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1. See for full background Statewatch's: Observatory on protests in the EU: http://www.statewatch.org/observatory3.htm
2. Conclusions on security at meetings of the European Council and comparable events: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2008/apr/eu-troublemakers-10916-01.pdf
3. See: Genoa 19-21 July 2001: An Italian view of "public order policing" Italian style: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2002/jul/08genoa.htm
4. Italy: Making sense of the Genoa G8 trials and aftermath (Statewatch analysis): http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-77-genoa-aftermath.pdf
See also: EU plans to extend the Schengen Information System: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/nov/19sis2.htm and
The Enemy Within: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/nov/enemyII.pdf
5. Gothenburg: Public order policing in Europe - policy backlash expected:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/jun/publicorder.htm
6. See Statewatch analysis: The Enemy Within: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/aug/protest.pdf
Later in the autumn of 2001 the German government put forward a Proposal to create EU para-military police units to counter protests: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/oct/01paramilitary.htm
8.EU doc no: 15079/07:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/nov/eu-art-36-public-order.pdf
9. Schengen Information System Article 99 report:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2008/feb/08SISart99.htm
10. EU doc 7544/08:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2008/apr/eu-troublemakers-7544-08.pdf
11. EU doc no: 10916/01: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2008/apr/eu-troublemakers-10916-01.pdf
12. EU doc no: 9808/03: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2008/apr/eu-troublemakers-sis-ii-9808-03.pdf
13. EU doc no: 13815/03: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2008/apr/eu-troublemakers-council-resolution-13915-03.pdf
14. EU doc no: 8204/08: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2008/apr/eu-troublemakers-8204-08.pdf
15. Heiligendamm G8 Summit: a chronology of protest and repression (Statewatch report): http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/nov/g8.pdf
16. EU doc no: 9535/08
17. EU doc no: 15934/08
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19. See: Statewatch feature: Vol 19 no 1
20. EU doc no 5450/09
22. This proposal was set out in an unlisted Room document: 2008-12-19/03.
23. EU doc no: 6009/09
24. EU doc no: 5450/1/09
25. EU doc no: 7423/09
26. EU doc no: 11176/09
27. EU doc no; 7557/09
28. EU doc no: 16613/1/08
29. EU doc no: 7558/09, 7558/09 REV1 and 7558/REV2
30. EU doc no: 7558/09. Standard Article 99 alerts include a recommendation, for the state getting a "hit" on the SIS, of "action to be taken".
31. Sky News: Tensions Rise At Nato Summit In Strasbourg, 4 April 2009.
32. Normally a "hit" is followed by a request for a detailed file from the originating state's SIRENE bureaux and "the subject of the alert must not be informed (or even notice) that he/she is in SIS."
33.EU doc no: 10147/09
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