*   and everything.
*
*   At the first meeting of the new Council of Justice and Home Affairs
*   Ministers in Brussels on 29-30 November 1993 they adopted the following
*   Resolution on "the interception of telecommunications" which speaks for
*   itself and reproduced here in full:
*
#   CONFIDENTIAL MEMO
#
#   "COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON THE INTERCEPTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS"
#
#   The Council:
#
#   1) calls upon the expert group to compare the requirements of the Member
#      States of the Union with those of the FBI;
#
#   2) agrees that the requirements of the Member States of the Union will b
e
#      conveyed to the third countries which attended the FBI meeting in
#      Quantico and were mentioned in the memorandum approved by the Ministe
rs
#      at their meeting in Copenhagen (Sweden, Norway, Finland [countrie
s
#      applying for accession to the European Communities], the USA and
#      Canada), in order to avoid a discussion based solely on the
#      requirements of the FBI;
#
#   3) approves for practical reasons the extension to Hong Kong, Australia
#      and New Zealand (which attended the FBI seminar) of the decision on
#      co-operation with third countries which was taken at the Ministerial
#      meeting in Copenhagen'
[
The whole world, not just EU...Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong...
]
#   4) hereby decides tha

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