Justice and Home Affairs Committee, 01 Dec 1999
Meeting date: Wednesday, December 1, 1999
Official Report
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European Document
Item 2 is another European document. Yet again, we are grateful to the clerks for their helpful note. It appears that European documents will be a standard item on our agenda.
As members will read in the clerk's note, money laundering is a reserved matter. The committee may want simply to take note of the document. The background is laid out in the clerk's note, as is the procedure that the committee can follow. The European Committee has referred the document to us, as it has come via the criminal justice division of the Scottish Executive. However, as it is a reserved matter, unless there is anything that members particularly want to raise in connection with it, I propose that the committee simply take note of this document.
In the future, we may want to discuss how we can best handle the documents that are referred to us from the European Committee, as many of them relate to reserved matters. My only concern is that we ensure that we are not simply taking note of such documents without highlighting issues that might be relevant.
I have no problem with your comments on this particular directive. However, I note the comment in the clerk's note about the European Commission's communication on crime victims in the European Union. I would like to have a copy of that document. When that document is available, the committee might want to examine it, given our concern for the victims of crime.
Yes. Apart from anything else, it would be useful to have some indication of the practices in other countries, so that we can learn from best practice.