The seven-step action programme
François Mitterrand proposed that the EC Member States:
- establish a common method for analysing drug addiction in Europe leading to the creation of a European drugs monitoring centre;
- harmonise their policies concerning drug addicts (particularly in the area of prevention);
- strengthen controls at external borders and develop co-ordination between the Member States involving all services responsible for public security;
- study the implementation at regional level of the 1988 UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and accelerate its ratification by all Member States;
- co-ordinate their policies regarding producer and transit countries and work together to fulfil requests for co-operation from these countries;
- define a European Community policy on the laundering of drug money in co-operation with the group of 15 countries created to help apply the declaration of the 1989 'Arche' Summit;
- designate, in each EC country and at the European Commission, an individual with authority to synthesise and reflect on concerns in the fight against drugs. These individuals would meet regularly and work closely with the group of co-ordinators created by the Rhodes European Council for the free circulation of people in the application of the Single Act.
