Activites

• 1999/06/09 Final act published in Official Journal
• 1999/05/27 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1999/05/27 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 1999/03/23 Debate in Parliament
  • T4-0216/1999 summary

    The Parliament approved the draft joint action on combating international crime subject to some amendments. The Rapporteur was Sir Jack Stewart-Clark (EPP, UK). Article 2 of the draft is strengthened to ensure maximum effective results in the form of tracking down criminals and their organisations, the subsequent bringing of them to justice and to coordinate joint law enforcement action. The provision of personal data shall be governed by national law, by the 1981 Council of Europe Convention on the protection of data, and by international conventions.�

• 1999/03/15 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0110/1999
• 1999/02/08 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1998/12/17 Legislative proposal published
  • 14060/1998 summary

    OBJECTIVE: to combat the spread of international crime along transport routes. CONTENT: in order to continue to improve operational cooperation between the police forces of the Member States, this draft joint action, based on Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union, proposes a series of measures aimed at organising joint operations to combat the spread of international crime along transport routes (e.g. by road, rail or air). This concerns operations in several (or all) Member States at once, involving a heavy deployment of police forces which concentrate their intervention on a form of crime linked to a transport route and proceed by means of heavy surveillance and research, targeting the route in question. The aim of these concerted operations is to achieve maximum police success, mainly through questioning, to iron out the coordination of joint police interventions and the functioning of communications and to gather new information on criminal behaviour and operations. EUROPOL will be directly involved in the implementation of actions resulting from the draft joint action. Once the pilot phase of this project has been concluded, an assessment of the experience gained will be conducted with a view to improving the strategy for transport routes. The Member States, in cooperation with EUROPOL, will in particular study the conclusions to be drawn from the elimination of the Union?s internal borders (and the subsequent elimination of checks on people at those borders) in light of the fact that the police authorities no longer have the same means as before of intervening at one of the main strategic lines of defence against international crime.�

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: 14060/1998
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0110/1999
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0216/1999

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)