Member States' ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) on Wednesday 19 December endorsed the inter-institutional agreement reached between European Parliament and EU Council representatives last week (see EUROPE 12157) on the proposal establishing the centralised information system ‘ECRIS-TCN’ which will enable a Member State to quickly check whether it has information on the convictions of a third-country national.
After months of deadlock, the preliminary solution found between the...