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"Mr President, following the events of 11 September there was a real international will to streamline and improve systems of extradition in connection with terrorist crime. Whilst it is true that terrorism may have an environmental impact, for example the release of pathogens or the deliberate poisoning of water, this report goes much further than terrorism.
I agree with Mr Berthu that we must resist attempts to extend the EU's sphere of influence into the judicial area, environmental or otherwise. I am particularly worried about the amendments which talk about extradition or about the surrender or confiscation of profits as first pillar powers. The advice of Parliament's legal services is that there is no legal base under Article 175 for this measure. Why do we pay these lawyers to give us advice and then ignore it?
I am keen to see Member States cooperating to adopt measures under the third pillar to combat environmental crime, for example in common definitions of criminal offences; but the British Conservatives will vote for rejection of this report as amended because it has no legal base. It talks a lot about subsidiarity in the recitals, but the articles themselves fly in the face of the principle of subsidiarity.
The European Union would be better advised to divert its energies to an area where it does have legal powers to bring errant Member States before the European Court of Justice for non-compliance with existing directives, as Mr von Boetticher suggested earlier."@en1
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