Report on the Security Situation in the Czech Republic in 1999
(in comparison with 1998)

3.1.5. Inter-ministerial Co-operation
Good co-operation between the ministries and other state and local administration authorities concerned is essential to deal with internal security problems, taking the form of task force groups, committees, etc. They include
- The Ministry of Interior committee for preparation and implementation of the Czech Government policies aimed at integration of foreigners and development of good relations among communities,
- the Section for foreigners'rights of the Human Rights Council of the Czech Government Office,
- the Task Force Group “Justice and the Interior” for integration of the Czech Republic to the EU,
- the Task Force Group for Schengen co-operation including the free movement of persons,
- the Joint Inter-ministerial Committee for border crossings (the establishing of border crossings, changes to their nature, and their closing),
- the Committee for the revisions and amendment of criminal law regulations and related regulations (sub-committee)
- the Task Force Group for Schengen co-operation
- the Advisory Committee for an Integrated Protection System for the valuable articles of our cultural heritage,
- the Social Prevention Committee,
- the Consulting Group for serious economic crime,
- the Standing Working Committee for administrative law under the Government's Legislative Council,
- the Association of Czech Lawyers for the protection of the European's Community Financial Interest,
- the Task Force Group for the approximation of Czech law with EC law - since 1994,
- the “Justice and the Interior” Task Force Group for the Czech Republic's accession to the EU,
- “the Public Administration” Task Force Group, whose work is aimed at ensuring a strategic approach for the Czech Republic's full membership of the EU,
- the Task Force Group for Schengen co-operation, with activities aimed at updating the visa process and the clearing of persons at the state borders,
- the Task Force Group for implementation of the central personification of machine readable documents project,
- the “Transport” Task Force Group, whose activities are aimed at preparations for the Czech Republic's accession to the EU,
- the Committee on the issue of preventative therapies (particularly for alcoholism, drug addiction, and sexual deviancy),
- the Committee for Civil Aviation Safety,
- the Inter-ministerial Crisis Board,74)
- the Inter-ministerial Committee for fighting intellectual property rights crime,75)
- the Consulting Groups for individual aspects of organised crime (organised crime, money laundering, terrorism, offensive methods for police and intelligence work, criminal groups, the ethnic element in organised crime, illegal migration, drugs, environmental crime),
- the Inter-ministerial Committee for the Roma Community issues,
- the Inter-ministerial Committee for railway transport safety (dealt especially with the attacks of night express trains by assaulting groups, mainly sleeping cars,
- the work continued in the Republican Crime Prevention Committee, the Inter-ministerial Anti-Drug Committee, the Co-ordination Group for harmonising individual bodies'approaches to tackling the causes of social-pathological phenomena among young people and the Co-ordination Committee for the protection and observation of intellectual property rights.
There were a range of bilateral talks and agreements on current problems (The National Security Bureau, The Office for International Relations and Information, the Czech Intelligence Service, the Czech National Bank, the Inspection for Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances, of the Ministry of Health, the Prison Service, the Licensing Administration, the Hallmark Office, the Czech Commercial Inspection, the State Nuclear Safety Office, etc.).
3. Internal Security Policy
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