EU lays out anti-terror proposals

The European Commission adopted 6 November 2007 a new package of proposals aimed at improving the EU’s capabilities in the fight against terrorism. The package contains a series of proposals dealing with the criminalization of terrorist training, recruitment and public provocation to commit terrorist offences, the prevention of the use of explosives by terrorists and the use of airline passenger information in law enforcement investigations. It also contains a report on the implementation of one of the key legal instruments of the EU’s counter terrorism arsenal.

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European Commission: Press Release: IP/07/1649: Fight Against Terrorism: stepping up Europe’s capability to protect citizens against the threat of terrorism http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/1649&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: MEMO/07/450: Action Plan on Enhancing the Security of Explosives http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/07/450&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: MEMO/07/449: Proposal for a Council Framework Decision on the use of Passenger Name Record (PNR) for law enforcement purposes http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/07/449&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: MEMO/07/448: Amendment of the Framework Decision on combating terrorism and Evaluation report on the implementation of the Framework Decision on combating terrorism http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/07/448&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

Association of European Airlines: Press Release, 8.11.07: European airline body dismayed at proposal for EU-PNR system http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/nov/eu-pnr-airlines-reactions.pdf

Statewatch: Observatory: EU surveillance of passengers (PNR) http://www.statewatch.org/eu-pnrobservatory.htm

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