On Thursday 19 May the European Parliament will vote on the European Commission’s proposal to amend the mandate of the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, Eurojust, so that it can collect and store evidence on war crimes (see EUROPE 12938/9). At the opening of the plenary session on 18 May, MEPs approved the use of the urgency procedure.
The Council has already adopted its position (see EUROPE 12947/1) and had called for a rapid adoption in the European Parliament. The chair of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Juan Fernando López Aguilar (S&D, Spain), asked his colleagues to approve the urgency procedure and to approve the regulation “so that we show that when it's needed, we may achieve concrete results to fight impunity of war crimes”. (Original version in French by Léa Marchal)