Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of whether Framework Decision 2002/465/JHA requires the competent authorities of member states to have discretion to establish joint investigation teams under that Framework Decision rather than under the Second Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, where that Protocol is available.
A full impact assessment has been conducted on Framework Decision 2002/465/JHA. Details of this assessment can be found in Command Paper 8897
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/326698/41670_Cm_8897_Accessible.pdf , published on 3 July 2014.
Framework Decision 2002/465/JHA does not specify that this measure must be used above other frameworks allowing for joint investigation teams. However, this is the only instrument that allows for a joint investigation team to be formed with every other Member State.