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EU: Europol given go-ahead by Trevi

01 January 1992

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At their meeting in the Hague on 2-3 December the six-monthly meeting of Trevi ministers responsible for police and security matters decided to establish Europol (European police organisation). The objective of Europol is to provide the centralised exchange and co-ordination of crime-related information between EC member states. This includes the collection and analysis of information on cross-border crime, including crime that extends beyond the area of the EC.

The first element of the initiative was the decision to set up a Europol Drugs Unit which will complement the decision at the Trevi meeting in June to create a European Drugs Intelligence Unit (EDIU).

The ministers agreed on the 1992 Programme of Action in connection with the removal of internal frontiers from 1 January 1993. The measures include a study of the "relationship between Community legislation on telecommunications and possibilities at a national level for judicial interception of telecommunications"; to extend co-operation particularly in areas of environmental crime the development of crime analysis and the combatting of money laundering.

They also agreed on contact points in each country for the maintenance of public order in member states "so that contact can be made at an early stage if specific disturbances of public order acquire an international dimension... The Ministers emphasised in this regard the fundamental right to demonstrate."

Trevi press release December 1991.

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