27 January 2023
To the Chair(s) of the committee(s) concerned
Subject: Invitation to the 12
th
meeting of the JPSG on Europol on 26
–
27 March 2023
Dear Chair,
Within the framework provided by Article 51 of the Europol Regulation (EU) 2016/794, we are
pleased to invite you to the
12th Meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group (JPSG) on
Europol,
which will take place
on 26 and 27 March 2023 at the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) in
Stockholm.
The meeting will be held in person only.
The meeting will tackle a number of issues directly arising from the JPSG’s prerogatives according to
Article 51 of the Europol Regulation, including presentations by Ms Catherine DE BOLLE, Europol
Executive Director, Mr Jérôme BONET, Chairperson of the Europol Management Board and Mr
Wojciech WIEWIÓROWSKI, the European Data Protection Supervisor. During the meeting, there
will also be keynote interventions by Ms Ylva JOHANSSON, European Commissioner for Home
Affairs, and Mr Gunnar STRÖMMER, Minister for Justice of Sweden. Furthermore, the draft agenda
includes two thematic debates, on
Europol’s operational support to member states – with a special
focus on the concept of High Value Targets/Operational Task Force (HVT/OTF)
and on
the fight
against trafficking in human beings.
Written questions to Europol
According to Article 4.2 of the JPSG Rules of Procedure, we kindly draw your attention to the right to
address oral and written questions to Europol. Please find attached the Guide for Members on JPSG
Written and Oral questions, explaining the procedure for submitting questions.
In order for Europol to prepare replies in time for the meeting, members/delegations wishing to submit
written questions are kindly requested to send them to the JPSG Co-Chairs by
8 February at the
latest.
General aspects
We would like to recall that your Parliament/Chamber can be represented by up to four members in
the JPSG (in the case of bicameral parliaments each Chamber with up to two members each).
Members and their delegations will be asked to register for the meeting.
According to Article 4.3 of the JSPG Rules of Procedure, the working languages of the JPSG are
English and French, therefore we would like to ask the delegations to submit all written questions,
written comments or contributions in one of these two languages. Please send them to the JPSG
Secretariat
and the Swedish Parliament
All documents submitted by Europol for the meeting in line with Article 51.3 of the Europol
Regulation, as well as all contributions by the delegations to the JPSG and other relevant documents
will be published on the
IPEX JPSG website
ahead of the meeting and distributed to delegations by
email.
Further information and additional documents will be forwarded in due course to your Parliament's
services.
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