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Dear Mr. Moura,Thank you for your interest in the Madeleine McCann case.This dramatic case has however to be dealt with primarily by the national police and authorities. The European Commission has not competence to interfere with police enquiring work.However, I am pleased to inform you about two elements than can, in the future, be of help in such disappearance or abduction cases.1. the Commission adopted on 17 February 2007 a "DECISION on reserving the national numbering range beginning with '116' for harmonised numbers for harmonised services of social value" (attached for your convenience, in English and Swedish) which ask the Member States to reserve with their telecommunication authorities all 6-digit telephone numbers starting with "116" for social services. The decision already reserve one, the "116 000" for hotlines for missing and sexually exploited children. This number does not replace existing hotline numbers (110 in Belgium, 114 in Italy, etc.) but it will be a unique number that should be activated in all Member States. The implementation of that Decision is going quite fast, thanks to the European Federation for missing and sexually exploited children (now Missing Children Europe : http://www.childfocus.be/fr/index.php?language=en and http://www.childfocus.be/fr/activities_3.php#2, new site soon available). I do attach as well a brief press release giving you some indication on the progress status.2. the Commission is currently reflecting on how to generalise and implement on the entire Union territory an "Amber Alert"-like mechanism. France and Greece recently launched one such system. The Vice President Frattini, responsible for Justice, Freedom and Security, wrote in July to all Member States to prompt them to reflect on such a possibility. The Commission, on its side, is presently listing some ideas and guidelines for this.Please also see : http://www.alerte-enlevement.gouv.fr/, http://www.hamogelo.gr/, http://www.childfocus.be/fr/index.php?language=en, http://www.ceop.gov.uk/Yours sincerely,Patrick Trousson European Commission DG JLS/COffice LX46 1/125 Tel.: +32.2.296.58.03 E-mail: patrick.trousson@ec.europa.eu_________________________________________________ -----Original Message-----From: JLS FSJ EUROPA FEEDBACK Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 2:44 PMTo: TROUSSON Patrick (JLS)Cc: JLS ADONIS REGISTRATIONSubject: 912 - JLS Mailbox - Portuguese kidnaped children