EU information management instruments

The Commission presents today a clear, comprehensive and transparent summary of instruments regulating the collection, storage or cross-border exchange of personal data for the purpose of law enforcement or migration management, setting out at the same time the core principles that should underpin the evaluation of information management instruments in the area of freedom, security and justice.

These same principles will be followed in the future development of instruments for data collection, storage or exchange: (pdf at statewatch.org)