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EU: Council of the European Union: Dublin II, EURODAC: LEA access and SIS: Stolen vehicles

27 July 2012

- DUBLIN II: State of play: Council position: Proposal for a Regulation establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person (Recast) [First reading] (12746-rev-2-12, 113 pages, pdf)

"At its meeting of 18 July 2012, the Committee of Permanent Representatives endorsed by a sufficient majority of delegations the text of the recast of the draft Dublin Regulation"

See also previous documents: As above (115 pages, 12746-rev-1-12, pdf) and As above (115 pages, 12746-12, pdf)

- EURODAC (asylum applicants' fingerprint database): Law enforcement agencies access: Amended proposal for a Regulation on the establishment of 'EURODAC' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No […/…] (establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person) and to request comparisons with EURODAC data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes and amending Regulation (EU) No 1077/2011 establishing a European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (Recast version) (12207-12, 116 pages, pdf).

Includes 109 Member State reservations/comments.

- SIS: Schengen Information System: Stolen vehicles statistics: Implementation of Article 102A of the Convention Implementing the Schengen
Agreement during the year 2011 - Draft report to be submitted to the European Parliament in accordance with Art. 102A(4) of the Convention Implementing the Schengen Agreement (CISA) (pdf)

Data on motor vehicles, trailers and caravans which have been stolen, misappropriated or lost, and registration certificates for vehicles and number plates:

"The only article in the CISA [Convention Implementing the Schengen Agreement] providing for an obligation to record every transmission is Article 103. The reference to Article 103 – the recording of every transmission for purposes of checking whether the search is admissible or not – is interesting since these records may provide for the statistical information on the use of the data." In total, 8,235,658 searches were carried out giving 7,331 "hits" in 14 EU states.