European Union - Thirty-Seventh Report

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 5 November 2002.

CONTENTS

REPORT

SUMMARY

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

The context of the inquiry

The Committee's approach

PART 2: THE NATURE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Reasons for migrating

Definition of illegal immigration

Scale of the problem

Economic effects

Illegal immigration as a security issue

Future trends

Assessment

PART 3: THE COMMISSION COMMUNICATION — GENERAL PRINCIPLES

The Commission's proposals

A common policy

Box 1: The Red Cross Centre at Sangatte

The United Kingdom's position

A comprehensive approach

PART 4: COMMISSION COMMUNICATION—SPECIFIC PROPOSALS

Visa policy
Common visa list

Joint visa issuing posts

Infrastructure for information exchange, co-operation and co-ordination

Border management

Police co-operation

Europol

Police action in the United Kingdom

Schengen Information System

Aliens law and criminal law

Carriers' liability and employer sanctions

"Regularisations"

Return and readmission policy and the external dimension

PART 5: SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Recommendation

Appendix 1: Minutes of Proceedings on the Report

Appendix 2: Sub-Committee F (Social Affairs, Education and Home Affairs)

Appendix 3: List of witnesses

Appendix 4: Call for evidence

Appendix 5: Note of Visit to Calais and Sangatte—Tuesday 25 June 2002

Appendix 6: Summary of Sangatte Research

ORAL EVIDENCE
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 24 April 2002
Supplementary written evidence
National Criminal Intelligence Service and National Crime Squad
Oral evidence, 24 April 2002
Statewatch
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 1 May 2002
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 1 May 2002
Dr Ferruccio Pastore
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 15 May 2002
Professor Elspeth Guild
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 22 May 2002
Dr Andrew Geddes
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 22 May 2002
European Commission
Oral evidence, 27 May 2002
Supplementary written evidence
Eurojust
Oral evidence, 28 May 2002
European Institute for Law Enforcement Co-operation (EULEC)
Oral evidence, 28 May 2002
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Oral evidence, 28 May 2002
Home Office
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 19 June 2002
Dr Gerold Lehnguth, German Ministry of the Interior
Oral evidence, 3 July 2002
Europol
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 10 July 2002

WRITTEN EVIDENCE
Anti-Slavery International
Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)
Dr David Coleman, University of Oxford
Department for International Development (DFID)
Immigration Advisory Service
Immigration Law Practitioners' Association
Migration Watch UK
Matloob Piracha and Professor Roger Vickerman, Department of Economics, University of Kent
Rail Freight Group
Dr Giuseppe Sciortino

NOTE:  Pages of the report are numbered in bold type; pages of evidence are numbered in ordinary type. References in the text of the report are as follows:
(Q)  refers to a question in oral evidence
(p)  refer to a page of written evidence.

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