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"Madam President, Mrs Harkin, as you know, the Treaty of Lisbon changes the legal bases for European law – for regulations and directives – because it brings together in the Community pillar what was previously three different pillars: the Community pillar, foreign and security policy, and justice and home affairs.
These things have been brought together in a single pillar and a single legal personality, and this means that the normal, traditional Community method is being introduced for foreign policy and for the more specific area of judicial affairs – judicial cooperation on civil and criminal matters – and for police cooperation. This means the Commission and also Parliament having a greater presence at the Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
In the area of cooperation in criminal matters, there is a possibility that still remains, which is that a quarter of European Union governments can take initiatives in this area. This is what happened with the directive on gender violence: Twelve governments have presented an initiative on which the Council and Parliament will have to adopt a final decision, because it is an ordinary legislative procedure matter.
This directive is already being prepared and is in response to the possibility established by the treaty for governments to take this initiative, and which, in our view, has a correct, adequate legal basis, because it concerns judicial cooperation on criminal matters.
We are talking about crimes involving ill treatment, violence against a person, something which is a crime in all the countries of the Union. This is therefore about protecting the victims of that crime. Its legal basis is in cooperation on criminal matters, and we understand that it is therefore perfectly possible – as the legal services of the Council have said – for it to be implemented through this legal text, which will have to be examined and debated in this House.
I hope that this will happen quickly, because I believe that it is what millions of women, and also men, in the European Union are waiting for. They are waiting for this protection, which – as you rightly said – now needs to come out from behind closed doors, not only at national level but also at European level. It needs to become part of the European agenda. This is the aim of the initiative presented by 12 European Union governments."@en1
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