Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-11-17-Speech-5-023"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Provisional establishment of the European Police College (EPC)2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001117.3.5-023"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-17-Speech-5-0242
lpv:speaker	lp:Carlos Coelho2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-11--2001-09-05)3 unknown; Partido Social Democrata (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I wish to congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Posselt, on the excellent work he has carried out on this initiative for the provisional creation of the European Police College. This is a cause to which he has demonstrated his ongoing and productive commitment. We have before us a very useful instrument which will allow us not only to optimise police cooperation between Member States but also to improve cooperation with candidate countries and with Norway and Iceland. This police cooperation is crucial if we are to achieve the very important objective of affording European citizens a high degree of security within the European area of freedom, security and justice. The intention of the Portuguese Presidency in presenting this initiative, following the Tampere conclusions and in order to meet the deadlines laid down in the ‘scoreboard’, was to initiate the preliminary stage of the European Police College by creating a network of the national institutes already existent in each Member State in order to improve the training of senior police officers. In so doing, we are beginning to train the next generation of police officers to work and operate throughout Europe; in other words, we will be preparing them to implement Community law and joint and Community actions. This will be a kind of virtual police academy, whose task will be to improve mutual familiarity with the Member States’ national police systems and structures, to increase familiarity with international instruments and to optimise cooperation and coordination between the College and the other European multinational police training institutes. We have no doubt that it will be easier to reach consensus at this first stage. The transition to the second stage, that is, the institutional and physical creation of the future European Police College, is bound to raise some problems. We know that there are still a number of Member States that support the creation of the College only as a permanent network of national institutes, but we feel that the majority will accept this proposal as a temporary stage that will make it possible to create a tangible institution within a maximum of three years. This is also the proposal that the Commission supports, which has been so vigorously advocated by Commissioner Vitorino. This is also the position advocated by the rapporteur, and it is shared by the European People’s Party. The rapporteur goes even further, proposing that the deadline should be brought forward to two years; as soon as the proposed objectives can be achieved, it would certainly be in the common interest to be able to relax the deadlines in order to give substance to the area of freedom, security and justice."@en1

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