Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-01-Speech-1-097"
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"Mr President, I too would like to thank and congratulate the rapporteur. It is a very timely and well-produced report on what, as has already been said, is a very complex and sensitive issue.
Although it is complex it is an issue to which we have to take a practical approach. There have been times in our committee when we have been presented with initiatives from the Member States, where they want us to introduce penalties, but we find ourselves in a situation where we cannot respond as they would like. Bearing that situation in mind, when it comes to the IGC, the Council and Member States will appreciate the good sense of what is being proposed here.
I was also struck by the idea presented to us – at the enlightening hearing with experts when Mr Koukiadis was preparing this report – that the Community should and must have the wherewithal to protect its own property in the widest sense. That is what we are talking about: property in its widest sense.
But there is one point I would like to make and underline. If we are to give the Community power in this area of competence – and we should – then it should also be underpinned by the sort of balance achieved by the Community itself signing up to the European Convention on Human Rights. If we are to have some competence, albeit limited, in the criminal field, this must be balanced by measuring that legislation against something fundamental and basic that guarantees our citizens' human rights."@en1
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