Follow-up report on EU police and criminal justice measures: The UK’s 2014 opt-out decision

Following an inquiry undertaken jointly by two of its Sub-Committees, the House of Lords EU Committee, on 31 October 2013, published its follow-up report on the UK’s 2014 opt-out decision regarding 130 EU crime and policing measures.

The Committees concluded that the Government should seek to rejoin the 35 measures that had already been identified, but that it should also seek to rejoin an additional set of measures:

- implementing measures related to Europol’s continued operation;
- the Framework Decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law
- the European Judicial Network
- the European Probation Order
- the Convention of Driving Disqualifications

UK: House of Lords: Select Committee on the European Union: 5th Report (2013-4)HL 69 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201314/ldselect/ldeucom/69/69.pdf

UK: UK Parliament: News, 31.10.13: Government's 2014 opt-in list does not go far enough http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/lords-select/eu-home-affairs-sub-committee-f-/news/p36-followup-report/

ESO: Background information: Theresa May to announce EU opt-out powers decision http://www.europeansources.info/record/theresa-may-to-announce-eu-opt-out-powers-decision/

United Kingdom: House of Lords: Select Committee on the European Union: 13th Report (2012-13)HL 159 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201213/ldselect/ldeucom/159/159.pdf

UK: HM Government: Decision pursuant to Article 10 of Protocol 36 to The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, July 2013 (Cm 8671) http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm86/8671/8671.pdf

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