Mr. David Fennell:

I would surmise that a strong motivation is bearing in mind the developments in relation to the European Public Prosecutor's Office, EPPO. I can go no further than that. I do not think it is coincidental that as the EPPO proposal is published another proposal is published in relation to Eurojust. As I stated earlier, there has been only one working group meeting in relation to Eurojust which I was unable to attend. However, I understand from my colleagues that a number of member states asked the reason for the pressing need for a Eurojust regulation at this time and what problem it would fix. A number of them also expressed the view that this was not fixing any problem of which they were aware. A number of people would probably share the view expressed now that the timing is not coincidental in that it follows in the wake of the EPPO proposal.