Meeting in Strasbourg on Wednesday 15 September, MEPs adopted - by a very large majority - two reports aimed at amending the EU Council Framework Decision on its alignment with EU rules on the protection of personal data in the judicial context.
For example, the reports highlight the need to clarify that the processing of personal data is subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or - if it takes place in the context of criminal proceedings - to the Directive on data protection in law enforcement (2016/679).
Furthermore, the documents specify that data may not be processed for purposes other than those for which they were originally collected.
The two reports, defended by Jeroen Lenaers (EPP, Netherlands) and Marina Kaljurand (S&D, Estonia), go back respectively to the provisions of the EU Council Framework Decision on Joint Investigation Teams, which allows the competent authorities of several Member States to set up a temporary team to investigate, and the European Investigation Decision, which makes it possible to have one or more specific investigative measures carried out in another Member State in order to obtain evidence. (Original version in French by Thomas Mangin)