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EU: Informal Meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council: Slovenia 24-25 January 2008

01 January 2008

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Conclusion of informal council meeting of justice and home affairs ministers: to strengthen legal safety and fundamental rights in an area of freedom, security and justice (link)

EU Interior Ministers discuss the Second-generation Schengen Information System and the Use of Passenger Name Record for Law Enforcement Purposes (link): "there was agreement that SIS II must be operational by September 2009 at the latest." Over "lunch" the Ministers also discuss the EU-PNR scheme and referred to the Draft Framework Decision on data protection in police matters which is still being discussed - a highly disputed measure which offer little protection to individual rights, see: Statewatch's Observatory on data protection in the EU and Observatory: EU surveillance of passengers (PNR)

EU Interior Ministers on Asylum and Future European Home Affairs Policy (link)

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