Brussels, 17/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - At the request of the Spanish government, the European Union added two banned separatist Basque parties and 13 members of the separatist Basque organisation ETA to its black list of organisations and persons linked to terrorism. The EU Council added to its list the ANV (Basque Nationalist Action) and the PCTV (Communist Party of the Basque Homelands). These two small formations of the radical Basque separatist left were declared beyond the law in September by the Spanish Supreme Court due to their links with Batasuna, the ETA political wing (for further information see EU Official Journal L 338 of 17 December 2008). On 16 December, the EU also formally adopted a decision aimed at strengthening the powers of Eurojust, the European Union's legal cooperation body, as well as a decision on extending the powers of the European judicial network in criminal matters. Political agreements had been made on these two proposals in July this y ear (EUROPE 9712). Finally, the member states meeting in Council adopted the multiannual table of installation expenses authorised by the C.SIS (situation 31 December 2007: €31,592,991.20) and its budget for installation and operation in 2009 (€2,525,000). The C-SIS, located in Strasbourg, is the core of the police database called the Schengen Information System (SIS). The C-SIS does not have the role of storing information but of serving as an intermediary in the exchange of information between national databases. (B.C./transl.jl)