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Europol: The Council of the European Union is planning to replace the Europol Convention with a Council Decision

01 April 2006

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The Council of the European Union (25 governments) is planning to replace the Europol Convention - which had to be ratified by all national parliaments - with a Council Decision (and to turn it into an EU agency). The replacement of the Convention by a Decision would circumvent national parliaments, including for future amendments.

Europol : the way forward towards more efficiency and accountability- draft Council conclusions

Chairman's Summary of the High Level Conference on the Future of Europol (23 and 24 February 2006) This includes the consensual positions that: "ways should be found to enable Europol to exchange information also with countries that do not have the same data protection standards as those that are applicable within the European Union" "the present legal framework allows for sufficient parliamentary control."

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments:

"In other words, data protection should be abandoned so that countries like the USA can get whatever information or intelligence they want and use it as they want without fundamental safeguards. As to "parliamentary control", this is non-existent in practice. The Council is alone in thinking the existing framework for accountability is "sufficient"".

Europol Annual Report for 2005 (pdf)

Europol Work Programme for 2007

Europol Budget for 2007so

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