EUU, Alm.del - 2018-19 (2. samling) - Bilag 91: Invitation til Europol JPSG-møde 23-24/9-19 i Bruxelles

Europaudvalget 2018-19 (2. samling)
EUU Alm.del Bilag 91
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To the Chairperson(s) of the committee(s) concerned

Dear Chair,

In the framework provided by Article 51 of the Europol regulation EU(2016)0794, we are

pleased to invite you to the

Fifth Meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group on

Europol,

which will take place on

23 and 24 September 2019 in the European Parliament

in Brussels.

The meeting will tackle a number of concrete issues directly arising from the JPSG prerogatives

according to Article 51 of the Europol Regulation, including a presentation by Ms Catherine

DE BOLLE, Europol Executive Director, as well as a keynote speech by Minister of Interior

of Finland Ms Maria OHISALO. The thematic debate will focus on Europol's information

management priorities in 2019. Other important topics to be included in the Europol

presentation are fight against cybercrime, structure of organised crime groups in the EU, money

laundering and child pornography.

Please find attached the draft agenda of the meeting as agreed by the Presidential Troika of this

meeting.

Written questions

According to Article 4.2 of the JPSG Rules of Procedure, we kindly draw your attention to the

right to address oral and written questions to Europol. As Europol needs six weeks in order to

prepare replies to written question, we would like to ask you to

submit your written questions

to the JPSG Secretariat

by 2 August 2019 at the latest.

This will allow for the replies to be

available in time for the fifth JPSG meeting.

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Europol’s multiannual programming document 2020-2022

Pursuant to Article 51 paragraph 2 point c) of the Europol Regulation, the JPSG is consulted

Europol’s multiannual programming document 2020-2022.

Please find attached the draft

document, which will be debated in the JPSG meeting. If they wish so, delegations are invited

to send to the JPSG Secretariat written comments to the document ahead of the meeting.

JPSG’s representative to the Europol Management Board

Another important topic is the designation of the

JPSG’s representative to participate as

observer in the meetings of the Europol Management Board.

The topic was debated already

in the JPSG meeting in Bucharest, where a consensus could unfortunately not be reached.

Therefore, this point will be again on the agenda. Some delegations have already submitted to

the JPSG written contributions on the topic. Delegations are invited, if they so wish, to send

written comments to the JPSG Secretariat on this issue. Please be reminded that if any changes

of the Rules of Procedure on the issue are proposed, they have to be formally tabled also in the

form of amendments to the Rules of Procedure.

Written comments and contributions

We would like to invite the delegations to send us their

written comments and contributions

on the Europol’s multiannual programming document 2020-2022 and on the JPSG’s

representative to the meetings of the Europol Management Board by 4 September 2019.

Amendments to the Rules of Procedure

In the fourth JPSG meeting in Bucharest, Romania, a

deadline for amendments to the Rules

of Procedure of the JPSG

has been open -

4 September 2019.

The amendments have to be

tabled by delegations, not individual Members, and sent within the deadline to the JPSG

Secretariat. The amendments will be debated in the fifth JPSG meeting, with possible adoption

of amended Rules of Procedure of the JPSG.

General aspects

According to Article 4.3 of the JSPG Rules of Procedure, the working languages of the JPSG

are English and French, therefore we would like to ask the delegations to submit all written

question, written comments, contributions and/or amendments to the Rules of Procedure in one

of these two languages. The e-mail addresses of the JPSG Secretariat are following:

[email protected]

All documents submitted by Europol for the meeting in line with Article 51.3 of the Europol

Regulation, as well as all contributions by the delegations to the JPSG and other relevant

documents will be published on the

IPEX JPSG website

ahead of the meeting.

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Further practical details will be forwarded in due course to your Parliament's services

responsible for relations with the European Parliament and published as well on the website.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR

Co-Chair of the JPSG

Chair of the Committee on Civil Liberties,

Justice and Home Affairs

European Parliament

Ms Mari-Leena TALVITIE

Co-Chair of the JPSG

Head of delegation of the Finnish

Parliament to the JPSG

Finnish Parliament

Annex 1: Draft agenda of the Fifth meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group on the

European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol)

Annex 2: Draft Europol Multiannual Programming Document 2020-2022