. There must be a European-wide political agreement concerning the framework decision on the identification, seizure and confiscation of products of crime. Certainly from an Irish perspective, the establishment of the Criminal Assets Bureau in 1996 has proved to be very successful in tackling this area of crime.
Establishing safety and confidence when we are faced with cyber-crime is another area which calls for a collective response on a global scale, given the world-wide dimension of the Internet. Computer-related crimes do not stop at conventional State borders. It is clear that activities that are unlawful off-line will not cease to be unlawful by going on-line. A considerable number of actions to fight cyber-crime are already under way in international fora. The Council of Europe is putting the finishing touches to the world's first international convention on cyber-crime. The European Commission has also presented a legislative proposal on child pornography on the Internet, in line with the provisions of the Council's European cyber-crime convention.
I support the framework programme being brought forward by the European Commission to combat the traffic in human beings by developing effective cooperation across the European Union in judicial procedures in this regard, and also by establishing closer links with the accession countries."@en1
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