Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-22-Speech-1-077"
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"Mr President, I congratulate Mr von Boetticher. I am speaking on the European judicial area in civil matters. When the Treaty of Amsterdam entered into force, judicial cooperation in civil matters was transferred from the third pillar to the first, since when the European Community has elaborated an ambitious work programme in that area. A detailed examination of the GROTIUS programme led to the conclusion that a new, more general, framework for activities in this field was needed. The new framework regulation makes it possible to continue the projects already financed by the GROTIUS programme.
I thoroughly welcome this draft regulation by the Commission, which is intended to create a legal basis for the financing of judicial cooperation in civil matters by the EU Budget. For the first time, the framework regulation also makes possible financial support for European non-governmental organisations, provided that these function on a non-profit basis and that their objectives serve to promote judicial cooperation.
It is greatly to be welcomed that acceding countries and third countries are able to participate in all these activities. The limitation, proposed by the rapporteur and adopted by the Committee, to one-third of the involved Member States, is realistic and far-sighted, especially against the backdrop of the imminent enlargement up to 2006. This regulation does not apply in Denmark, Ireland or the United Kingdom. Legal practitioners in these countries can, however, participate in the projects alongside their counterparts from the acceding countries and elsewhere.
The concept of 'legal advisers' in this regulation has a quite different background from that in the directive on money laundering. For that reason definition by means of a concluding list, as proposed by the rapporteur, would in this case inhibit the flexible use of this regulation in the future and limit its scope. This is true, in particular, because it is difficult to translate correctly into all the Community languages without giving the terms for the relevant legal profession a different meaning, especially since individual Member States might in the future add other types of legal practitioner, who would then be barred from participation. I would therefore prefer it if there were no list of these occupations."@en1
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