European Parliament legislative resolution on the initiative of the Portuguese Republic with a view to the adoption of a Council Decision establishing a Secretariat for the Joint Supervisory Data Protection Bodies set up by the Convention on the Establishment of a European Police Office (Europol Convention), the Convention on the Use of Information Technology for Customs Purposes and the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at the common borders (Schengen Convention)(7381/2000 – C5-0230/2000 — 2000/0804(CNS))
Date: 2000-09-21
Institutions: Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, European Parliament
Subjects: data protection, operation of the Institutions, secretariat of an Institution, supervisory power

17.5.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 146/87

Thursday 21 September 2000

European Parliament legislative resolution on the initiative of the Portuguese Republic with a
view to the adoption of a Council Decision establishing a Secretariat for the Joint Supervisory
Data Protection Bodies set up by the Convention on the Establishment of a European Police Office
(Europol Convention), the Convention on the Use of Information Technology for Customs Pur-
poses and the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement on the gradual abolition of
checks at the common borders (Schengen Convention) (7381/2000 / C5-0230/2000 / 2000/
0804(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

(cid:17) having regard to the initiative of the Portuguese Republic (7381/2000) (1),

(cid:17) having regard to Article 34(2)(c) of the EU Treaty,

(cid:17) having been consulted by the Council pursuant to Article 39(1) of the EC Treaty (C5-0230/2000),

(cid:17) having regard to Rules 106 and 67 of its Rules of Procedure,

(cid:17) having regard to the report of the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home

Affairs (A5-0225/2000),

1.

Approves the initiative of the Portuguese Republic, as amended;

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament should it intend to depart from the text approved by Parlia-

2.
ment;

Asks to be consulted again if the Council intends to amend the initiative of the Portuguese Republic

3.
substantially;

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission and the Portuguese

4.
Government.

(1) OJ C 141, 19.5.2000, p. 20.

10. Eurodac *

A5-0219/2000

Draft Council Regulation concerning the establishment of ‘Eurodac’ for the comparison of finger-
prints for the effective application of the Dublin Convention (8417/2000 / C5-0256/2000 / 1999/
0116(CNS)) (reconsultation)

The draft was amended as follows:

COUNCIL
DRAFT

AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

(Amendment 4)
Recital 13

(13)
Since the Member States alone are responsible for identifying
and classifying the results of comparisons transmitted by the Central
Unit as well as for the blocking of data relating to persons admitted
and recognised as refugees and since this responsibility concerns the
the processing of personal data and
particularly sensitive area of
could affect
there are specific
individual
the exercise of
grounds for the Council reserving for itself the exercise of certain
implementing powers, relating in particular to the adoption of mea-
sures ensuring the safety and reliability of such data.

freedoms,

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