Brussels, 02/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Justice and Home Affairs Council made progress on Thursday on exchanges of information on criminal sentences. Ministers approved the broad outlines of the proposal presented in mid-October by the European Commission, but have still to agree on the exact information to be transmitted and how the requests will be formulated (see EUROPE of 14 October).
Under Thursday's agreement, each Member State must be informed at once if one of its nationals is...