AMENDMENTS 50 - 326 - Draft report Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings, and on enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes and amending Regulation (EU) 2016/794

Version initale

(3) A “European Migrant Smuggling Centre” was created in 2016 by the Management Board of Europol in accordance with Article 11(1), point (s), of Regulation (EU) 2016/794 as such a Union centre of specialised expertise. It has continuously evolved since its inception and has expanded its range of activities in order to provide the best support to the Member States as a dynamic platform for operational cooperation, the exchange of information, and coordination between the Member States and partners engaged in the fight against migrant smuggling and the trafficking in human beings. The increases in irregular arrivals in the Union and in unauthorised movements within the Union, the rapid adaptability of criminal organised groups, the development of new modi operandi and sophisticated methods urgently require a significant reinforcement of the role of Europol’s Union centre of specialised expertise for combating migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings by establishing it as a permanent structure within Europol and by strengthening the level of its engagement in supporting the Member States in the prevention and combating of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings. Its name should be “European Centre Against Migrant Smuggling”.

Amendement

(3) A “European Migrant Smuggling Centre” was created in 2016 by the Management Board of Europol in accordance with Article 11(1), point (s), of Regulation (EU) 2016/794 as such a Union centre of specialised expertise. It has continuously evolved since its inception and has expanded its range of activities in order to provide the best support to the Member States as a dynamic platform for operational cooperation, the exchange of information, and coordination between the Member States and partners engaged in the fight against migrant smuggling and the trafficking in human beings. The rapid adaptability of criminal organised groups, the development of new modi operandi and sophisticated methods urgently require a significant reinforcement of the role of Europol’s Union centre of specialised expertise for combating migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings by establishing it as a permanent structure within Europol and by strengthening the level of its engagement in supporting the Member States in the prevention and combating of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings. Its name should be “European Centre Against Migrant Smuggling”.