§ Mr. MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the functions of the(a) board of management and (b) joint supervisory body of Europol; what representation the United Kingdom has on both bodies; and how many of its staff are seconded from United Kingdom police forces. [123893]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThe functions of the Europol Management Board and the Joint Supervisory Body are set out in Articles 28 and 24 of the Europol Convention, a copy of which has been placed in the Library. The United Kingdom is represented on the Management Board by the Director General of the National Criminal Intelligence Service, and on the Joint Supervisory Body by the Director and Deputy Director of the Office of the Data Protection Registrar.
Four members of the National Criminal Intelligence Service are at present on secondment to Europol as Liaison Officers under Article 5 of the Convention. 17 other United Kingdom nationals are employed by Europol on contract terms under Article 1 of the Staff Regulations applicable to Europol Employees.
§ Mr. MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the proposed contributions of each member state of the European Union 155W to Europol for (a) 2000 and (b) 2001, indicating the basis for such payments, and the main items of planned expenditure in each year. [123894]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeEuropol's draft budgets for the years 2000 and 2001 are in European Union Council documents EUROPOL 41, 11030/99 and EUROPOL 8, 7695/00, copies of which are in the Library. These show that member states' contributions are as follows.
Euro 2000 2001 Austria 620,254 754,533 Belgium 759,021 896,461 Denmark 496,349 594,996 Finland 352,936 431,912 France 4,394,707 5,090,100 Germany 6,552,284 7,571,678 Greece 373,967 426,457 Ireland 190,975 242,432 Italy 3,565,922 4,179,684 Luxembourg 54,271 63,792 Netherlands 1,135,079 1,357,330 Portugal 316,943 377,098 Spain 1,668,231 1,992,532 Sweden 681,903 823,762 United Kingdom 4,130,107 5,134,443 Total1 25,292,950 29,937,207 1 The differences in the totals in the two tables reflect other revenues and adjustments made to the contributions to finance the proposed expenditures. The contributions are based on member states' gross national products.
The items of proposed expenditure as set out in the budget are as follows.
Euro 2000 2001 Personnel 15,254,000 18,737,800 Bodies and organs1 2,007,000 2,155,000 Europol Computer System 7,000,000 10,724,000 Other expenditure2 4,185,000 4,995,000 Total3 28,446,000 36,611,800 1 Including the Joint Supervisory Board 2 The building; information and communications technology; vehicles; communications; other acquisitions and other running costs. 3 The differences in the totals in the two tables reflect other revenues and adjustments made to the contributions to finance the proposed expenditures.