Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting JPSG
10 November 2026
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LIBE European Parliament
Follow its sittings00:07 - 00:44
Speaker 3
Yes, I like that gavel. Yes. Good morning, everybody and welcome back to our hearing, and we are going to move directly into the European Commission proposal on the revision of the Europol regulation. And it is my pleasure to welcome two important speakers. We will have Mr Olivier Onidi, who is the deputy general, director-general in charge of Schengen and Internal Security at DG HOME, European Commission, and we also have Mr Sébastien Moras, who is the head of staff of Europol.
00:44 - 01:17
Speaker 2
So before I give them the floor, just to remind delegates of the procedure for requesting the floor, members of national parliaments should use the speaking cards that are placed at their seats, while members of the European Parliament should raise their hand. And then, as yesterday, the floor will be given alternatively to two members of national parliaments and one member of the European Parliament, and once again, we'll be asking people to keep their questions, and then the replies also, to a maximum of 2 minutes. So Mr Onidi, the floor is yours for up to 10 minutes. Thank you.
01:17 - 03:20
Speaker 1
Thank you, Chair. Good morning to all of you and thank you for the invitation. In the interest of time, colleagues were great and prepared quite a comprehensive presentation for this agenda point. I will take the essence of it, and the presentation has been made available through, I think, your platform of sharing of documents, which will facilitate further exchange with all of you on this important subject. You remember our discussion in Nicosia where kind of highlighted, I guess, the major points of the so-called Europol reform.
Guiding principles were very clearly established, and I think you've been adamant in stressing the fact that we should build something which further provides the ground for successful operations and the value added as demonstrated by Europol over the last years. We should adapt the regulation in order to equip the agency with the capacity to face the new, somewhat more complex security environment without changing the nature of the agency. The agency remains an agency responsible for criminal investigations, essentially, and related aspects. And finally, we should also be adamant in not displacing the cursor beyond what the treaty provides, i.e. an agency that serves member states, and not an agency that would substitute the competences of member states, so no executive powers as such. We build the proposal around the three building blocks, the three major building blocks we had identified in our discussions with you in Nicosia.
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