Fight against terrorism: processing and protection of personal data in the framework of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters. Framework Decision

The Austrian Presidency informed the Council of the state of play of discussion on this draft Framework Decision on the protection of personal data. The following issues have been debated:

• whether both police and judicial cooperation should be included in the scope of the draft Framework Decision;
• the question of extending the scope to law enforcement agencies other than the police;
• the question of whether the Framework Decision should also cover information which is transmitted to third States;

the question of whether the scope of the Framework Decision should be confined to the cross-border transmission of information and the processing of data thus transmitted or whether it should – as envisaged in the Commission proposal – also encompass data gathered and used in a purely domestic context.