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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission considers this initiative on hooliganism to be an important one and one which, to some extent, illustrates the high level of cooperation already existing in this area. I might even say that this example will be a source of inspiration, which can be applied to other areas. Belgium’s initiative is based on a detailed assessment of the European Football Championships of 2000, which has been supported and financed by the Commission’s OISIN programme and in which the Commission participated. In our opinion, establishing national football information points and their close cooperation could be an effective means of predicting and combating outbreaks of hooliganism in football.
The main objective of the initiative is to enable Member States to exchange information on groups of football team supporters and on their trips to other countries, and even to be able to exchange information on whether these groups should be classified as peaceful or violent. The aim of this exchange of information is above all to help countries organising football matches to prevent potential outbreaks of violence and to guarantee the safety of all true lovers of this sport who wish to attend football matches.
The innovative aspect of this decision is that, in addition to enabling the existing exchange of information to continue, it is legally binding, which means that it is a step towards increasing legal security in the processing of this information. Since this involves the exchange of information on personal data, we must take great care over the way in which this is processed and safeguarded, considering above all that not only the rules of international law in force on the protection of privacy apply to these exchanges of information but that, in the opinion of the Commission, we should also incorporate this exchange of information into a legal instrument that regulates the protection of personal data in all matters pertaining to the third pillar, in other words, in all matters pertaining to judicial cooperation.
I wish to conclude by thanking Mr Deprez for being such a good sport in presenting this report and by giving my special thanks to Mr McCormick for the historical information about the first game of football being played in 1872 between Scotland and England, although I am sorry he did not tell us who won …"@en1
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