Regulation (EU) 2023/2131

Ce que fait l'acte

to amend the Eurojust Regulation to clarify and strengthen the Member States legal obligation to share data regarding terrorist offences with Eurojust. PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: combating terrorism has been part of Eurojust’s mandate since its creation in 2002 and remains one of its core priorities. To combat terrorism effectively, it is crucial that competent authorities efficiently share relevant information among themselves and with EU agencies and bodies to prevent, detect, investigate or prosecute terrorist offences. The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs adopted the report by Patryk JAKI (ECR, PL) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1727 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Decision 2005/671/JHA as regards the digital information exchange in terrorism cases. The proposal aims to amend the Eurojust Regulation and Council Decision 2005/671/JHA in order to improve information sharing between Member States and Eurojust by defining more clearly the information to be shared. The current Eurojust Case Management System (CMS) which was established in 2008 is technically outdated and not able to integrate and support the European Judicial Counter-Terrorism Register (CTR) launched in September 2019. This new initiative will legally and technically integrate the CTR in the CMS at Eurojust, in order to enable Eurojust to identify links between parallel cross-border proceedings in terrorism cases and other cases of serious crime and to give feedback to the Member States’ competent authorities. The committee responsible recommended that the European Parliament's position adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the proposal as follows: Each Member State should designate a competent national authority as a national correspondent for Eurojust on terrorism matters. This correspondent should be empowered to collect this information and to transmit it to Eurojust, in accordance with national criminal procedural law and applicable data protection rules. Members specify that the competent national authorities should inform their national members of any ongoing or closed criminal investigation supervised by the judicial authorities, as well as of prosecutions, court proceedings and court decisions relating to terrorist offences, as soon as the case is referred to the judicial authorities , in accordance with the national criminal law in force. This obligation would apply to all criminal investigations into terrorist offences, regardless of whether there is a known link to another Member State or third country. The information transmitted should include operational personal data and non-personal data as listed in Annex III. However, certain personal data should only be included where such data are held by or may be shared with the relevant national authorities under applicable national…