EU Member States have started work on the so-called ‘Prüm II’ Regulation revising the 2008 EU Council decisions on the Prüm Convention, which provide for the automated exchange of DNA, dactyloscopic (fingerprint) and vehicle registration data between national law enforcement authorities and adding new categories of data, such as facial images of suspects and convicted criminals and police records.
The regulation, proposed on 8 December as part of a package of texts on strengthening...