Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-11-18-Speech-4-070"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Eurodac2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991118.5.4-070"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-18-Speech-4-0712
lpv:speaker	lp:Frank Vanhecke2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; TGI (1999-07-22--2001-10-02)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Vlaams Blok (1999-07-20--2003-06-04)3,3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in my own small country alone, we will have between 35,000 and 40,000 alleged asylum seekers this year, in addition to tens of thousands of asylum seekers of the past few of years who are still waiting for their cases to be resolved, and on top of this, there are an estimated 150,000 illegal immigrants, which means that the problem which we are focusing on today can hardly be overestimated. We therefore give our full support to the Eurodac database for fingerprinting being set up. We will gladly approve the Pirker report and I would ask the rapporteur to consider the criticism that follows as minor criticism of an otherwise sound report which represents a good step in the right direction. After all, it must be clear that the Eurodac database should not just serve the purpose of establishing which Member State might deal with a particular asylum seeker’s case, but rather it should make it more difficult or impossible to abuse the asylum system in the future. I therefore regret that Parliament has further mitigated the already weakened and moderate Council proposals in its various amendments. It is completely beyond me why both the Council and Parliament are still a great deal laxer on illegal immigrants than on alleged asylum seekers. After all, the fingerprints of illegal immigrants may not be kept ten but two years, may not be compared with each other – one wonders why – and may only be used for comparison with new asylum applications within the two-year period. I fear that this illustrates that, according to some, the Eurodac system should serve, perhaps not exclusively but largely, at any rate, to assign a particular Member State the responsibility of footing the bill for a certain level of illegal immigration and abuse of the asylum system, rather than to render such abuses completely impossible. Finally, I would put a big question mark over the fact that it appears that some sort of office of the European Commission will manage the system. In my opinion, it should be assigned to a European police body such as Europol."@en1

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