Brussels, 19/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - As it announced in April in its European Agenda on Security and repeated in November in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, the European Commission brought forward a draft directive in Strasbourg on Tuesday 19 January to extend the European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS) to nationals of third countries, allowing member states' law enforcement authorities to exchange information.
First raised by the Commission in January 2015 in the...