Police Cooperation

2011 was a very productive year, in line with our efforts to ensure consistent and effective protection of privacy and personal data in a fast-changing, interconnected world.In its support of technological advances and economic development, particularly in an age of austerity, it is important that the EU administration does not lose sight of the right of the European citizen to privacy and data protection. Only a joint effort to apply a consistent and effective approach will maintain this fundamental right.

You can obtain a paper version of this Annual Report on EU Bookshop .

Letter to Ms Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Home Affairs concerning proposal for directive on freezing and confiscating proceeds of crime

Letter to Ms Sonia Alfano, MEP, concerning EDPS involvement in Special Committee on Organised Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering (CRIM)

Opinion on the Commission Regulation establishing a Union Registry for the trading period commencing on 1 January 2013, and subsequent trading periods, of the Union emissions trading scheme