Cecilia Malmström, Commissioner for Home Affairs concluded the above statement with: “ I encourage all relevant actors to take their responsibility to implement these actions and thereby to strengthen EU security"

Supply chain security is becoming increasingly focused on the prevention of crime. This is evident from the emphasis on crime prevention in the attached EU internal security strategy documents.

The newsletter discusses and provides links to documents entitled “EU Internal Security Strategy in Action” that can be downloaded at: http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/malmstrom/archive/internal_security_strategy_in_action_en.pdf and “Council Conclusions on the creation and implementation of a EU policy cycle for organised and serious international crime” that can be downloaded at: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/jha/117583.pdf

The newsletter also provides an overview (c) of the OCTA Organised Crime Threat Assesment document (2009). This is an assessment of current and expected trends in organised crime affecting the EU and its citizens. Based on analysis Europol assess that the most significant criminal sectors are drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings, illegal immigration, fraud, counterfeiting and money laundering. The OCTA report can be downloaded at: http://www.ipep.info/?do=viewnieuws&id=176&PHPSESSID=a7642f4b12a52b4ad53d2c1d839b01f5

The final section in this issue of the newsletter reports on police in Spain and Thailand having arrested 10 people suspected of operating a counterfeiting network that provided fake European passports to terrorist groups linked to Al Qaeda in order to smooth their entry into Western countries.

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