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01 April 2011

EU-USA: Safe Harbor: Why EU data needs 'protecting' from US law (2)

01 April 2011

UK: Over the weekend of Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th April, police in London questioned the management of two seperate venues due to host benefit gigs for political campaigns (2)

01 April 2011

EU: SCHENGEN: France and Italy propose reform of EU border rules (euobserver, link) and see: Full-text of letter to the Council and Commission (French, pdf) (1)

01 April 2011

EU: European Investigation Order (EIO): Proposed Directive regarding the European Investigation Order in criminal matters - Follow-up document of the meetings of the Working Party in February, March and April 2011

01 April 2011

EU-PNR: Directive on the use of Passenger Name Record data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime - The possible inclusion of intra-EU flights

01 April 2011

EU: Documents regarding proposals on the right to information in criminal proceedings

01 April 2011

EU: Multicolumn document: Draft Decision on the list of travel documents entitling the holder to cross the external borders and which may be endorsed with a visa and on setting up a mechanism for establishing this list

01 April 2011

EU: FRONTEX: Multicolumn document on the Trilogue discussions between the Council and the European Parliament: Proposal for a Regulation amending the Regulation establishing FRONTEX

01 April 2011

ECJ: European Court of Justice judgment: Italy told it cannot send a person to prison because they are unable to remove them from the country (2)

01 April 2011

EU: Historical documents: EU-USA: TFTP/SWIFT Agreement (2)

01 April 2011

EU: MANDATORY DATA RETENTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Council of the European Union: Report from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament Evaluation report on the Data Retention Directive

22 March 2011

UK: Protection of Freedoms Bill provides long-awaited reform of Labour's data retention regime

Thousands of innocent people are to be removed from the UK national DNA database, but alarmingly their records will still be held on the Police National Computer

Databases Biometrics Law Privacy Policing UK European Convention on Human Rights

21 March 2011

Netherlands-USA: SWIFT data and MLA treaty

Civil liberties Law Terrorism Netherlands USA

10 March 2011

Amending the Regulation on public access to EU documents - the state of play - an "institutional impasse"

The question is how did the "institutional impasse" come about?

Law Secrecy and transparency EU

04 March 2011

Proposed Commission changes to Regulation on access to documents fails to meet Lisbon Treaty commitments

Law Secrecy and transparency EU

01 March 2011

GREECE: These hunger strikers are the martyrs of Greece - Asylum seekers willing to die in the face of expulsion after shame and exploitation bear witness to a higher truth than life

01 March 2011

EU: Commission accused of power-grab under new EU rules

01 March 2011

EU-PNR SCHEME: UK seeking to extend Commission proposal to cover intra-EU flights from the start

01 March 2011

Frontex, Italy and North Africa: a brief analysis of the EU's and Member States' responses to the wave of protest sweeping North Africa and the Middle East

01 March 2011

EU-COE-ECHR ACCESSION: European Commission: "Partially accessible version": Recommendation for a Council decision to negotiate accession to the European Convention on Human Rights

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