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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office, Mr Frattini, ladies and gentlemen, increasing security and fighting cross-border international crime and terrorism entails not only strengthening our common external borders but also rapid and efficient exchange of information regarding border controls and judicial cooperation.
Establishing closer police and judicial cooperation on criminal matters and setting up a visa information system (VIS) are similarly important. I therefore support the reports presented to us by Mr Correia, Baroness Ludford and Mrs Roure, and special mention goes to Baroness Ludford for finally achieving an agreement after two and a half years of negotiations.
The proposal to step up cross-border cooperation includes some of the main provisions of the Prüm Treaty, in particular as regards the fight against terrorism, cross-border crime and illegal migration, whereby the most substantive requirements of the Hague Programme can be fulfilled. It also contains some improvements on the exchange of information and on the provision of personal data, the protection of which is a fundamental right.
I welcome the proposal and support Mr Correia’s view that this initiative should take the form of a framework decision, given that its objective is to bring together the Member States’ laws and regulations. On the other hand, the VIS should be the third major system supported on computer technology to be created as part of the area of freedom, security and justice.
I welcome the fact that agreement has finally been reached, in such a way that we can press ahead with setting up such a vital system, which will improve the administration of the common visa system, consular cooperation and consultation between the central consular authorities, will help prevent threats to internal security and visa shopping, will facilitate the fight against fraud and checks at the external border posts and in the territory of the Member States and, lastly, will contribute towards identifying and returning – I stress the word ‘returning’ – illegal immigrants, thus facilitating the implementation of the Dublin II Regulation."@en1
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