PURPOSE: to authorise Croatia to receive and supply
vehicle registration data (VRD).
PROPOSED ACT: Council Implementing
Decision.
ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the Council adopts
the act after consulting the European Parliament but without being
obliged to follow its opinion.
BACKGROUND: in accordance with Decision
2008/615/JHA on the stepping up of cross-border cooperation,
particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime, the
supply of personal data provided for under that Decision may not
take place until the general provisions on data protection have
been implemented in the national law of the territories of the
Member States involved in such supply.
Council
Decision 2008/616/JHA on the implementation of Decision
2008/615/JHA provides that the verification that the condition has
been met with respect to automated data exchange is to be done on
the basis of an evaluation report based on a questionnaire, an
evaluation visit and a pilot run.
Croatia completed the questionnaire on data protection
and the questionnaire on vehicle registration data (VRD) exchange.
A successful pilot run was carried out by Croatia with the
Netherlands. An evaluation visit took place in Croatia.
On 19 December 2016, the Council, having noted the
agreement of all Member States bound by Decision 2008/615/JHA,
concluded that Croatia had fully implemented the general provisions
on data protection set out in Chapter 6 of Decision
2008/615/JHA.
CONTENT: the draft Council Implementing Decision seeks
to authorise Croatia, for the purposes of automated searching of
vehicle registration data, to receive and supply personal data
pursuant to Decision 2008/615/JHA as from the date of the entry
into force of this Decision.
Denmark, the United Kingdom and Ireland shall
participate in the adoption and application of the proposed
Decision.