The European Police College (Immunities and Privileges) Order 2004

PART I GENERAL

1.  This Order may be cited as the European Police College (Immunities and Privileges) Order 2004. It shall come into force on the date on which the Headquarters Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the European Police College(1) enters into force. This date shall be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.

2.  In this Order:

“the 1961 Convention Articles” means the Articles (being certain Articles of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations signed in 1961) which are set out in Schedule 1 to the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964(2);

“the Archives of CEPOL” means all records, correspondence, documents, manuscripts, photographs, films, recordings, computer programmes, video tapes, discs and data held in any other media belonging to or held by CEPOL and all information therein contained;

“CEPOL” means the European Police College;

“Council Decision” means Decision 2000/820/JHA of the Council of the European Union, as amended by Decision 2004/566/JHA and Decision 2004/567/JHA of the Council(3);

“Members of Staff” means the staff of the Secretariat of CEPOL set up pursuant to Article 4 of the Council Decision, other than locally recruited staff assigned to hourly rates of pay;

“Official Activities of CEPOL” means those activities carried out pursuant to Articles 6 and 7 of the Council Decision;

“the Premises of CEPOL” means the buildings or parts of buildings and the land ancillary thereto used for the Official Activities of CEPOL.

(1)

Cm. 6342.

(2)

1964 c. 81, as amended by section 2(2) and paragraph 4 of the Schedule to the Hong Kong Act 1985 (c. 15) and by Section 1(1) of the Arms Control and Disarmament (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1988 (c. 2).

(3)

OJ No L 336, 30.12.2000, p1 amended by OJ No L 251, 27.07.2004, p19, OJ No L 251, 27.07.2004, p20.