Co-ordinating Committee of Senior Officials

HC Deb 19 November 1998 vol 319 cc729-30W

Mr. Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the(a) draft conventions and (b) proposals for a convention, under discussion in the Co-ordinating Committee of Senior Officials established under article K4 of the Treaty of Maastricht. [60096]

Kate Hoey

Three draft conventions are under discussion within the framework of the Justice and Home Affairs Council at present. They are the draft Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters between member states of the European Union, the draft Eurodac Convention and the draft Convention on Rules for the Admission of Third Country Nationals into the European Union. No proposals for further such conventions are under discussion at present.