Brussels, 19/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - In Strasbourg on Tuesday 17 June, MEPs adopted, by 619 votes to 21, with 41 abstentions, the report by Agustin Diaz de Mera (EPP-ED, Spain) on the exchange of information from criminal records. Under the terms of the draft framework decision, if a national of a member state is found guilty of a crime in another member state, this latter state must send certain information from his/her criminal record to the state of nationality as quickly as possible. The European Parliament civil liberties committee gave the report its backing at the end of May (see EUROPE 9674). The Commission recently adopted a proposal for a Council decision on setting up a system of information on criminal records (se EUROPE 9672). (B.C./transl.rt)