The 2014 block opt-out: Engaging with Parliament

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Series Details (2012-13)HC 798
Publication Date 2013
ISBN 978-0-21-505541-5
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In September 2012, the UK Prime Minister announced that the Government intended to exercise the right conferred exclusively on the UK by the Lisbon Treaty to opt out of EU criminal law and policing measures adopted before that Treaty entered into force on 1 December 2009. The Government's thinking was that it would opt out of all pre-Lisbon police and criminal justice measures and then negotiate with the Commission and other Member States to opt back into those individual measures that it was in the national interest to rejoin.

This report aims to set out the information the Government should provide to ensure genuine engagement with Parliament in the process leading up to the Parliamentary vote on the UK's block opt-out. The Government's decision on the block opt-out will have potentially far-reaching implications. It will affect UK citizens who may be sought for, or involved in, criminal proceedings in another EU Member State and how suspects who have fled abroad are brought to justice in the UK. Above all, it will affect the way in which Government seeks to ensure public safety and security while protecting its citizens' freedoms.

Source Link Link to Main Source http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmeuleg/798/79802.htm
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United Kingdom: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee: 34th Report (2012-13)HC 86-xxxiv http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmeuleg/86-xxxiv/86xxxiv.pdf
United Kingdom: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee: First Special Report (2013-14)HC 289: The 2014 block opt-out - engaging with Parliament: Government response to the 37th Report of Session 2012-13 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmeuleg/289/28902.htm
United Kingdom: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee: First Special Report (2013-14)HC 289: The 2014 block opt-out - engaging with Parliament: Government response to the 37th Report of Session 2012-13 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmeuleg/289/289.pdf

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