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"Mr President, before replying to the question, I would like to offer you my congratulations and those of the Commission on your appointment as your country’s Minister of the Interior, which will enable you to have even more regular and fruitful dealings with me in the future.
To the Commission's knowledge, the publication of a list of the Union's ten most wanted criminals has not yet been discussed at EU level. Currently, the Schengen Information System – SIS – enables designated law enforcement authorities of 13 Member States, plus Norway and Iceland, to have access to wanted persons alerts by means of an automated search procedure. These alerts and accompanying supplementary information are used for the transmission of European arrest warrants between Member States. For this purpose the Customs Information System will soon also be available to designated law enforcement authorities of the United Kingdom and Ireland and, after the second generation of the CIS has become operational, to the ten Member States that joined Europe in 2004.
The SIS-CIS can be searched by police officers of all the countries taking part in the implementation of the Schengen
. Introduction of an alert for a wanted person in SIS is under the responsibility of participating countries whose authorities issued the arrest warrant. It is up to the issuing countries to decide whether they deem the wider dissemination of information on a wanted person, for example via publication on the Interpol website, is of added value.
With regard to the possible involvement of Europol, it should be noted that the mandate and role of Europol, based on the unique legal framework of the Europol Convention, is totally different. Europol, as the central law enforcement authority in the European Union, is founded on the principle of sharing and analysing information and intelligence, especially in the investigation or intelligence phase prior to measures such as the issue of an arrest warrant for a criminal or a house search on a warrant from judicial authorities at a later stage. At Europol, Member States compile information and intelligence on file to assess top criminals, groups and organisations and coordinate subsequent joint action on the monitoring and targeting of suspected criminals by the law enforcement authorities. An arrest warrant issued by the judicial authorities is therefore normally one of the final elements in the intelligence process that the law enforcement agencies carry out in advance.
The Commission would be willing to discuss with the new Member States whether there is a need to improve the instruments at EU level for searching for persons wanted for serious criminal offences with a cross-border dimension. At the moment, the general public cannot access alerts for a wanted person in the Schengen Information System, because SIS is only accessible to the designated law enforcement authorities of the Schengen contracting parties, due to the sensitivity of the data involved and data protection regulations.
In my view, the most appropriate forum for discussing this question with the new Member States and Europol is probably the European Chiefs of Police Task Force, which meets roughly every three months. The first meeting in 2005 took place in February, so the Commission would therefore be in a position to provide a final reply in the second half of 2005."@en1
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