House of Lords - European Union - Tenth Report

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European Union - Tenth Report

Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 15 March 2005.

CONTENTS

Terms of Reference

Abstract
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Hague Programme—General Characteristics

Legitimacy
Consolidation and implementation
Relationship with the Constitutional Treaty
Vision or pragmatism?

Chapter 3: Fundamental Rights
Freedom versus security?
The Fundamental Rights Agency

Chapter 4: Asylum

A Common European Asylum System
A European Asylum Office
Extra-territorial processing

Chapter 5: Migration
Chapter 6: Border Controls and The European Border Agency
Chapter 7: Police Co-operation and the role of Europol
Chapter 8: Criminal Law

Approximation or mutual recognition?
The protection of the rights of the defendant
Judicial co-operation in criminal matters and the role of Eurojust (and the European Public Prosecutor)
Mutual trust and the judiciary
Evaluation
Judicial protection in the ECJ

Chapter 9: Civil Law

Mutual recognition or approximation?
The limits of EU competence
Subsidiarity
Family law
Quality of EU legislation
Relationship with international instruments

Chapter 10: External Relations
Chapter 11: Conclusions and Recommendations

Scrutiny
General principles
Freedom and security
The Fundamental Rights Agency
Asylum—minimum standards
A European Asylum Office
Asylumextraterritorial processing
Migration
Border security
The European Border Agency
Police co-operation and the role of Europol
Criminal law - approximation and mutual recognition
The rights of the defendant
Eurojust and the European Public Prosecutor
Mutual trust and the judiciary
Evaluation
Judicial protection in the ECJ
Civil law - justification, competence and subsidiarity
Family law
Quality of legislation in the civil law field - a common frame for contract
Civil law - relationship with international instruments
External relations - migration and asylum
External relations - criminal law
Recommendation for debate

Appendix 1: Sub-Committee F (Home Affairs)
Appendix 2: Call for Evidence
Appendix 3: List of Witnesses
Appendix 4: Glossary of Acronyms
Appendix 5: Exchange of correspondence between the Chairman of the EU Select Committee and Caroline Flint, MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office
Appendix 6: Other recent Reports from the Select Committee

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
Wednesday 26 January 2005
Wednesday 9 February 2005
Written evidence

ORAL EVIDENCE

Home Office, Caroline Flint, MP,
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Written evidence (printed as Appendix 5)    52
Oral evidence (26 January 2005)    1

Department for Constitutional Affairs,
Baroness Ashton of Upholland,
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Written evidence    13
Oral evidence (9 February 2005)    14

WRITTEN EVIDENCE

Amnesty International    23
Association of Chief Police Officers (Scotland) (ACPOS)    25
European Commission, Directorate General of Justice, Freedom and Security    26
Europol    26
Professor Elspeth Guild    27
International Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA)    29
JUSTICE    39
Law Society    45
National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS)    50
Dr Constantin Stefanou, Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London)    51
United National High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)    53
Dr. Helen Xanthaki, Academic Director, Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS),
University of London    54

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 refers to a page of written evidence

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