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EU: High Level Meeting on Prum Treaty

01 October 2006

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"A high level conference will be organised on 16 November 2006 in Vienna by Austrian and German authorities on the possible relevance and integration of the provisions of the Prum Treaty in the European Union framework" (from minutes of the Police Chiefs Task Force).

For background see: G6-G8-Prum: Behind closed doors - policy-making in secret intergovernmental and international fora and "Behind Closed Doors: the meeting of the G6 Interior Ministers at Heiligendamm": House of Lords EU Committee report. Informal Meeting of European Data Protection Authorities, Bonn, 27 July 2006: Opinion on the data protection aspects of the Prum Convention and Opinion of CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes.

The Prum Treaty was signed on 27 May 2005 by Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Austria - Italy has since indicated it wants to join: Prum Treaty - full-text (pdf)

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