A joint inspection corps not also responsible for surveillance could prove very expensive while offering no efficiency gains.

(g)on request from the Commission or of Member States develop common inspection methodologies and procedures.

19. Takes the view that a new legal basis is required for the establishment of a European Corps of Border Guards and calls, therefore, on the European Convention to debate this issue so that, in the medium term, the idea of a joint Corps of Border Guards may be implemented;

19. Takes the view that a new legal basis is required for the establishment of a European Corps of Border Guards and calls, therefore, on the Convention to debate this issue so that, in the medium term, the idea of a joint Corps of Border Guards may be implemented;

A common border police team could possibly be put together, as has been suggested in the Justice and Home Affairs Councils, but this would be a common body of people recruited in the same way that, for example, we recruit a common body of interpreters or officials in this House, that is to say, they would be Community officials bound by their own rules, with their own uniform and language system – which I can see is something you are concerned about – and which will surely have its own distinguishing marks and, most importantly, a code of conduct that will be common to all.

In order to ensure proper inspection of hunted wild game placed on the Community market, bodies of hunted animals and their viscera should be presented for official post-mortem inspection at a game-handling establishment.