WRITTEN QUESTION E-0546/02 by Ilka Schröder (GUE/NGL) to the Council. Raid by the Netherlands Police on the Vrankrijk Building in Amsterdam.
Date: 2002-03-04
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: North Holland, breach of domicile, building, competence of the Member States, freedom of assembly, public order, search

26.9.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 229 E/99

be the authority which determines the legal beginning of such a partnership and, potentially (for
administrative reasons this is particularly important) the legal end of such a partnership, as well as the
detailed conditions of the termination.

(cid:26) It will be clear from the above that the requirements for recognition of a partnership under national
law can lead to a situation where access to family benefits is not identical for officials of different
nationalities who are living in a stable partnership. For the reasons of competence and legal authority
set out above, however, such situations appear to be unavoidable. It should be noted, of course, that
such reference to national
in relevant parts of the Staff Regulations. The
divergence of status and treatment which the Honourable Member uses in his question as illustrations
are a product of the diversity of legal provisions in Member States and not of discriminatory provision
or intention by the Commission.

legislation is normal

(cid:26) No proposal is at present envisaged on the issue of recognition of non-marital partnerships by one
Member State where such recognition is established under the national law in another Member State.

(1) OJ C 160 E, 4.7.2002, p. 73.
(2) Oral reply, 13.12.2001.

(2002/C 229 E/112)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0546/02

by Ilka Schröder (GUE/NGL) to the Council

(4 March 2002)

Subject: Raid by the Netherlands Police on the ‘Vrankrijk’ Building in Amsterdam

At about 3.30 a.m. on 17 January 2002, some 200 officers from the Amsterdam Police Force stormed the
internationally famous ‘Vrankrijk’ Building, located at 216 Spuistraat in the city centre, and, according to
inhabitants of the building, hit a neighbour so hard with a truncheon that he required hospital treatment.
They then searched all 14 apartments (see report at www.statewatch.org). During the raid, several books,
mobile telephones and a collection of water pistols were confiscated. According to statements by the
inhabitants of the building, the police also searched apartments for which they did not hold a search
warrant. (see report at http://www.indymedia.de/2002/01/13697/html).

1. What information does the Council have about the raid on the ‘Vrankrijk’ Building? On what legal
basis was it carried out?

2. What measures will the Council take in the future in order to prevent raids on buildings or parts of
buildings in the Member States?

3. What information does the Council have about any of its own proposals or Commission proposals
designed to afford better protection from arbitrary police action of fundamental rights in the EU, especially
the fundamental right of inviolability of the home?

Reply

(25 June 2002)

The Honourable Member of the European Parliament is informed that Article 33 TEU excludes national
measures aimed at protection of public order in the Member States from the competence of the Council.