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Establishing the European Agency for the Management of Operational Co-operation at the External Borders, which is expected to take up its responsibilities on 1 January 2005, arose out of the overwhelming need to improve the management of controls at the external borders which, it should be noted, now total 6 000 km in length. Account must also be taken of the European Union’s enlargement.
I disagree with the rapporteur’s view that the Agency should have a ‘more Communitarian’ character, but I did agree with the position expressed by the draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, to the effect that the intergovernmental nature of border control should be maintained. This is in fact the line adopted in the Commission communication – without prejudice to a system of majority voting in the Agency (for operational reasons). On the one hand, this is a result of the Community legal system itself – and of the current division of powers – but, on the other, today offers better safeguards for the experience acquired by each Member State in performing these tasks (whether at air, sea or land borders or at all three). It therefore appears to make sense that the Management Board should be composed of one Member from each Member State, assisted by two representatives of the Commission. Consequently, I voted against the report."@en1
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