In Brussels, the Council and Parliament are waiting for the Lisbon Treaty to be enacted so that the European Police Office (Europol) powers can be greatly enhanced beyond cross-border crime – this inevitably has implied that the Lisbon Treaty will ensure new crime measures above and beyond national laws (under Article 69G). According to Article 2 (1) of the Europol Convention the objective of Europol, the European Law Enforcement Organisation, is to improve “effectiveness and cooperation of the competent authorities in the Member States in preventing and combating terrorism, unlawful drug trafficking and other serious forms of international crime where there are factual indications that an organized criminal structure is involved and two or more Member States are affected by the forms of crime in question in such a way as to require a common approach by the Member States owing to the scale, significance and consequences of the offences concerned.”
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