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"The Presidency agrees that improving cross-border cooperation for the purposes of law enforcement is not only an important and pressing question, but also a challenge.
The Council draft decision on the stepping up of cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime – the well known ‘Prüm’ Decision – on which the Council reached political agreement in June 2007, represents considerable progress on the implementation of the principle of availability and the strengthening of cross-border police cooperation, in particular by means of joint operations and the provision of assistance for mass events, disasters and serious accidents.
The Presidency is of the opinion that the ‘Prüm’ Decision should be implemented as soon as possible, in order to enable tangible results to be achieved. The Presidency is therefore intending to concentrate its efforts on seeing that progress is made in the next few months on the Council draft decision implementing the ‘Prüm’ Decision.
The Presidency agrees with the honourable Member that not all the points in the two Commission proposals – one on improving police cooperation and the other on the principle of availability – are included in the ‘Prüm’ Decision. However, a considerable part of the Commission proposal on police cooperation is covered by the ‘Prüm’ Decision and the Presidency has no reason to think that reopening the debate on the other parts would lead to a different result from the one achieved in April 2006.
Whereas the Commission proposal on the principle of availability lays down general principles and covers six types of data, the ‘Prüm’ Decision in fact deals only with DNA data, fingerprints and vehicle registration data. The Presidency believes that phased implementation of the principle of availability is the most realistic and practical and is also among the approaches most likely to yield practical results in the short term for day-to-day police cooperation and improving security for EU citizens.
The Presidency believes that those practical results would send a strong signal regarding the importance and urgency attached to cross-border cooperation, thus demonstrating that practical cooperation is possible and is being implemented, even if only partially. That does not mean that we do not need to continue efforts to achieve even closer cooperation on law enforcement, in particular by means of the elements contained in the Commission proposals.
It is hoped, however, that this can be done on the basis of the results obtained to date as well as those resulting from implementing the ‘Prüm’ Decision."@en1
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