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EU-USA: Commission’s ‘Umbrella Agreement’ with US under fire from MEPs

16 February 2016

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"The European Commission is facing challenges on another EU-US data sharing deal: the Parliament legal service and MEPs argued the so-called Umbrella Agreement doesn’t comply with EU law....

Parliament legal advisor Dominique Moore told LIBE MEPs yesterday that there is “clearly a gap between what EU law requires” and the data protection guarantees offered by the Umbrella Agreement....

The criticism from the Parliament comes as a last-ditch warning before the Commission could sign off on the new data sharing agreement for law enforcement."

See: Commission’s ‘Umbrella Agreement’ with US under fire from MEPs (euractiv, link)

Also: European Parliament legal service: Legal opinion: EU-US Umbrella agreement concerning the protection of personal data and cooperation between law enforcement authorities in the EU and US (pdf)

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