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EU: INTERNAL SECURITY AGENCIES ACCESS & INPUT INTO SIS

12 April 2016

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Council of the European Union: Observations of the Presidency on strengthening Information Exchange/Information Systems, especially SIS (LIMITE doc no: 7412-16, pdf)

"Enable direct inserts of alerts in the SIS for security services (possible national legal changes) Member states will ensure that security services have the possibility of entering alerts into the SIS without interference of judicial authorities. Amendments of legal or policy frameworks allowing security services to enter alerts will be made."

Includes: ANNEX: "Indicative criteria to be taken into consideration regarding exchange and sharing of information on individuals involved in travelling to and from jihadi areas of conflict Any transmission and sharing of information about the individuals referred to below is submitted to limitations and safeguards provided in national law." and

"Extend Europol’s access rights to SIS II (legal change): Europol must have the possibility to access alerts with regard to missing persons and on persons undesirable in or refused entry to the territory of a Member State."

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