EU: Council of the European Union: Study on the implementation of the European Information Exchange Model (EIXM) for strengthening law enforcement cooperation - Discussion paper

See: Study on the implementation of the European Information Exchange Model (EIXM) for strengthening law enforcement cooperation – Discussion paper (LIMITE doc no: 6131-15, pdf). See also: Study on the implementation of the European Information Exchange Model (EXIM) for strengthening law enforcement cooperation (pdf) Concludes that there is a great variation in Member States’ use of SIENNA – Europol’s channel for EU information exchange – which is not connected in most Member States to its case management system and “Due to low prioritisation in several Member States, the implementation of the Prüm Decisions is still not as advanced as it should be” and: “One obstacle ….(is) the rules for entering data in the Europol Information System (EIS), the limited user community and the fact that EIS data is normally not easily accessible on a larger scale in operational police work. This also leads to a vicious circle where the volumes of data in EIS are too small for Member States to invest in resources and solutions to increase their use of it.”