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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, vehicle theft is on the rise in Europe, as is a feeling of insecurity among our citizens. Europol tells us that of the 1 million-plus cars stolen in 2002, fewer than 39% were recovered.
In Parliament we have adopted and recommended various measures. We did this as recently as March and I congratulate the Council for finally implementing some of them. Better late than never. The proposal submitted to us by the Netherlands is well intentioned but in the wrong form. The text submitted to us should have fallen under the scope of the first pillar and not the third. The Commission upheld our arguments in this regard. Some people in this House felt that it should be rejected for this reason. We saw it differently in the Civil Liberties Committee. We have removed from the text anything that should exclusively fall under the Community pillar and included anything that could be covered by the intergovernmental pillar. Mr President, we have proved that Parliament has acted in good faith and is sensitive to the growing problem of car theft and the criminality that goes with it. We should like to give one message to the Council: it would be good if, in the future, the Council and the Member States showed greater respect for Parliament’s prerogatives.
One last word to thank all those Members of this House who contributed with proposals and advice, in particular the Members of the Transport Committee and Mr Jardim Fernandes and Mrs Wortmann-Kool."@en1
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