Activites

• 2002/03/06 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 2002/187
  • OJ L 063 06.03.2002, p. 0001-0013
• #2411
• 2002/02/28 Council Meeting
• 2002/02/28 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2002/02/28 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• #2396
• 2001/12/06 Council Meeting
• 2001/11/29 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0635/2001 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the report by Mrs Evelyne GEBHARDT (PES, D) on the draft Council decision setting up Eurojust with a view to reinforcing the fight against serious organised crime. (Please refer to the previous text). �

• 2001/11/28 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2001/11/13 Committee report tabled for plenary, reconsultation
  • A5-0398/2001
• 2001/11/13 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2001/10/23 Formal reconsultation of Parliament
• 2001/10/19 Amended legislative proposal for reconsultation published
  • 12727/1/2001 summary

    The Council produced a draft Decision on Eurojust taking into account the Opinion of the European Parliament. This draft includes environmental crime as part of the general competence of Eurojust. It also provides that Eurojust shall maintain close co-operation with OLAF. To that end, OLAF may contribute to Eurojust's work on the initiative of either organisation. Eurojust acting as a College has the power to set up a joint investigation team in keeping with the relevant cooperation instruments. Eurojust's tasks are separated into two categories: those which are undertaken through one or more of the national members, or as a College. The length of a national member's term of office is to be determined by the Member State of origin; it must allow Eurojust to operate properly. The College shall consist of all the national members. Each Member State may appoint one or more national correspondent. It shall be a matter of high priority to appoint such a correspondent for terrorism matters. The College will elect a President from among the national members, and may, if it considers it necessary, elect at most two Vice-Presidents. The term of office of the President will be three years, and he may be re-elected once. The term for any Vice-President will be governed by the rules of procedure.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/justice/', 'title': 'Justice'}],
• #2370
• 2001/09/27 Council Meeting
  • 2370 summary

    The Council has reached a political agreement on Articles 1 to 8 of the draft decision establishing Eurojust. These articles constitute the basis of Eurojust and determine in particular its composition, its objectives and the scope of its competence and its tasks. This agreement should enable progress to be carried out in a decisive manner in view of reaching an agreement on the whole decision on the occasion of the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 6/7 December 2001, in accordance with the calendar drawn up by the European Council in Tampere. �

• 2001/05/17 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
  • T5-0272/2001 summary

    The European Parliament approved the report by Mrs Evelyne GEBHARDT (PES, D) relating to the initiative to support judicial cooperation in criminal matters with non-binding amendments. Although in March this year the Provisional Judicial Cooperation Unit began work, Parliament has always seen this as a first step towards the setting up of Eurojust. Moreover, the Parliament wants Eurojust to be also competent in combating environmental crime and to be able to launch joint investigation groups. Eurojust should receive information from criminal records from Member States, it should have access to the Schengen information system and should be able to ask for information from the Commission's anti-fraud Unit OLAF. It should moreover contribute to the mutual recognition of court judgements in the field of criminal law. With regard to the organisation of Eurojust, each national member shall be appointed for a period of four years and the President shall be elected by Eurojust and the two Vice-Presidents from among its members, for a term of two years. Their mandate shall be renewable. The objectives assigned to Eurojust shall be: - to stimulate and improve the coordination of investigations and prosecutions between Member States, taking account of requests and information from the national authorities and the competent bodies; - to improve cooperation between the competent national authories particularly by encouraging the use of modern techniques for judicial assistance and the acceleration of procedures for the execution of letters rogatory and for the mutual recognition of judicial decisions in criminal matters; - to otherwise support the competent authorities of the Member States in order to improve the effectiveness of their investigations and prosecutions.�

• 2001/04/25 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0153/2001
• #2314
• 2000/11/30 Council Meeting
  • 2314
• 2000/07/20 Legislative proposal published
  • 10357/2000 summary

    PURPOSE : To establish a judicial coordination unit known as "Eurojust". CONTENT : This is an initiative of Portugal, France, Sweden and Belgium, based on the conclusions of the Tampere European Council in October 1999 and on the urgent need to improve judicial cooperation between Member States in combating forms of serious crime often perpetrated by transnational organisations. These include, terrorism, trafficking in human beings, computer crime, forgery, and money laundering. Eurojust will be composed of one national member per Member State, who will be a prosecutor, magistrate or police officer of equivalent competence. Each State may appoint one or more national correspondent to Eurojust. Intervention by Eurojust will take place when a case affects several Member States and when it requires coordinated action. In addition, Eurojust also has the general task of facilitating coordination between the investigating and prosecuting bodies. it is a coordination and cooperation body based on consensus for the purposes of prosecutions and investigations. The main tasks of the organisation are: -to facilitate the proper coordination of national prosecuting authorities; -to support criminal investigations in organised crime cases, on the basis, in particular, of Europol analysis; -to cooperate closely with the European Judicial Network; -to simplify the execution of letters rogatory.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/justice/', 'title': 'Justice'}],
• 2000/07/03 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: 10357/2000
• Debate in Council: 2314
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0153/2001
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0272/2001
• Debate in Council: 2370
• Amended legislative proposal for reconsultation published: 12727/1/2001
• Committee report tabled for plenary, reconsultation: A5-0398/2001
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0635/2001
• : Decision 2002/187
• : OJ L 063 06.03.2002, p. 0001-0013

History

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