Controls at borders: fight against counterfeit travel documents. Initiative Germany

The European Parliament adopted its report by Mr. William NEWTON-DUNN (EPP/ED, UK) concerning the Federal Republic of Germany's initiative on the improved exchange of information to combat counterfeit travel documents. The Parliament's main amendments are as follows: - the proposal should be for a Council Regulation and not a Decision (in order to obtain a legal basis and legal form appropriate to the priority objective of the measure), - various amendments seeking to integrate the proposed information exchange system concerning false travel documents into the European computerised image archiving system (FADO), instituted by the Council in 1998, once it is fully operational, to avoid having two parallel systems.�