"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
“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)