| Author (Corporate) | United Kingdom: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee |
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| Publisher | The Stationery Office (TSO) |
| Series Title | 37th Report |
| Series Details | (2012-13)HC 798 |
| Publication Date | 2013 |
| ISBN | 978-0-21-505541-5 |
| Content Type | Policy-making |
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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. |
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| Source Link | http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmeuleg/798/79802.htm |
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| Countries / Regions | United Kingdom |
