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In a recent contribution to the EU Convention EuroCOP introduces a police
professional view into the ongoing debate about the future shape of the EU's
activities in the area of Justice and Home Affairs.
Despite of the great progress already made in the Convention, some issues
that are of vital importance, not only for police officers but for the development
of an area of freedom justice and security in general, remain uncovered by the
work that has been done in the convention. This was the main conclusion from a
meeting between Member of the European Convention, Ben Fayot, and the EuroCOP
Committee in December 2002.
In addition, some important achievements of the Working Groups have been
questioned again lately. A good example for this is the question of judicial
control in the Justice and Home Affairs area: While the Convention's Working
Group on Justice and Home Affairs had strongly argued in favour of complete
judicial control the plenary debate showed that a significant number of member
states are not willing to follow their arguments.
The Contribution
- calls for greater transparency and accountability in the
Area of Justice and Home Affairs,
- strongly supports the introduction of judicial control through the
European Court of Justice,
- urges a clear definition of the scope of and legal framework for community
action with respect to police cooperation,
- demands the introduction of a social dialogue with police unions and
staff organisations on the European level,
- argues for a supplementation of the EU's currently purely competition
based approach towards the private security sector by a clear statement of
the role of the police as the sole provider of public security in the treaties.
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