HC Deb 21 November 2000 vol 357 cc147-8W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the(a) current and (b) planned contact committees for harmonisation of home affairs matters at EU level. [138090]

Mrs. Roche

The Treaty on European Union established the "Article 36 Committee", a co-ordinating committee of senior officials in the field of police co-operation and judicial co-operation in criminal matters. The Committee of Permanent Representatives has also approved, most recently in 1999, a list of working parties and committees in the Justice and Home Affairs sector. In addition, a number of the working parties established by the Permanent Representatives Committee in the General Affairs sector deal with issues with a justice and home affairs dimension. No changes to these committees are planned at present.

Justice and Home Affairs

Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum (SCIFA)

Working Party on Migration and Expulsion

Working Party on Visas

Asylum Working Party

  1. (a) Dublin Convention
  2. (b) Eurodac

Centre for Information, Discussion and Exchange on Asylum (CIREA) Working Party

Centre for Information, Discussion and Exchange on the Crossing of Frontiers and Immigration (CIREFI) Working Party

Working Party on Frontiers (including false documents)

Committee on Civil Law Matters

Working Party on Information Systems and Data Protection (excluding the Schengen Information System (SIS))

SIS Working Party

Schengen Information System Technical Working Party (SIS-TECH)

  1. (a) General
  2. (b) Schengen Information System Network (SISNET)

Working Party on Police cooperation (including false documents)

  1. (a) Telecommunications
  2. (b) Investigative Techniques and Forensic Science
  3. (c) Exchange of Police Intelligence Europol Working Party

Working Party on Terrorism

Working Party on Drug Trafficking

Customs Co-operation Working Party

Working Party on Co-operation in Criminal Matters

Working Party on Substantive Criminal Law

Working Party on Collective Evaluation

Working Party on Schengen Evaluation

Working Party on the Schengen Acquis

Multidisciplinary Group on Organised Crime

Working Party on the European Judicial Network

Working Party on the Contact and Support Network

Working Party on Civil Protection

General Affairs (Horizontal Issues)

High Level Working Group on Asylum and Migration

Horizontal Working Party on Drugs

General Affairs (External Relations)

Committee for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management.