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Statewatch Submission: Supplementary Agreement between Europol and United States
(Council docs. 13689/02; 13689/02 add 1; and 13996/02) Read More
Statewatch submission to House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union: Revised Proposal on asylum procedures (COM(2002) 326)
1. Statewatch welcomes the chance to comment on this revised version of the proposed directive on asylum procedures. In general, the revision is a highly disappointing attempt to restrict the procedural rights of asylum-seekers which Read More
Statewatch submission to House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union: The EU Charter of Rights
The Charter should become part of the treaties, subject to a number of important clarifications made to its horizontal provisions as regards competence, limitation clauses, and rights other than those based on the EC/EU Treaties and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The European Union should also be granted competence to accede to the ECHR. Read More
Statewatch submission to House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union, Sub-Committee F: Proposals to amend the Europol Convention
ntroduction 1. Statewatch welcomes the opportunity to comment on the recent Danish Presidency proposal for a Protocol to the Europol Convention (EU Council doc. 10307/02, 2.7.02; see also the "correction of errors" in that document, Read More
Proposed Directive on family reunion
Introduction On 3 May 2002 the Commission circulated a revised version of the proposed directive on family reunion (COM (2002) 225). The following analysis summarises the changes from the prior text proposed by the Commission Read More
Statewatch analysis: European Commission: EU Border Control Communication by Steve Peers
The Commission's recent Communication on border control (COM (2002) 233) sets out a number of proposals for developing common control of the EU's external borders. The principal elements in this plan are a 'common unit' of senior border control officials to control the implementation of a common border control policy; further exchange of information between a large number of authorities, including the Schengen Information System, the visa information database, police authorities and Europol; and the development of a Common European Border Corps with powers to check people at the border, deny them entry, board vessels and arrest individuals. Read More
Statewatch Comments for House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union, sub-committee “F”: Commission Communication on Illegal Immigration
[See also annex: Comments on the Green Paper on Return (COM (2002) 175, 10 April 2002) and appendix: Statewatch Briefing on the negotiation of the EU Action Plan on Illegal Immigration] I. Introduction 1. The Read More