Brussels, 28/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, the JHA Council formalised the agreement reached at the meeting in Saint Jacques de Compostelle on a global plan against illegal immigration. The Fifteen are now to work on visas, information exchange, border controls, readmission, on the basis of new Commission proposals (EUROPE of 23 February, p.8). The Council allowed for a political agreement to emerge on Europol's participation in joint investigating teams and the possibility for Europol to ask a Member State to initiate an investigation. It adopted the organisation's budget for 2002 (51.6 million euro, thus 3 million more than planned for its anti-terrorism task force). The process for amending the Europol Convention was also debated (we shall return to this tomorrow). The Council also formally took the decision to move from the provisional co-operation organisation of European prosecutors, pro-Eurojust to the definitive Eurojust. This is confirmation of the political agreement reached at the end of last year. The final act should come within two months, the time it takes for the definitive members of Eurojust to be appointed. The Fifteen confirmed the agreement reached at the informal Council on the creation of a the Eurodac file of fingerprints of asylum-seekers (EUROPE of 15 February, p.7). They also decided to provide a provisional headquarters to the European Police College, which will be located in Denmark while waiting for a final decision, and which may now finally start work, Minister Rajoy rejoiced.