House of Lords - European Union - Twenty-Third Report

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European Union - Twenty-Third Report

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 9 November 1999.

CONTENTS

REPORT
PART 1: INTRODUCTION

The Databases
EU Justice and Home Affairs Databases - Present and planned

PART 2: SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE

Existing formal and informal data networks
Overlap between databases: the case for rationalisation
Co-location of databases
Links between EU databases
CIS1 and CIS3
Europol
Europol and SIS
Eurodac and other EU databases
Links between EU and International databases
Europol/SIS/Interpol
Europol/non-EU countries
The CIS and the World Customs Organisation
Data protection
Data Protection - proposals for change
The Schengen Information System: effects of the UK's opt-in
European Court of Justice jurisdiction
Computer Security Issues

PART 3: OPINION OF THE COMMITTEE

Recommendation

Appendix 1 - Membership of the Committee
Appendix 2 - List of Witnesses

ORAL EVIDENCE

Home Office and HM Customs and Excise
Written evidence (Home Office)
Oral evidence, 14 April 1999
Supplementary written evidence

JUSTICE
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 5 May 1999

Statewatch
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 12 May 1999

Mr Mark Vernon, Freelance Journalist
Written evidence
Oral evidence, 26 May 1999

NOTE: Pages of the Report are numbered in bold type, pages of evidence are numbered in ordinary type. References in the text of the Report are as follows:

(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence.
(p) refers to a page of written evidence.

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