For det andet er det nødvendigt at tage initiativer, der har til formål at begrænse forskelsbehandlingen som følge af den store forskel på erstatningsniveauet i de forskellige medlemsstater. Denne forskelsbehandling afhænger i praksis af, hvilken medlemsstat offeret bor i, eller hvilken medlemsstat offeret blev udsat for forbrydelsen i.
Mr President, in its opinion on the Green Paper on compensation to crime victims, the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market congratulates the Commission on the approach it has proposed and adopted and welcomes the definition of the three major objectives for possible action at Community level: firstly, the need to guarantee crime victims within the Union the possibility of obtaining state compensation, providing for a safety net for all Union residents; secondly, the need to adopt the necessary measures to limit the unfair effects that result from the great differences that currently exist between levels of compensation in the different Member States, which, in practice, vary according to the Member State of residence of the victim or the Member State in which they were the victims of the crime; and, thirdly, the need to facilitate cross-border victims' access to state compensation, ensuring that victims' access to compensation is not excessively dependent upon the place in the Union in which the crime was committed.