REU, Alm.del - 2024-25 - Bilag 45: Program og invitation til 15. møde i den parlamentariske følgegruppe vedr. Europol (JPSG)

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REU Alm.del Bilag 45
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To the Chair(s) of the committee(s) concerned

Subject: Invitation to the 15th meeting of the JPSG on Europol on 12 November 2024

Dear Chair,

Within the framework provided by Article 51 of the Europol Regulation (EU) 2016/794,

we are pleased to invite you to the

15th Meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny

Group (JPSG) on Europol,

which will take place

on 12 November 2024 at the

European Parliament in Brussels.

The meeting will be held in person only.

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

according to Article 51 of the Europol Regulation, including presentations by Ms

Catherine DE BOLLE, Europol Executive Director, Mr Peter DE BUYSSCHER, the

Chair of the Europol Management Board and Mr Wojciech WIEWIÓROWSKI, the

European Data Protection Supervisor. During the meeting, there will also be exchanges

of views with Europol’s Data Protection Officer and Fundamental Rights Officer.

The draft agenda also includes two scrutiny sessions: the first on

the need to prevent

security threats like the Solingen attack through addressing illegal migration

and the

second on

the fight against cybercrime, in particular crimes using Artificial Intelligence;

possibilities of knowledge sharing involving CEPOL.

Oral questions to Europol

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

to the right to address oral questions to Europol. Please find attached the Guide for

Members on JPSG Written and Oral questions, explaining the procedure for submitting

questions.

In order for Europol to prepare replies in time for the meeting, members/delegations

wishing to submit oral questions are kindly requested to send them to the JPSG Co-Chairs

Tuesday 29 October at the latest.

Europol's multiannual programming document 2025-2027

REU, Alm.del - 2024-25 - Bilag 45: Program og invitation til 15. møde i den parlamentariske følgegruppe vedr. Europol (JPSG)

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

consulted on Europol's multiannual programming document 2025-2027. Please find

attached the draft document for consultation. If they wish to do so, delegations are invited

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

Tuesday 29 October 2024.

The Executive Director of Europol will be asked to react

to the received written comments during her intervention.

Appointment of the members of the JPSG Consultative Forum on Fundamental

Rights

In accordance with the revised Rules of Procedure, on 24 June 2024 the JPSG launched

a call for expression of interest from individuals and relevant EU and national agencies

and bodies, international and intergovernmental organisations, academia and civil society

organisations to become members of JPSG Consultative Forum from 1 December 2024

to the end of the term of the 10th European Parliament in July 2029.

The deadline for submitting expressions of interest and sending the supporting documents

was 2 September 2024 (midday, 12:00h of Brussels local time).

The list of applicants and the list of Consultative Forum members is publicly available

on the JPSG pages on the IPEX (InterParliamentary EU information eXchange) website.

Acting on a proposal of the Presidential Troika, and taking into account the broad range

of disciplines, knowledge and expertise, gender balance and, insofar as possible,

geographical distribution, the JPSG will appoint up to 11 individuals or organisations as

members of the Consultative Forum.

General aspects

We would like to recall that your Parliament/Chamber can be represented by up to four

members in the JPSG (in the case of bicameral parliaments each Chamber with up to two

members each). Members and their delegations will be asked to register for the meeting.

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 contributions in one of these two languages. Please send them to the JPSG

Secretariat

[email protected]

and the Hungarian National

Assembly

[email protected].

REU, Alm.del - 2024-25 - Bilag 45: Program og invitation til 15. møde i den parlamentariske følgegruppe vedr. Europol (JPSG)

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

and the

website of the

parliamentary dimension of the Hungarian presidency

ahead of the meeting and

distributed to delegations by email.

Further information and additional documents will be forwarded in due course to your

Parliament's services.

Yours sincerely,

Mr. Javier ZARZALEJOS

Co-Chair of the JPSG and Chair of

the Committee on Civil Liberties,

Justice and Home Affairs, European

Parliament

Mr. Lajos KÓSA

Co-Chair of the JPSG and Chair of the

Committee on Defence and Law

Enforcement,

Hungarian

National

Assembly

Mr. Imre VEJKEY

Co-Chair of the JPSG and Chair of the

Committee on Justice, Hungarian

National Assembly

Annex 1:

Draft agenda of the 15th meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group

(JPSG) on the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol)

Annex 2:

Guide for Members on JPSG Written and Oral Questions

Annex 3:

Europol's draft multiannual programming document 2025-2027