SECTORAL POLICIES / Justice

Commission presents its negotiating mandate for transatlantic agreement on electronic evidence

Brussels, 05/02/2019 (Agence Europe)

On Tuesday 5 February, the European Commission adopted a draft negotiating mandate for an EU-US agreement on cross-border access to electronic evidence (see EUROPE 12165), which Member States are awaiting eagerly (see EUROPE 12033). 

"85% of all criminal investigations now involve electronic evidence [...] A lot of this evidence is stored on Cloud servers outside the EU, namely in the United States”, said the European Commissioner of Justice, Věra Jourová, at a press conference. 

The...