Proposal for a Council Decision on the repeal of Council Decision 2007/124/EC, Euratom

Under the multiannual framework 2007-13, the General Programme on Security and Safeguarding Liberties was established. Its key objective was to ensure effective operational cooperation in the fight against terrorism, including its consequences, organised crime and general crime, to support the provision of intelligence on a European scale and to strengthen the prevention of crime and terrorism, in order to promote secure societies based on the rule of law.

Given that these objectives had different legal bases in the Treaties and fundamentally different legal regimes, the General Programme was composed of two different legal instruments. Firstly, Council Decision 2007/125/JHA established the Specific Programme ‘Prevention of and Fight against Crime’ (hereinafter referred to as the ‘ISEC specific programme’). The specific programme focused on four thematic areas: crime prevention and criminology, law enforcement, protection and support to witnesses, and protection of victims. Secondly, Council Decision 2007/124/EC, Euratom established the Specific Programme ‘Prevention, Preparedness and Consequence Management of Terrorism and other Security-related risks’ (hereinafter referred to as the ‘CIPS specific programme’). Its general objective was to support Member States’ efforts to prevent, prepare for, and protect people and critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks and other security-related incidents.

Within the comprehensive framework of the Internal Security Fund, the instrument for financial support for police cooperation, preventing and combating crime, and crisis management (hereinafter referred to as ‘the ISF-Police’) will provide financial support for police cooperation, exchange of and access to information, crime prevention and the fight against cross-border and serious and organised crime, including terrorism, the protection of people and critical infrastructure against security-related incidents and the effective management of security-related risks and crises.

Consequently, the ISEC and CIPS specific programmes providing financial support for this policy area under the multiannual framework 2007-13 have to be repealed with effect from 1 January 2014, subject to transitional rules.

EUR-Lex: COM(2013)580: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2013:580:FIN

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