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EU: Council of the European Union: documents regarding the work of the Standing Committee on operational cooperation on Internal Security (COSI)

01 February 2011

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EU: Council of the European Union: Standing Committee on operational cooperation on Internal Security (COSI):

- Tightening links between the external and internal aspects of EU security (pdf): Includes more function creep: "Enhancing the exchange of personal and strategic information and criminal intelligence between EU civilian crisis management missions and relevant EU agencies, namely Europol, Eurojust and Frontex"
- Report on the cooperation between JHA Agencies in 2010 (pdf)
- Draft Scorecard – Implementation of the JHA Agencies report (pdf): Including: "the European Commission initiated the setting up of an Information Mapping Project Team which will assess how information and criminal intelligence are exchanged in the field of EU internal security, focusing inter alia on communication channels used for the exchange of information and criminal intelligence, the flow of information between relevant actors, as well as databases and IT solutions used (The European Information Exchange Model, Brussels, 6 January 2010, 5046/10, JAI 5)."

As is well-known there is a big difference between "information" (which is hard and factual) and "intelligence" (which may be based on reliable information, suspicion, or uncorroborated evidence) and quite different rules need to be applied if "intelligence" is exchanged.

- COSI Project Group “Organised crime”: Terms of Reference (pdf)

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