G. whereas those involved in the ongoing efforts to secure justice for Robert McCartney have been subject to a recent whispering campaign seeking to intimidate and to undermine the credibility of their case,

I therefore believe it is important to use the reform of the Conventions on Drugs to: 1 – look into decriminalising the consumption of some drugs and legalising them; 2 – move towards drawing up rational prevention policies based on scientific knowledge of each drug and not on the emotional and radical approach which, by treating all drugs in the same way, ultimately removes credibility from preventive action; 3 – boost the development of a damage reduction policy that takes account of the positive results achieved in the pilot experiments run in Berne and Liverpool, which involved administering ...[+++], under medical control, opiates to patients with a long history of failed treatment. These results include a fall in the crime rate, in the number of overdoses and in the number of cases of HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis B and C transmitted.

15. Advocates setting up by the end of 2002 a 'European Legal Institute' in which legal policy-makers, the administrative authorities, the judiciary and those responsible for applying the law cooperate on a scientific basis in the drawing-up of the principles of the abovementioned reforms;

How can police powers be different from region to region without bringing the administration of justice into disrepute?

That day parole could be granted to some people after one sixth of a sentence seems to some disrespectful of our justice system; it leads to injustice and clearly does not recognize the realities of the victims.