19/12/2002 (Agence Europe) - By following the line of its rapporteur Sergio Sousa Pinto (Portuguese Socialist) on 17 December, the European Parliament has rejected a Danish initiative proposing a Council decision on strengthening co-operation between Member States on the subject of the decision of revoking rights. The aim was to guarantee that this type of sanction was applied throughout Union territory to better combat organised crime. However, Mr Sousa Pinto regretted that Denmark was keen to propose that Member States were simply allowed to exchange detailed information about revoking rights, "which would not allow for any progress at all either in the fight against organised crime or in the application of prison sentences from which the interest in this initiative would have been completely reduced". Parliament was simply consulted on this proposal.