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"Mr President, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, over the last seven years we have witnessed the development of tools, such as the European arrest warrant or the transfer of prisoners, which are designed to strengthen mutual confidence between the national judicial authorities and the development of a policy leading to the convergence of criminal law.
Now we are approving the Commission decision to establish a new system, on the basis of which the Member States will be able to take account, in criminal proceedings, of previous convictions against the same person handed down in another Member State of the European Union. Previous convictions handed down in other Member States will have the same force as those handed down in the Member State in which the new criminal proceedings are to be instituted. I should like to add something else to the other arguments about the need for the measure expounded by Mr Demetriou: that this is absolutely logical, because previous convictions shape the personality of the offender and play a role in assessing the punishment.
To close, I should like to congratulate the rapporteur, who succeeded, with his amendments, in reconciling the views of the Council and the Commission, which differed considerably on certain basic points. Finally, I hope that the statement by the Finnish Presidency will not remain a statement, but will start to be put into practice. We need to take faster steps to unify criminal law."@en1
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