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I am aware of the importance that you attach to this question. As regards the prospect of a European corps of border guards being created, I would draw your attention to the fact that the action plan that was proposed by the Commission and adopted by the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 13 June 2002 provides for cooperation to be gradually stepped up and for joint teams to be gradually put in place to police the external borders, leading, eventually, to the creation of a corps of European border guards. This means that the political decision has not been taken and that the Council has said that this will come later, after cooperative operations have been developed.
What I can say to Mr Posselt is that cooperative operations already started during 2002, both to police internal borders, with a centre for the control of land borders being set up in Germany, and on the southern maritime border, in the Mediterranean, with operations being undertaken jointly by Spain, Italy, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom. All of these specific examples of joint operations were funded by the ARGO programme. The natural development of these centres for border control and the joint operations should raise the question of the formal creation of a border police. But the Council has not set a date. I hope that the need for such a border police will be demonstrated and that the Convention on the Future of Europe will give impetus to this project.
The police academy does exist virtually. We continue to support the idea that it should be a formal institution with a formal headquarters. As you know, this issue is part of the 'agencies' package that is under scrutiny by the European Council. Unfortunately, we do not yet have a response from the Council."@en1
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