Police cooperation: lawful interception of telecommunications in relation to new technologies

OBJECTIVE: to make certain technical revisions to the Council resolution of 17 January 1995 on legal interception of telecommunications. CONTENT: based on the premise that new information technologies are in a state of permanent development, this draft Council resolution proposes a series of measures to extend the provisions of the Council Resolution of 17 January 1995 on the legal interception of telecommunications to cover new forms of telecommunications based on new information technologies, in particular Internet communications (for example via E-mail) and satellite communications. The draft resolution is hence composed of an explanatory annex of subsequent amendments applicable to communications using the new technologies. The draft resolution also makes provision for the 1995 resolution to apply to new, future telecommunications technologies currently being developed.�