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EU: Council of the European Union: documents regarding combating crime 'affecting the financial interests of the Union', cross-border crime, collection of data on radicalisation, cooperation vis-a-vis terrorism

01 April 2010

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EU: Council of the European Union (27 govenments):

- The European Public Prosecutor's Office in the European judicial area (pdf). Council Presidency discussion paper:

"Article 86 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union provides for the possibility of establishing a European Public Prosecutor's Office in order to combat crimes affecting the financial interests of the Union, and also provides in paragraph 4 for the possibility of the European Council, at the same time or subsequently, extending the powers of the European Public Prosecutor's Office to include serious crime having a cross-border dimension."

- Draft Council Conclusions on the use of a standardised, multidimensional semistructured instrument for collecting data and information on the processes of radicalisation in the EU (pdf):

"It is recommended that the Member States take steps to share information on radicalisation and put in place mechanisms to systematically analyse and assess the extent of radicalisation on the basis of a multidisciplinary approach"

- Draft Council conclusions on strengthening cooperation between national bodies or structures responsible for analysis of the terrorist threat (pdf):

"Promote interaction, on a voluntary and informal basis, between the coordination bodies or structures, or nominated as such, through regular meetings of their heads and experts to address matters of common interest, in particular:

- evaluation of the national threat,
- best practices in the field of data integration, and
- training of analysts."

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