Home Affairs - Third Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 24 May 2007.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
Our approach in the inquiry
2 Context
The Challenges Posed by Crime and Migration
Crime across the EU
Cross-border crime and terrorism
Legal migration
Illegal migration
JHA Issues in the EU—The Institutional Landscape
The European Union institutions
Treaty arrangements for Justice and Home Affairs
What the pillar structure means
The special position of the UK
Alleged difficulties with the pillars
What difference would the Constitutional Treaty have made?
The current picture
Justice and Home Affairs spans national borders
European priorities—the Hague Programme
Approaches to European co-operation
Beyond the Hague Programme
A timely inquiry
3 The effectiveness of European action in particular fields
Police co-operation across the EU
UK input into co-operation: is SOCA sufficient?
Bilateral arrangements
Europol
The Schengen Convention and Article 96 data
Addressing deficiencies in data exchange
Exchange of criminal records
Pilot project on interoperability of criminal records
The principle of availability
The Prüm Treaty
Criminal Justice: Judicial Co-operation
The goal: an area of freedom, security and justice
Eurojust
Mutual recognition instruments
The European Arrest Warrant
The scope for further mutual recognition measures
Harmonisation
EU procedural rights
Is action needed?
The Framework Decision
Borders and migration
Migration
Illegal migration—Commission priorities
Borders
Frontex
Schengen 'pick and mix'—is the UK position tenable?
Safeguarding data
Sharing data to fight crime effectively
Inside the EU—the need for better protection
Existing provisions in the third pillar
The draft Data Protection Framework Decision (DPFD)
Data sharing between the EU and third countries
4 Institutional Questions
The debate about third-pillar decision-making
Reasons for the problems
Is QMV the answer?
Future options for JHA decision-making
Institutional changes: conclusions
5 Parliamentary scrutiny: serving the UK interest
Conclusions and recommendations
Annex: Terms of Reference of the inquiry as agreed by the Committee on 31 October 2006
Formal minutes
List of witnesses
List of written evidence
List of unprinted written evidence
Reports from the Home Affairs Committee
List of Oral Evidence
Tuesday 21 November 2006
Tuesday 28 November 2006
Tuesday 9 January 2007
Tuesday 23 January 2007
Tuesday 20 February 2007
Written evidence
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