Further to the Commission’s 2010 Opinion, Albania needs to meet the following key priorities for the opening of accession negotiations. Albania will need to 1) continue to implement public administration reform with a view to enhancing professionalism and depoliticisation of public administration; 2) take further action to reinforce the independence, efficiency and accountability of judicial institutions; 3) make further determined efforts in the fight against corruption, including towards establishing a solid track record of proactive investigations, prosecutions and convictions; 4) make further determined efforts in the fight against organised crime, including towards establishing a solid track record of proactive investigations, prose ...[+++]cutions and convictions; 5) take effective measures to reinforce the protection of human rights, including of Roma, and anti-discrimination policies, as well as implement property rights.

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32006D0618 - EN - 2006/618/EC: Council Decision of 24 July 2006 on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women And Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime concerning the provisions of the Protocol, in so far as the provisions of this Protocol fall within the scope of Articles 179 and 181a of the Treaty establishing the European Community - COUNCIL DECISION // (2006/618/EC) // PROTOCOL // to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Pe ...[+++]rsons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime // Declaration concerning the competence of the European Community with regard to matters governed by the protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women And Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32006D0619 - EN - 2006/619/EC: Council Decision of 24 July 2006 on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women And Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime concerning the provisions of the Protocol, in so far as the provisions of the Protocol fall within the scope of Part III, Title IV of the Treaty establishing the European Community - COUNCIL DECISION // (2006/619/EC) // PROTOCOL // to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially W ...[+++]omen and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime // Declaration concerning the competence of the European Community with regard to matters governed by the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women And Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime

A number of specific measures will need to be taken if vehicle crime with an international dimension is to be combated effectively,

A number of specific measures will need to be taken if vehicle crime with an international dimension is to be combated effectively,

(18) RECOGNISES that, when analysing problems and defining programmes as well as implementing prevention measures, several Member States, in accordance with their national law, provide for the possibility that law enforcement agencies and judicial authorities, the social groups concerned, tradesmen and civil administration bodies (at both local and regional level) confer on a regular basis (examples of this are the 'crime prevention boards` which exist in a number of Member States, and the Netherlands 'trilateral commissions`); there ...[+++]fore, Member States are encouraged to set up comparable structures at national, regional and local level, where appropriate and in accordance with their legal systems and traditions, to discuss and study questions of prevention, in particular the prevention of organised crime, and to draw up proposals to promote prevention;