ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to shed light on the structure and modus operandi of the Lyon Group and how its meetings are organized. It also try to understand how the work of its experts is disseminated and fed back into the most visible G8 structures, namely the meetings of the G8 Interior and Justice Ministers and the summits of Heads of State and Government. The Lyon Group should include 'representatives of agencies directly involved in policing, customs and immigration enforcement, legal experts, and foreign policy specialists'. The Lyon Group's framework is particularly flexible, making it easy for the participants to meet together. Dialogue, as well as disagreement, is therefore both types of interplay that strengthen the relationship between them. At the Lyon Group meeting in Washington in April 1997, the reports from the Firearms and High-Tech Crime Subgroups thus recommended that the Heads of State and Government should reserve a part of their statement for the issues they covered.
