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Mr President, as Parliament, and Mr Posselt especially, knows, for the Member States party to Title IV of the Treaty establishing the European Community, the principles relating to controls and surveillance of external borders of the European Union are governed by Community law, in accordance with the Protocol implementing the Schengen acquis in the European Union, as drawn up by the Treaty of Amsterdam.
In my view and in the Commission’s view, there are now several reasons for considering the creation of a European corps of external border guards. Several Member States also seem to want to explore this option further in order to strengthen resources for combating illegal immigration.
The countries who are candidates to join the European Union will be required, in the long term – I stress the long term – to play a full role in implementing the Schengen acquis and the acquis communautaire, in the area, amongst others, of controlling the European Union’s external borders and of the unchecked free movement of individuals within internal borders. Even from the point of view of developing Community law, the only aim of external border controls is to check individuals purely in terms of migration. The controls also seek to ensure monitoring of external borders in terms of combating crime, or applying customs regulations and to ensure that various technical regulations that apply to vehicles or to dangerous or illicit merchandise are being respected.
That is why – and I am able to confirm this – the Italian Government has requested the Commission’s support to undertake a feasibility study on the possibility of setting up a corps of European border guards. This is an initiative that was also supported by several other Member States and which the Commission favours. As you know, any decision regarding this sort of programme supported by the Odysseus programme depends on the Management Committee. What I can say to you is that the Commission supports the Italian initiative.
To turn to the subject of the European Police College, which was created as a result of the Council decision of 22 December 2000, to which the European Parliament also contributed in the form of Mr Posselt’s report – I would like to say that in terms of its organisation, the College’s rules of procedure will be submitted for the Council’s information. The headquarters of the European Police College’s secretariat will be established on the basis of a forthcoming decision by the Council. Its operating budget will also be set. I can inform you that the College’s governing board approved its draft financial regulation on 23 March and this will now be submitted for approval to the Council.
With regard to the College’s working programme, we are working on the basis that the Police College must not be used to finance existing national actions and that it must concentrate on a few priority areas which are currently being defined."@en1
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