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Statewatch Observatories on civil liberties in the EU |
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
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 EU-FBI: Telecommunications surveillance plan S.O.S.Europe: Statewatch Observatory on Surveillance
in Europe
Observatory on EU plans to counter protests
Observatory
on the exchange of data on passengers (PNR) with USA
Statewatch new Observatory: EU surveillance
of passengers (PNR)
Statewatch
launches: ASBOwatch
monitoring the use of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders throughout
the UK
Analysis, background documents and sections on: children, protestors,
"CRASBO's", general public order and extreme cases
(12.10.04)
"Terrorist"
lists: monitoring proscription, designation and asset-freezing
"Observatory" on CIA "rendition"
UK:
Telephone tapping figures, 1937 onwards
UK
legislation on civil liberties issues (from 1988 - ongoing)
EU:
Data protection in police and judicial matters
Observatories
on openness and secrecy in the EU
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
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
Observatory
on the EU Constitution
The
EU Constitution - all the drafts, commentaries and latest documents:
EU
Constitution
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.
For more details and subscription information see: SEMDOC - how to get access. It contains:
Legislative Observatory cotaining 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).
Register of "partially accessible" Council
documents.
Searchable bibliographic database of hard-copy
documents held by SEMDOC for the period 1976-2000. Now over 6,000
documents recorded and indexed.
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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