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EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 27-28 April 2006 in Luxembourg

01 April 2006

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Press release (pdf)

B Points agenda (pdf)
A Points agenda (adopted without debate, pdf)
Background Note (pdf)

The agenda for discussion includes a number of issues on which there appears to be no agreement between the EU governments. For example, an amendment to the Schengen Agreement on police cooperation: EU doc no 8459/06 and an extraordinary Declaration by the Czech Republic, Latvia, Hungary, Estonia, Lithuania and Slovakia delegations backing the "use of biometrics" to "promote EU security" and for "flexibility" on the contested legal basis for SIS II: EU doc no: 8610/06 see EU doc no 8537/06 for the substantive issues. The same goes for the proposed Framework Decision on procedural rights in criminal proceedings, such are the differences that some governments (UK, Czech Republic, Ireland, Malta, Cyprus and Slovakia) are suggesting a non-binding measure be adopted instead: EU doc no 8466/06 And for the mutual recognition to judgments in criminal matters imposing custodial sentences: EU doc no: 8426/06 Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments: "All of these measures concern substantive differences on fundamental issues yet all of these documents are secret, surely we have a right to know what is being decided in our name?"

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