1. Working group, statistics on crime and criminal justice, 1-2 March 2007
Proposal for Decision of the European Parliament and Council on the Community Statistical
Programme 1

2. Title IV Visas, asylum, immigration and
Working group, statistics on crime and criminal justice, 1-2 March 2007
Title IV
Visas, asylum, immigration and
other policies related to free movement of persons
Statistics on migration and asylum, and on crime and criminal justice will develop to meet the evolving needs for statistics to support the Commission's Action Plan to implement the Hague programme on Justice, Freedom and Security issues.
This Action Plan includes proposals for the management of migration flows, the social and economic integration of migrants, border controls, asylum and strengthening security through common action against crime, particularly organised crime.
Substantial increases will be necessary in the availability and quality of statistics to support these measures. 1

3. Working group, statistics on crime and criminal justice, 1-2 March 2007
Current situation
Crime statistics will be established in accordance with the EU Action Plan on developing a coherent and comprehensive framework to measure crime and criminal justice. The feasibility and advisability of introducing a legal basis for these statistics will be explored.
In recognition of the wide differences in national administrative and statistical systems for migration and asylum and for crime and criminal justice, measures to improve the comparability of statistics will concentrate on the harmonisation of statistical outputs rather than on the introduction of common data sources and procedures. However, in some cases (such as for statistics on organised crime) it may be necessary to develop new data sources. 1

4. (From) Main initiatives 2008-2012
Working group, statistics on crime and criminal justice, 1-2 March 2007
(From) Main initiatives
Community statistics on crime (including organised crime), victimisation and criminal justice shall be introduced, and the comparability of this information shall be improved, such as through the development and possible implementation of a common EU module on victimisation. 1