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EU: Council of the European Union: JHA Limite documents: Entry-Exit, Network security, DP Regulation, Internal Security Strategy, FOP and Resettlement of refugees

23 September 2014

• EU: planned Entry-Exit system recording the travel details of everyone entering and leaving the EU: Access to this personal data by law enforcement agencies. Member state answers to questionnaire summarised: Document no 13225-14 (Limite, pdf) see also 13680-14, (Limite, pdf) and 10720-14, (Limite, pdf) and 11337-14 (Limite, pdf) In developing its position the Council is mindful of the CJEU judgment on April on length of retention periods and yet still "The vast majority of the delegations, which sent their contributions, affirmed that there should be a uniform retention period of five years..."

• Network and information security: COREPER Draft Mandate: 13143-14 (Limite, 52 pages, pdf): Developing the Council's position.

• DATA PROTECTION REGULATION: Public sector data: 13355/14 (Limite, pdf)

• EU INTERNAL SECURITY STRATEGY: State of play on the development of a renewed EU Internal Security Strategy (ISS) Limite, (pdf) and see earlier: Earlier document (Limite, 12889-14. pdf)

• FOP, as they are known, rarely produce Outcomes/Minutes: Debate on the functioning of the EU system - Activation of the Friends of Presidency Group and Terms of Reference (Limite,12730-14, pdf) and see its first meetings: 13451-14 (Limite, pdf): 1st Meeting: Horizontal issues and the role of national parliaments¨ (25 September 2014); 2nd Meeting: The Council of the European Union in the framework of relations with other Institutions (October 2014, tbc) 3rd Meeting : The Council of the European Union (November 2014, tbc); 4th Meeting: Other and pending issues¨ (December 2014, tbc).

• AUSTRIAN DELEGATION PROPOSAL for a Possible framework for a humanitarian EU initiative on resettlement (13287, Limite, pdf) At the end it includes two charts charts showing the Distribution of asylum applications (EU 28) and Comparison of Quota Following Different Distribution Models by Member State.

• CROSS BORDER TRAFFIC OFFENCES DIRECTIVE: Latest version of the Council's position: 13131-14 (Limite, pdf). The Objective is defined as: "to ensure a high level of protection for all road users in the Union by facilitating the cross-border exchange of information on road safety related traffic offences and thereby the enforcement of sanctions, where those offences are committed with a vehicle registered in a Member State other than the Member State where the offence took place." And the scope covers the law in the country where the offence takes place:

"(a) speeding
(b) non-use of a seat-belt
(c) failing to stop at a red traffic light
(d) drink-driving
(e) driving under the influence of drugs
(f) failing to wear a safety helmet
(g) use of a forbidden lane
(k) 'llegally using a mobile telephone or any other communication devices while driving'"

• VISA CODE (RECAST): 12046-14 (Limite, pdf) and 11514-rev1-14 (Limite, pdf)