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European Union - Tenth Report Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 15 March 2005. CONTENTS Terms of Reference Abstract Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Hague Programme—General Characteristics Legitimacy Consolidation and implementation Relationship with the Constitutional Treaty Vision or pragmatism? Chapter 3: Fundamental Rights Freedom versus security? The Fundamental Rights Agency Chapter 4: Asylum A Common European Asylum System A European Asylum Office Extra-territorial processing Chapter 5: Migration Chapter 6: Border Controls and The European Border Agency Chapter 7: Police Co-operation and the role of Europol Chapter 8: Criminal Law Approximation or mutual recognition? The protection of the rights of the defendant Judicial co-operation in criminal matters and the role of Eurojust (and the European Public Prosecutor) Mutual trust and the judiciary Evaluation Judicial protection in the ECJ Chapter 9: Civil Law Mutual recognition or approximation? The limits of EU competence Subsidiarity Family law Quality of EU legislation Relationship with international instruments Chapter 10: External Relations Chapter 11: Conclusions and Recommendations Scrutiny General principles Freedom and security The Fundamental Rights Agency Asylum—minimum standards A European Asylum Office Asylumextraterritorial processing Migration Border security The European Border Agency Police co-operation and the role of Europol Criminal law - approximation and mutual recognition The rights of the defendant Eurojust and the European Public Prosecutor Mutual trust and the judiciary Evaluation Judicial protection in the ECJ Civil law - justification, competence and subsidiarity Family law Quality of legislation in the civil law field - a common frame for contract Civil law - relationship with international instruments External relations - migration and asylum External relations - criminal law Recommendation for debate Appendix 1: Sub-Committee F (Home Affairs) Appendix 2: Call for Evidence Appendix 3: List of Witnesses Appendix 4: Glossary of Acronyms Appendix 5: Exchange of correspondence between the Chairman of the EU Select Committee and Caroline Flint, MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office Appendix 6: Other recent Reports from the Select Committee MINUTES OF EVIDENCE Wednesday 26 January 2005 Wednesday 9 February 2005 Written evidence ORAL EVIDENCE Home Office, Caroline Flint, MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Written evidence (printed as Appendix 5) 52 Oral evidence (26 January 2005) 1 Department for Constitutional Affairs, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Written evidence 13 Oral evidence (9 February 2005) 14 WRITTEN EVIDENCE Amnesty International 23 Association of Chief Police Officers (Scotland) (ACPOS) 25 European Commission, Directorate General of Justice, Freedom and Security 26 Europol 26 Professor Elspeth Guild 27 International Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA) 29 JUSTICE 39 Law Society 45 National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) 50 Dr Constantin Stefanou, Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London) 51 United National High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 53 Dr. Helen Xanthaki, Academic Director, Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), University of London 54 NOTE: Pages of the report are numbered in bold type; pages of evidence are numbered in ordinary type. References in the text of the report are as follows: Q refers to a question in oral evidence p refers to a page of written evidence

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