Press Release: Schengen Area – The Commission proposes to facilitate cross border surveillance and ‘hot pursuit’ between Member States

The European Commission on 19 July 2005 adopted a proposal for a Council Decision on the improvement of police cooperation between Member States of the European Union, especially at the internal borders and amending the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement. The proposal intended to provide a general framework to improve the operational cooperation, structural coordination and information exchange between law enforcement authorities of EU Member States. The Proposal responded to the invitation of the Hague Programme to further develop cross-border police cooperation and also aims at amending the Convention Implementing the Schengen Agreement, by removing the limitation to land borders in the context of hot pursuit and extending the possibilities in which cross border surveillance and cross border pursuit can be carried out.

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European Commission: COM (2005) 317, 'Proposal ... on the improvement of police cooperation between the Member States of the European Union, especially at the internal borders and amending the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement' http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/com/2005/com2005_0317en01.pdf

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