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Statewatch Observatories on civil liberties in the EU |
EU: Targeted
issues:
- Observatory:
EU Internal
Security Strategy
- Observatory: Regulation
on access to EU documents: 2008 - 2011
- Observatory: European
Investigation Order
- Observatory: EU-PNR
(Passenger Name Record)
- Observatory: UK:
Government's Civil Liberties Programme
- Observatory: EU-USA
general agreement on data protection and the exchange of personal
data
- Observatory: European
Security Research Programme (ESRP)
- Observatory: EU:
Reactions to protests
- Observatory: The
surveillance of telecommunications in the EU
- Observatory: IT
Systems and Information Exchange for Police and Judicial Cooperation
in the European Union
- Observatory: FRONTEX
Statewatch launches unique new Observatory:
Proceedings of the Justice and Home Affairs Council, 1993-2011
and ongoing
The Observatory lists the Agendas, "A" and "B"
points, press releases, and minutes/"outcomes" (known
as outcome of proceedings, or OP) of the Council of the European
Union's Justice and Home Affairs Council meetings from 1993 (when
it was created) to the present.
Observatory: Council
of the European Union: Policymaking through Council "Conclusions"
FOI: Freedom of Information
and Access to EU documents: 1992-ongoing
Statewatch
Observatory on EU asylum and immigration: the EU summit
(European Council) in Seville adopted far-reaching EU policies
regarding illegal immigration, with potential huge impact on
human rights, asylum-seekers and developing countries
The
EU Constitution and the Lisbon Treaty
The
"Stockholm programme" - "The Shape of Things to
Come"
Observatory
on rendition: The use of European countries by the CIA for the
transport and illegal detention of prisoners: includes: Reports from
the European Parliament, Council of Europe, and NGOs - Amnesty
International, Human Rights Watch, Redress, Cageprisoners and
most of the documents submitted to the European Parliament inquiry.
Observatory:
EU: Reactions to protests
Observatory
on the exchange of data on passengers (PNR) with USA
Statewatch Observatory:
EU
surveillance of passengers (PNR)
ASBOwatch
monitoring the use of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders throughout
the UK
Analysis, background documents and sections on: children, protectors,
"CRASBO's", general public order and extreme cases
"Terrorist"
lists: monitoring proscription, designation and asset-freezing
UK:
Telephone tapping figures, 1937 onwards
UK
legislation on civil liberties issues (from 1988 - ongoing)
EU:
Data protection in police and judicial matters (2005-2008 and
2011-ongoing)
The surveillance of telecommunications
in the EU (from 2004 and ongoing)
Archived Observatories
The EU Constitution - all the drafts,
commentaries and latest documents: EU
Constitution/Lisbon Treaty
Statewatch
Observatory in defence of freedom and democracy - new laws and practices affecting civil liberties
and rights in the EU, UK and US after 11 September
S.O.S.Europe: Statewatch Observatory
on Surveillance in Europe: 2001-2006
EU-FBI: Telecommunications surveillance plan
Observatories
on openness and secrecy in the EU
Regulation
on access to EU documents: 2008-2011: Updated: Following the Commissions's proposals
to amend Regulation 1049/2001 with full documentation.
Freedom
of Information in the EU:
Statewatch site with all the background news and documents on
access to documents plus a new Observatory on case law
Statewatch
Observatory on EU Freedom of Information - Case Law: Observatory contains
summaries and links to the full-text of court decisions on access
to EU documents (1995-2001). Case
law 2001-2011
(pdf)
- archived
Observatories
Secret Europe: Full background documentation and analysis
on access to EU documents, openness & secrecy in the EU.
Including "Essays
for an Open Europe" and the ongoing "Call
for an Open Europe"
Observatory
on adoption of the new Regulation on access to EU documents: Statewatch Observatory
on the adoption of the new Regulation on access to EU documents:
all the documentation from the Council of the European Union,
the European Parliament and the European Commission leading to
the new Regulation on citizens' access to EU documents.
Observatories
on justice and home affairs (SEMDOC)
SEMDOC (Statewatch European Monitoring and Documentation Centre,
launched in 1997). This is a website devoted to justice and home
affairs and civil liberties in the European Union and carries
comprehensive full-text documentation and analyses. It is a subscriber
site with a small annual charge. It also includes the monthly
Statewatch European Monitor, a dedicated publication covering
all developments in the subject area.
Access SEMDOC and SEMDOC "e-library" archive (1976-2000). It contains:
Legislative Observatory containing text, background and status
of every measures adopted, proposed or forthcoming under the
justice and home affairs. It also covers international JHA treaties,
case law and other relevant proposals from the 'mainstream' EC
treaty. There is also an archive containing the text and status
of all binding JHA measures adopted during the Maastricht period
(Nov 1993-April 1999).
The full justice and home affairs acquis,
which covers every JHA text adopted under the Amsterdam Treaty
(1999-ongoing) and Maastricht Treaty (1993-1999, amended by Amsterdam)
and the TREVI framework (intergovernmental cooperation from 1976-1993)
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