The European Commission opened a consultation - on 23 October and until 15 January - on the future rules of Europol, which will be the subject of a new mandate next year.
It wants to sound out the stakeholders on the shortcomings of the EU’s police cooperation agency, including “inadequate allocation and deployment of human, financial and IT resources, an articulation and definition of tasks not sufficiently flexible to cover emerging forms of crime and new security threats, technical and legal obstacles to the processing of information, including personal data, and sub-optimal administrative, financial, governance and oversight structures and rules to support the progressive increase of Europol’s supporting tasks”.
The measures selected could include: - “ expanding the areas of activity and the types of crime and threats covered, such as sabotage, hybrid threats and information manipulation”; - new powers to support Member States in priority crime areas; - a new framework for cooperation with Member States, other EU agencies and bodies and third countries; - strengthening technological and innovation capacities or a new human resources and governance model.
Further information: https://aeur.eu/f/j61 (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)