COM(2005)6 - Fight against organised crime

official title

 

Legal instrument	Framework decision
Decision making procedure	Consultation procedure (CNS)
reference by COM-number29	COM(2005)6
Additional COM-numbers	COM(2005)6
procedure number31	2005/0003(CNS)
CELEX number32	52005PC0006

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• 1. 

  It is difficult, however, to measure organised crime precisely as Member States do not systematically publish figures on the basis of common definitions.
  
   
• 2. 

  OJ L 351, 29.12.1998, p.1. A criminal organisation is defined as
   
• 3. 

  COM(2004) 221 final.
  
   
• 4. 

  United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime adopted by Resolution A/RES/55/25 of 15 November 2000 at the 55th UN General Assembly. The 40th instrument of ratification was deposited with the Secretariat-General of the United Nations on 1 July 2003; it accordingly came into force on 29 September 2003.
  
   
• 5. 

  OJ L 164, 22.6.2002, p. 3.
  
   
• 6. 

  The Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA makes punishable the direction of a terrorist group and different forms of participation in the activities of a terrorist group (by supplying information or material resources, or by funding its activities in any way, with knowledge of the fact that such participation will contribute to the criminal activities of the terrorist group); it also provides for inciting, aiding or abetting, and in most cases attempting these offences. Regarding penalties, it introduces a principle of 'aggravating circumstance' by providing that 'terrorist offences' and certain offences linked to terrorism must be punishable by custodial sentences heavier than those imposable under national law for such offences in the absence of a terrorist intent; it sets the minimum level of the maximum penalty at 15 years for directing a terrorist group and 8 years for participation in a terrorist group; it enumerates a series of penalties that can be imposed on bodies corporate (in particular exclusion from entitlement to public benefits or aid, temporary or permanent disqualification from the practice of commercial activities, placing under judicial supervision, judicial winding-up order and closure of establishments); it provides for a system of 'repentis' by providing for specific circumstances in which Member States may reduce prison sentences where the terrorist renounces terrorist activity and provides the administrative or judicial authorities with information. And it establishes rules of jurisdiction and provides for measures to facilitate coordination between Member States and the centralisation of prosecutions.
  
   
• 7. 

  OJ C
   
• 8. 

  OJ C
   
• 9. 

  Annex 1 to the Conclusions of the Brussels European Council, 4 and 5 November 2004 (Introduction, paragraph 6)
  
   
• 10. 

  COM(2004) 221 final.
  
   
• 11. 

  OJ L 351, 29.12.1998, p.1.
  
   
• 12. 

  OJ L 82, 22.3.2001, p.1.
  
   
• 13. 

  OJ L 261, 6.8.2004, p. 69.
  
   
• 14. 

  OJ L 82, 22.3.2001, p. 1.
  
   
• 15. 

  It is difficult, however, to measure organised crime precisely as Member States do not systematically publish figures on the basis of common definitions.
  
   
• 16. 

  OJ L 351, 29.12.1998, p.1. A criminal organisation is defined as
   
• 17. 

  COM(2004) 221 final.
  
   
• 18. 

  United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime adopted by Resolution A/RES/55/25 of 15 November 2000 at the 55th UN General Assembly. The 40th instrument of ratification was deposited with the Secretariat-General of the United Nations on 1 July 2003; it accordingly came into force on 29 September 2003.
  
   
• 19. 

  OJ L 164, 22.6.2002, p. 3.
  
   
• 20. 

  The Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA makes punishable the direction of a terrorist group and different forms of participation in the activities of a terrorist group (by supplying information or material resources, or by funding its activities in any way, with knowledge of the fact that such participation will contribute to the criminal activities of the terrorist group); it also provides for inciting, aiding or abetting, and in most cases attempting these offences. Regarding penalties, it introduces a principle of 'aggravating circumstance' by providing that 'terrorist offences' and certain offences linked to terrorism must be punishable by custodial sentences heavier than those imposable under national law for such offences in the absence of a terrorist intent; it sets the minimum level of the maximum penalty at 15 years for directing a terrorist group and 8 years for participation in a terrorist group; it enumerates a series of penalties that can be imposed on bodies corporate (in particular exclusion from entitlement to public benefits or aid, temporary or permanent disqualification from the practice of commercial activities, placing under judicial supervision, judicial winding-up order and closure of establishments); it provides for a system of 'repentis' by providing for specific circumstances in which Member States may reduce prison sentences where the terrorist renounces terrorist activity and provides the administrative or judicial authorities with information. And it establishes rules of jurisdiction and provides for measures to facilitate coordination between Member States and the centralisation of prosecutions.
  
   
• 21. 

  OJ C
   
• 22. 

  OJ C
   
• 23. 

  Annex 1 to the Conclusions of the Brussels European Council, 4 and 5 November 2004 (Introduction, paragraph 6)
  
   
• 24. 

  COM(2004) 221 final.
  
   
• 25. 

  OJ L 351, 29.12.1998, p.1.
  
   
• 26. 

  OJ L 82, 22.3.2001, p.1.
  
   
• 27. 

  OJ L 261, 6.8.2004, p. 69.
  
   
• 28. 

  OJ L 82, 22.3.2001, p.
   
• 29. 

  De Europese Commissie kent nummers toe aan officiële documenten van de Europese Unie. De Commissie maakt onderscheid in een aantal typen documenten door middel van het toekennen van verschillende nummerseries. Het onderscheid is gebaseerd op het soort document en/of de instelling van de Unie van wie het document afkomstig is.
   
• 30. 

  De Raad van de Europese Unie kent aan wetgevingsdossiers een uniek toe. Dit nummer bestaat uit een vijfcijferig volgnummer gevolgd door een schuine streep met de laatste twee cijfers van het jaartal, bijvoorbeeld 12345/00 - een document met nummer 12345 uit het jaar 2000.
   
• 31. 

  Het interinstitutionele nummer is een nummerreeks die binnen de Europese Unie toegekend wordt aan voorstellen voor regelgeving van de Europese Commissie.
  Binnen de Europese Unie worden nog een aantal andere nummerseries gebruikt. Iedere instelling heeft één of meerdere sets documenten met ieder een eigen nummering. Die reeksen komen niet overeen met elkaar of het interinstitutioneel nummer.
   
• 32. 

  Deze databank van de Europese Unie biedt de mogelijkheid de actuele werkzaamheden (workflow) van de Europese instellingen (Europees Parlement, Raad, ESC, Comité van de Regio's, Europese Centrale Bank, Hof van Justitie enz.) te volgen. EURlex volgt alle voorstellen (zoals wetgevende en begrotingsdossiers) en mededelingen van de Commissie, vanaf het moment dat ze aan de Raad of het Europees Parlement worden voorgelegd.
   
• 33. 

  Als dag van bekendmaking van een Europees besluit geldt de dag waarop het besluit in het Publicatieblad wordt bekendgemaakt, en daardoor in alle officiële talen van de Europese Unie bij het Publicatiebureau beschikbaar is.
   
• 34. 

  This type of legally binding act is no longer used since the Treaty of Lisbon came into force December 2009. A framework decision established objectives the member states had to fulfil. The member states were free to choose the manner to which they would implement the required objectives. The framework decision was exclusively used in the field of justice and home affairs.