Traduction de «Priority jurisdiction mechanism » (Anglais → Français) :

Together with a procedural mechanism and a priority rule, a list of criteria to be used by the Member States in choosing the leading jurisdiction should be the third element of a complete strategy to prevent and resolve conflicts of jurisdiction.

While admittedly the wording of certain articles of the Commission's proposal was confused and of uncertain application (for example the priority jurisdiction mechanism),the introduction of a register, the Commission's coordinating role, direct contacts between judicial authorities and the concept of liaison judges represented feasible and useful innovations ahead of the longoverdue adoption of a horizontal instrument for judicial cooperation to help combat organized crime.

The council provided the task group with a four-point work plan to develop recommendations for appropriate approaches to foster an environmentally sustainable aquaculture industry, to establish a priority setting mechanism for research and development for approval by ministers, to identify mutually agreeable initiatives in the area of technology transfer, training development and performance measurement and, finally, to identify mechanisms for resolving issues related to resource use that involve one or more ...[+++]jurisdictions and/or the aquaculture industry.

The Commission suggests two mechanisms which might help to settle conflicts of jurisdiction between Member States: coordination (a new body, or an existing organisation such as the Court of Justice or EUROJUST would decide which Member State had jurisdiction in each individual case, on the basis of predetermined priority criteria) and the establishment of rules of exclusive jurisdiction within the Union.

It also formally adopted the La Gomera Declaration on terrorism, which is reproduced below: La Gomera Declaration "THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, RECALLING the informal meeting of the Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs of the Member States, held in La Gomera on 14 October 1995, NOTES that terrorism: - constitutes a threat to democracy, to the free exercise of human rights and to economic and social development, from which no Member State of the European Union can be regarded as exempt; - has stepped up its activity, more specifically as a result of fundamentalist action; - is operating on a transnational scale, which cannot be dealt with effectively solely by means of isolated action and using each individual State's own resources ...[+++]; - is developing strategies and using methods of international organized crime; - might take advantage of any differences in legal treatment in different States to try to gain impunity; CONSIDERS that combating terrorism, one of the most serious forms of crime, has been established in the Treaty on European Union as a priority objective among the matters of common interest; DECLARES that in order to prevent and combat terrorist action effectively, there is a need for thorough coordination between Member States by way of improving the mechanism of police and judicial cooperation, through: - an increase in exchange of operational information about terrorist groups, to bring about a better knowledge of their methods of operating, in particular arms trafficking, financing and money laundering, - improvement of coordination and cooperation between judicial authorities so as to eliminate any risks of impunity; - the handing over to the judicial authorities with jurisdiction of those responsible for terrorist acts, to stand trial and serve any sentences imposed, by means of extradition, having regard to the provisions of international Treaties".