Negotiators from the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU and the European Parliament are meeting on Thursday 13 April for a new trilogue meeting on the Eurodac Regulation, the database on migrants and asylum seekers in the EU.
Negotiators will address the issue of the category of persons disembarked after search and rescue operations at sea (not included in the Parliament mandate), security alerts or the issue of registration of persons benefiting from the temporary protection Directive. This meeting will “not be the last”, a source said on Wednesday 12 April.
The last negotiation meeting took place on 2 March (see EUROPE 13134/2) and discussed, among other things, the issue of detention, age verification of minors or links with other police databases and access to Eurodac by law enforcement authorities.
In written contributions, the Member States have precisely set out their positions on these various points to the Swedish Presidency, with some delegations continuing to reject the introduction into Eurodac of elements on detention, which must remain, in their view, governed by other texts such as the Directive on the conditions for the reception of asylum seekers, which is currently being revised, and proposing new guarantees on the detention of minors.
Furthermore, on the access of law enforcement authorities to Eurodac, countries such as France had wanted “no flexibility” to be possible. Germany also does not want any changes to the access of police forces to Eurodac data, especially data on minors.
Denmark, on the other hand, had proposed that the Eurodac Regulation should cover, in addition to persons with temporary protection, all persons benefiting from another national protection system, which was met with mixed reactions.
Link to the answers: https://aeur.eu/f/6aq (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)