---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:05 PM Subject: EU Commission, on a supranational basis, may legislate in criminal law To: [email protected] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_of_freedom,_security_and_justice "That ruling set a precedent that *the Commission, on a supranational basis, may legislate in criminal law* – something never done before to outlined in treaties. So far though, the only other use has been the intellectual property rights directive<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_directive_on_criminal_measures_aimed_at_ensuring_the_enforcement_of_intellectual_property_rights> .[13]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_of_freedom,_security_and_justice#cite_note-E.21Sharp0507_Legal-12> Motions were tabled in the European Parliament against that legislation on the basis that criminal law should not be an EU competence, but was rejected at vote.[ 14]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_of_freedom,_security_and_justice#cite_note-Piracy_vote-13> However in October 2007 the Court of Justice ruled the Commission could not propose what the criminal sanctions could be, only that there must be some.[15]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_of_freedom,_security_and_justice#cite_note-EUO_Oct-14> The European Commission has listed seven offences<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_offence> that become European crimes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_crime>. The seven crimes announced by the Commission arecounterfeiting<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeiting> euro notes and coins; credit card and cheque fraud<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque_fraud> ; money laundering <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering>; people-trafficking <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People-trafficking>; computer hacking and virus attacks; corruption in the private sector; and marine pollution <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_pollution>. " -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens