Initiative of the Kingdom of Spain establishing a European Institute of Police Studies
Date: 2002-02-15
Institutions: Spain
Subjects: EU office or agency, EU police cooperation, Spain, police

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Article 5

Article 7

1.
The national authorities responsible for private security
integrated into the network may hold a meeting at least once a
year, and shall submit a report on the outcome of the meetings
to the Council.

This Decision shall take effect on the day following that of its
adoption by the Council.

2.

The network shall be financed [. . .].

Done at . . .

Article 6

The Council shall carry out an evaluation of the network’s
activities two years after this Decision takes effect.

For the Council

The President

. . .

Initiative of the Kingdom of Spain establishing a European Institute of Police Studies

(2002/C 42/10)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in
particular Article 30(1); Article 30(2)(d); Article 31(c) and (e);
Article 32; Article 34(1); and Article 34(2)(c) thereof,

Having regard to the initiative of the Kingdon of Spain,

Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament,

Whereas:

(1) Initiatives are being developed within the European Union
aimed at securing cooperation between the Member States
for the purpose of defining effective public security policies
and, within this framework of cooperation and colla-
institutes of police studies in various Member
boration,
States have been holding informal meetings on an annual
basis aimed at establishing a network.

(2) The informal, open nature of the aforesaid network, devoid
of any clearly defined, set structure or organisational or
operational anchor, limits its effectiveness, complicates the
decision-making process
any objective
assessment of its research and conclusions, thus rendering
implementation of its recommendations impossible.

and prevents

(3) The action plan of the Council and the Commission on
how best to implement the provisions of the Treaty of

it

Amsterdam on an area of freedom, security and justice
is important, when developing European
states that
interests and
cooperation, to take into account national
common approaches as well as differences, and also to
ensure that the measures taken meet factual needs and
add value.

(4) The conclusions of the Tampere European Council of 15
and 16 October 1999 stated that people have the right to
expect the Union to address the threat to their freedom and
legal rights posed by serious crime, organised or otherwise,
and that
is
needed to prevent and fight crime.

to counter these threats a common effort

(5) In the scoreboard to review progress on the creation of an
area of freedom, security and justice in the European Union
updated for the second half of 2001, the Commission has
established that attention should be directed on the one
hand towards
the
various instruments set up to implement police coop-
eration (Europol, Eurojust, European Police College, Police
Chiefs Task Force), and on the other hand towards ensuring
coordinaton between those bodies, thus guaranteeing their
complementarity and avoiding any risk of duplication or
contradiction of effort.

increasing the effective capacity of

(6) The European Parliament urges

in its
the Council,
in establishing an area of
Resolution on progress
freedom, security and justice in the year 2000, to take
account of the impact of the forthcoming enlargement of
the European Union and to establish a framework for
cooperation between Europol, Eurojust and other bodies
with responsibility for combating crime,

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HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 4

TITLE I

Organisation

Article 1

A European Institute of Police Studies, hereinafter referred

1.
to as (cid:145)the Institute(cid:146), is hereby established.

2. Without prejudice to possible future developments arising
from the provisions of Article 9, the Institute shall initially be
set up as a network, by bringing together the national training
and research institutes in the field of security in the Member
States, which shall cooperate closely to that end.

be

The

task

shall

Institute’s

and initiatives

the
3.
in
programmes
response to the crime phenomenon in general,
its causes,
manifestations and effects or consequences for society and for
the structures of the European Union, acting on proposals from
the governing board.

adopted by the Council

implement

to

Article 2

The directors of

1.
training and research
form the Institute’s governing board. Where
institutes shall
there are several directors from a single Member State, they
shall together form a delegation.

the national

The governing board shall be chaired by the director of a
2.
national training and research institute of the Member State
holding the Presidency of the Council. The governing board
shall meet at least once per presidency. It shall establish its
rules of procedure by unanimous decision.

Each delegation shall have one vote on the governing
3.
the
board. Representatives of
Council,
the Commission, Europol and Eurojust, among
others, shall be invited to attend meetings as non-voting
observers. Members of the governing board may be accom-
panied by experts.

the General Secretariat of

Article 3

The governing board shall decide on the

1.
annual
programme of activities and research (subjects or areas for
study or
shall adopt
research, methodology, duration).
additional programmes and initiatives, where appropriate.

It

The governing board shall establish the annual report on

2.
the Institute’s activities.

3.
The governing board’s decisions referred to in paragraphs
1 and 2 shall be adopted unanimously and then passed on to
the Council, which shall take note of them and endorse them.
Due account shall be taken by the governing board of any
comment made by the Council.

1.
The governing board shall set up a permanent secretariat
to assist the Institute with the administrative tasks necessary for
the Institute to function and implement the annual programme
of activities and research and, where appropriate, the additional
programmes and initiatives. The secretariat may be set up
within one of
training and research institutes.
The Council shall decide on the location of the seat of the
secretariat.

the national

2.
The secretariat shall be headed by an administrative
director appointed by the governing board for a three-year
term.

All decisions of

3.
secretariat shall be taken unanimously.

the governing board concerning the

Article 5

The Institute’s budget shall be managed by the secretariat

1.
on the basis of a financial regulation.

The costs of implementing the measures in the annual
2.
programme referred to in Article 3(1),
together with the
administrative costs of the Institute, shall be borne jointly by
the Member States. To that end, the annual contribution from
each Member State shall be established on the basis of the
gross national product (GNP) according to the scale used for
determining the GNP element in own resources for financing
the general budget of the European Union. Each year the GNP
of the previous year shall be taken as the reference basis for
each Member State.

3.
The Institute’s financial regulation and annual budget
shall be drawn up by the governing board acting unanimously,
and submitted for approval to the Governments of the Member
States, meeting within the Council.

Expenditure on the following shall be borne by the

4.
Institute’s budget:

(a) preparation, implementation and assessment of the annual

programme of activities and research;

(b) fees for external contributors;

(c)

travelling expenses of governing board members attending
board meetings, at the rate of two members per Member
State;

(d) general operating costs of the secretariat, except for the

remuneration of its members;

(e) costs for any other initiative adopted by the governing
board or taken by the administrative director in accordance
with the financial regulation;

report on the

The annual
shall be
forwarded to the European Parliament and the Commission
for information.

Institute’s activities

(f)

in

reimbursement,
contributions, of
State(s) paying the
members.

proportion

the costs

to Member

States’
incurred by the Member
secretariat’s
the

remuneration of

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5. Without prejudice to requests by Member States and
acting on instructions from the governing board, the secretariat
may submit to the Commission training and research projects
or programmes for cofinancing that lie within the sphere of
competence of budgetary programmes administered by the
Commission.

TITLE II

Objectives and tasks

Article 6

By optimising cooperation between its various national
1.
training and research institutes,
the Institute shall aim to
contribute to the creation of a body of technical and scientific
knowledge on the fight against crime and the maintenance of
law and order and public security in order to assist the bodies
responsible for police training and police cooperation to
perform the functions assigned to them.

2.

(a)

The Institute shall have the following objectives:

to understand,
political processes having an impact on security;

study and analyse socioeconomic and

(b) to encourage study and research into criminal phenomena

and forms of crime;

(c)

to unify research criteria and tools so that analysis findings
can be reflected in police activity;

(d) to improve common strategies for comparative investi-
gations with a view to increasing the number of operations
on the ground and operations carried out by the competent
local authorities;

(e)

to cooperate with the institutions of the Union in designing
security policies by drawing up the relevant proposals;

(f)

to encourage joint research projects;

(g) to create online databases,

including lists of researchers,

accessible to all the players involved in the Institute;

(h) to foster cooperation between the Institute and other

academic institutions at university level.

3.
The Institute shall offer its cooperation to the institutes of
candidate countries for accession to the European Union as
well as those of Iceland and Norway.

Article 7

(b) organise seminars and meetings to harmonise research,

study and analysis methods and techniques;

(c) propose common research and analysis methods;

(d) transmit the findings of
institutions of the Union;

its research and studies to the

(e) publish and disseminate the findings of its studies, research

and methodologies;

(f)

set up multidisciplinary work teams specialising in the
various aspects of the phenomena affecting security;

(g) establish cooperation links with the bodies of the Union
engaged in scientific, technical and sociopolitical research;

(h) create a body of knowledge capable of identifying progress
in the various branches of science with a view to adapting
or applying them in the field of public security.

Article 8

The Institute shall consider on a case-by-case basis the possi-
bility that officials and agents of the Community Institutions
and bodies may participate in their activities.

The Institute may cooperate with the national police study and
the European
research institutes of non-member States of
shall establish relations with the
Union.
it
institutes of
accession to the
countries
candidate
European Union as well as those of Iceland and Norway.

In particular,

for

The Institute shall also cooperate with the relevant bodies in
the field of
technical and scientific research established at
European level, such as [. . .].

Article 9

At the latest during the third year after this Decision takes
effect,
to the Council a
the governing board shall submit
report on the operation and future of the Institute.

Article 10

This Decision shall take effect on the day following that of its
adoption by the Council.

It shall apply from 1 January 2003.

In order to achieve those objectives,
particular, undertake the following actions:

the Institute may,

in

Done at. . .

(a) plan, design and carry out studies, research and reports on
its own initiative or at the request of the various insti-
tutions of the Union;

For the Council

The President

. . .