ANNEX
Date: 2007-06-07
Institutions: Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, European Parliament
Subjects: EU police cooperation, data protection, judicial cooperation in criminal matters in the EU, personal data

C 125 E/154

Thursday 7 June 2007

Official Journal of the European Union

EN

22.5.2008

ANNEX

Council Declaration concerning the Council Framework Decision on the protection of personal data pro-
cessed in the framework of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters

The Council recognises the importance of the existence of a comprehensive and coherent set of rules at the
level of the European Union concerning the high level of protection of personal data processed in the
framework of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, as a part of the Union's ever increasing
regulatory set of instruments on such cooperation. These rules will constitute an important development of
the minimum data protection principles set by the Convention of 28 January 1981 for the protection of
individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal data, and in Recommendation (87)15 regulating
the use of personal data in the police sector, both adopted in the framework of the Council of Europe.

Therefore, the Council continues to give priority to the examination of the proposal for a Council Frame-
work Decision on the protection of personal data processed in the framework of police and judicial coop-
eration in criminal matters, and intends to reach a political agreement on the proposal as soon as possible
and at the latest by the end of 2007.

Council Declaration concerning the right of access to the VIS by the United Kingdom and Ireland in the
Council Decision

The Council recognises that the shared security of Member States will be strengthened by the reciprocal
access of the United Kingdom and Ireland to the Visa Information System and emphasizes the importance
of the United Kingdom and Ireland access for law enforcement purposes to the Visa Information System.
The Council will therefore keep the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland under review, including in
relation to relevant jurisprudence and will in the light of the outcome of the Court Decisions adopt such
provisions as may be necessary or appropriate to enable the United Kingdom and Ireland to have access to
the Visa Information System on the same footing as the other Member States.

P6_TA(2007)0230

Protection of personal data *

European Parliament legislative resolution of 7 June 2007 on the proposal for a Council Framework
Decision on the protection of personal data processed in the framework of police and judicial
(7315/2007 — C6-0115/2007 —
(renewed consultation)
cooperation in criminal matters
2005/0202(CNS))

(Consultation procedure — renewed consultation)

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Council proposal (7315/2007),

— having regard to the Council's amendments (7315/1/2007),

— having regard to the Commission proposal (COM(2005)0475),

— having regard to its position of 27 September 2006 (1),

— having regard to Articles 30, 31 and 34(2)(b) of the Treaty on European Union,

(1) Texts Adopted on that date, P6_TA(2006)0370.