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EU: Informal Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting, Prague, 15-16 January 2009

01 January 2009

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Home Affairs press release (pdf) Justice issues press release (pdf)

Programme (pdf). Documentation:

- Modern Technologies and Security (pdf) Ministers will discuss the contradictory demands of privacy, mobility (of people) and security. There is little new in this document - other than the possibility of setting up an advisory group of experts - for full background and implications see: The Shape of Things to Come - the EU Future Group by Tony Bunyan and the Observatory on "The Shape of Things to Come"

- Use of Modern Technologies in Border Control, Migration Management, and Asylum Policy (pdf). Again there is little new - see Shape of Things to Come above. What is new is the proposal that: "the check of biometric data in travel documents become a compulsory part of border checks, in view of the future system of automated checks at external borders". This would cover EU citizens and "nationals of third countries who data are not registered in VIS" (Visa Information System) - namely people entering from the visa-free "white list" of countries like the USA. Also the checking of EU citizens' biometric passports – which would probably entail EU citizens being fingerprinted as they cross external borders, including presumably between the UK and the Schengen states,

- SIS II (pdf): SIS II (Schengen Information System) is being discussed because the new database is way behind its planned launch date of September 2009 due to a "number of blocking bugs" still giving "problems".

- Rational Anti-Drug Policy (pdf)
- International Protection of Children (pdf)
- Programme of Czech Presidency in the Council of the European Union in the Area of Justice and Home Affairs (Detailed progamme, 28 pages, pdf)

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