The Austrian Presidency of the Council has got off to a flying start on the proposal to introduce the centralised information system on the criminal records of people from non-EU countries (ECRIS-TCN).
In a memo dated 10 July that this newsletter has seen, Vienna restates its ambition to reach agreement with Parliament ‘as soon as possible, preferably by the end of September 2018.’ (see EUROPE 12059).
The memo mentions a number of bilateral meetings with member states, which had taken...