With discussions already at an advanced stage at the Council of the EU on the proposal to create a centralised ECRIS-TCN to verify rapidly whether a member state holds information on the convictions of a third-country national (see EUROPE 11819), talks at the European Parliament have only just got underway and seem to be going in quite the opposite direction.
At this point, the main differences between the positions of the two institutions on this proposal, which was tabled by the...