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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Parliament has been consistent in approving various initiatives to widen Europol's mandate. In addition to drug trafficking and its initial powers, we have given it additional powers relating to trafficking in human beings, terrorism, money laundering, forging money and means of payment, as well as all kinds of serious international crime.
We want to help transform Europol into a more efficient organisation for fighting against organised crime. The initiative before us today is intended to go further still, to revise the Europol Convention itself, which as it stands limits Europol's functions to collecting, analysing and exchanging data. We welcome the idea of giving Europol operational powers in line with our interpretation of the Treaty of Amsterdam. But we also wish to stress the need for this to go hand in hand with measures ensuring democratic scrutiny or judicial control.
The procedure adopted for revising the convention is, however, of a strictly intergovernmental nature. We therefore support the proposal put forward by the rapporteur, Mr Deprez, that this initiative should be withdrawn and that a new proposal should be presented with a view to replacing the convention by means of a Council decision under Article 34, which would make it possible to integrate Europol into the third pillar and accordingly into the institutional framework of the European Union, as has been repeatedly requested by the European Parliament.
What we wish to see in these parts of the area of freedom, security and justice are firm, specific and carefully considered measures. We reject initiatives which suggest that something is being done but which lack any real substance. That is why I support the Sousa Pinto report and am proposing that the Spanish initiative for the establishment of a European Institute of Police Studies, which would overlap with the structure already in place and in particular the European Police College, should be rejected.
We also support Mr Deprez's report on increasing the basic salaries of Europol staff: if the European Parliament is not consulted on Europol's general budget, it does not make sense for it to be consulted on a matter of detail. I agree with the rapporteur on the importance of incorporating Europol's budget into the Community budget."@en1
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