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EU: European Parliament: Debate: refusal to disclose details of implementation US-EU anti-terror deal

08 January 2015

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"The EU and the US are able to share information about bank transfers in order to track suspected terrorists thanks to the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) Agreement, also known as the Swift agreement. However, as Europol refuses to give public access to an annual audit report on it, there are concerns about whether there is enough democratic oversight of the deal's implementation. The EP's civil liberties committee will discuss it with European ombudsman Emily O'Reilly on Thursday."

See the full text: Debate: refusal to disclose details of implementation US-EU anti-terror deal (link)

And see: US gag order on EU police agency stirs controversy (euobserver, link): "he EU’s ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, told MEPs in the civil liberties committee the situation amounts to giving the US “a veto over the democratic oversight of EU institutions”. “It may well be the case that it contains sensitive data from the US and so should not be released - but we have no way of knowing without sight of the report,” she said. “It should be pointed out that this is a document from an EU institution.”

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