division_name: Business of the House (Lisbon Treaty) (No.2) &#8212; Lisbon Treaty (No.1) &#8212; (1st Allotted Day)
motion: <p class="" pid="c.173.3/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.173.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House approves the Government's policy towards the Treaty of Lisbon in respect of provisions concerning the following matters: fighting cross-border crime; justice; policing; human trafficking; and asylum and migration policy.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="c.185.0/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move amendment (a), to leave out from "House" to end, and to add instead thereof:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.185.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">"disapproves of the Government's policy towards the Treaty of Lisbon in respect of provisions concerning fighting cross-border crime, justice, policing, human trafficking and asylum and migration policy because the Treaty weakens the UK's ability to determine its own policy in these important fields, would bring to an end the intergovernmental nature of EU co-operation over policing and criminal justice, abolishes the safeguard of the national veto in almost all remaining areas in justice and home affairs matters and creates the possibility that the UK could be fined for refusing to participate in certain legislation in these areas; and notes that the European Scrutiny Committee, in its Third Report of Session 2007-08, HC 16-iii, paragraph 75, is "concerned that the interpretation of the red line to "protect UK civil and criminal justice" as only requiring control of the decision to opt in or not does not recognise the loss of protection that will occur every time jurisdiction is transferred from UK courts to jurisdiction by the European Court of Justice and the Commission.".'.</p>
  
  <p pid="c.226.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> Question put,</i> That the amendment be made:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="c.226.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> The House divided:</i> Ayes 167, Noes 360.</p>