JPSG on Europol meeting: Bucharest, 24-25 February

Meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group (JPSG) on Europol is to take place on 24 and 25 February in Bucharest, in the context of parliamentary dimension of the Romanian Presidency of the EU Council.

Meeting - co-chaired by Oana Florea, Head of Romanian delegation to JPSG Europol and Claude Moraes, Chair of European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) - is attended by parliamentary delegations from all EU Member States and European Parliament, states a release from Romanian Chamber of Deputies, sent on Thursday to AGERPRES.

Attending and taking the floor at the event, an occasion for debates on various topics regarding functioning of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), will be key-representatives of Europol: Catherine De Bolle (Executive Director), Victor Wili Apreutesei (President of the Board ) and Wil van Gemert (Deputy Director, Operations Department). Other key-note speakers will be Julian King (Commissioner for Security Union), alongside representatives of the European bodies in charge of personal data protection, among whom Francois Pellegrini (President of the Cooperation Board), Giovanni Buttarelli (European Data Protection Supervisor, via teleconference) and Wojciech Wiewiorowski (Assistant Supervisor at European Data Protection Supervisor).

On the first day, there will be two preparatory meetings: one of JPSG Europol Presidential Troika made up of heads of delegations of current, previous and next presidency parliaments (Romanian, Austrian and Finnish) and of the European Parliament, and the other of the working group set up in view of establishing ways of participation of Danish Parliament in JPSG meetings.

Second day of the meeting will comprise presentations and debates on Europol structures' activities for September 2018 - February 2019 period, in particular on specific fields of action of Europol - European Centre of combating cybercrime, Centre of information on travels, respectively, a structure that is to be fathered this year, source say. On this occasion, parliamentarians and members of the delegations will address questions to Europol officials.

Meeting also aims to set procedure for nominating future representative of JPSG to meetings of Europol's Board, considering that term of current representative Tsvetan Tsvetanov expires on 25 February 2019.

Source:Romania2019.eu