Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-27-Speech-4-052"
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"Mr President, the first point I would like to make with regard to combating fraud is that there is one problem that requires urgent attention. There is currently no legal institution competent to carry out enquiries within the Community bodies, due to the latters’ privileged status. If any task can be justified for a European Prosecutor, it is this, first and foremost. Apart from that, with regard to the possible future creation of a supranational body responsible for conducting inquiries and taking public action against the Member States in the event of violations damaging the financial interests of the Community, we feel that the proposed operation has more disadvantages than advantages. Naturally, variations in national legal areas can, in some cases, hinder the prosecution process. The purpose of Eurojust, however, is to remedy this problem while respecting national competence. We must first allow it to act and develop before judging its effectiveness.
The supranational European Prosecutor proposed by the Commission, meanwhile, would lead us into an administrative black hole, since not only would we have to harmonise charges, penalties, restrictions and all kinds of procedures, such as acceptability of evidence, but we would also have to consider the issue of protecting individual freedom for all coercive acts required by the European Prosecutor: searches, seizures, telephone tapping, arrest warrants, judicial reviews and pre-trial detention, not to mention, of course, the vast issue of the democratic control that would need to be established. This is a huge issue, Mr President, and I strongly encourage my fellow Members to choose Eurojust instead, as this could achieve the same results without the problems of destabilisation."@en1
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