"For successful fight against terrorism, it's very important to reach a common understanding of the essence and manifestations of this criminal phenomenon and reflect it in an international agreement, paying attention to determining the mechanisms of joint antiterrorist activity," the minister said.
In his opinion, such an agreement is easier to work out in Europe than in the framework of the whole international community.
Chaika said groundwork the EU has, in particular, the definition of terrorism in the Council of Europe and the CIS could be used.
Besides, the important block of relations in the process of building a common space of freedom, security and justice is cooperation in the anticrime sphere on the basis of the Plan of Joint Actions on the fight against organized crime, Chaika noted.
"It seems necessary to constantly raise the efficiency of cooperation in the spheres of the fight against illegal drug trafficking, money laundering, slave trade and illegal migration," he said.
The minister believes that Russian experts in coordinated forms should take part in the development of EU standards.
In Chaika's words, exchange of legal experience between Russia and the EU is not movement in one direction. Such an exchange will contribute to perception of the EU's legal experience not only by Russia, but on the whole CIS space, including through the use in the development of model laws and recommendation legislative acts by the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, as well as when working out legal bases of functioning of the Eurasian Economic Community (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan) and the Common Economic Space (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine), said the minister.
As an example, Chaika cited the agreement about the status of the EurAsEC legislation bases, developed on Russia's initiative with account for the working experience of Europarliament. The signing of this agreement is scheduled for June 18 in Astana.
The minister noted the necessity to speed up the beginning of work of the Permanent Council for Russia-EU Partnership at the level of justice and interior ministers.
He believes that "this will make it possible to transfer the Russia-EU interaction to a new quality and hold constructive discussion of problems aimed at achieving specific results."
In his words, the priority tasks of the Permanent Council include elaboration of a concept of the space of freedom, security and justice and a plan of actions on its realization with the development, if necessary, of "road maps" to resolve the key issues.
Speaking about the necessity to think over organizational ensuring of Russia-EU cooperation in the building of a common economic space and the space of freedom, security and justice, Chaika noted that it's necessary, in particular, to intensify interaction of Russia with Eurojust, Europol, the European legal network on civil and trade affairs and other EU specialized bodies.
"Russia is ready for constructive interaction with partners in the European Union in the preparation and adoption of measures that could ensure a real breakthrough in the practical realization of agreements fixed in the documents of Russia-EU summits," Chaika concluded.
He recalled that the Russian Justice Ministry voiced an initiative to create under the Council of Europe aegis a common European register of normative acts.
"This initiative aims at contributing to a more efficient protection of rights and legal interests of individuals and legal entities in the Greater Europe, harmonization of legislation of European states and the formation of a common European legal space, implementation of European standards in the Council of Europe member states," Chaika said.
Besides, in his words, the creation of such a register will make it possible to ensure a wider access of citizens and companies to normative acts of European states and international organizations, to perfect legislation and law enforcement practice of European states, as well as to develop new international standards of both compulsory and recommendatory nature.
Chaika said the Council of Europe Secretariat works out possible ways to realize this idea, including the creation - as a pioneer project - of the legal data base in the field of anti-terrorism.
