Initiative of the Kingdom of Spain on the setting up of a network of contact points of national authorities responsible for private security
Date: 2002-02-15
Institutions: Spain
Subjects: EU police cooperation, Spain, approximation of laws, crime against individuals, legal person, natural person

15.2.2002

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Official Journal of the European Communities

C 42/15

Initiative of the Kingdom of Spain on the setting up of a network of contact points of national
authorities responsible for private security

(2002/C 42/09)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Article 2

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in
particular to Articles 29, 30(1)(a) and 34(2)(c) thereof,

The network shall consist of contact points designated by each
Member State, with competence for authorising, supervising
and sanctioning private security activities.

Having regard to the initiative of the Kingdom of Spain,

Candidate countries for accession to the European Union may
also designate a contact point.

Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament,

Article 3

Whereas:

In addition to furthering cooperation and collaboration
between national authorities responsible for private security,
the network shall have the following objectives:

(1) The seminars of private security experts held in Madrid on
13 to 17 November 2000 and in Brussels on 6 and 7
September 2001 submitted their conclusions.

(a)

facilitating the coordination and cooperation between the
various national bodies responsible for the private security
sector;

(2) Common requirements need to be established in Member
States regarding the authorisation and supervision of the
supply of private security services by natural and legal
persons acting in the territory of the European Union.

(b) exchanging information on the models

private
candidate countries;

security in each Member State

for

regulating
and in the

(3) Cooperation and coordination should be facilitated between
the various national bodies responsible for supervising and
controlling private security, so as to improve all aspects
which are part of the operation of the private security
sector.

(c) establishing best practices, and in the long term, examining
the possibility of approximating the models and best
practices.

(4) There is a need to unify those aspects which, without
affecting the peculiarities of each Member State, would
allow the parties involved in that sector of activity to
extend their business interests to any Member State,

In order to achieve the proposed objectives, an Internet site
shall be set up and be kept constantly up to date, which will
permit:

Article 4

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

(a) access to all the legislation of Member States and candidate

countries on private security;

Article 1

A network of contact points of national authorities responsible
is
for private security, hereinafter known as (cid:145)the network(cid:146),
hereby created.

The network shall be chaired by the national authority
responsible for private security of the Member State holding
the Presidency of the Council.

(b) a permanent contact between the national authorities

responsible for private security;

(c) exchanges of experience on the efficiency of

transport and deposit of

security
funds,

systems, alarm centres;
works of art, etc;

The network shall be assisted by the Secretariat of the Council.

(d) knowledge of the companies operating in the sector, their
particulars, activities, geographical area of activity, and staff
training.

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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,