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I should like to point out to the honourable Member that, as I said, the jurisdiction and responsibility for such matters lies in principle with the Member States. There is criminal law and there are all the forms of the law which of course relate to the matter and must be applied. If they are not applied, then there are international and European bodies for filing charges against the Member States.
At European Union level, as I mentioned, certain arrangements have been promoted which can be used to deal with such situations, but the directive I referred to would not have been of any use in connection with the incident to which the honourable Member referred. These are completely different situations. I believe that the facility for the European Union to intervene in such matters, regardless of anyone's and/or the Council's personal preferences, tendencies or wishes, is laid down in the Union Treaties and we must look to them to see what is allowed and, if there is some such facility – and I am not in a position at the moment to say that there is and I do not see where it would derive from – it could be used. This is one more reason for saying that the review now being carried out in the Convention, human rights and a whole series of similar matters must be finalised and studied at Union level."@en1
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