European Parliament legislative resolution of 14 April 2016 on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Council Framework Decision 2008/977/JHA (05418/1/2016 — C8-0139/2016 — 2012/0010(COD))
Date: 2016-04-14
Institutions: Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Committee on Legal Affairs, European Parliament
Subjects: EU police cooperation, approximation of laws, data protection, data transmission, fight against crime, judicial cooperation in criminal matters in the EU, natural person, personal data, protection of privacy








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15.2.2018   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 58/253





P8_TA(2016)0126
Processing of personal data for the purposes of crime prevention ***II
European Parliament legislative resolution of 14 April 2016 on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Council Framework Decision 2008/977/JHA (05418/1/2016 — C8-0139/2016 — 2012/0010(COD))
(Ordinary legislative procedure: second reading)
(2018/C 058/41)

The European Parliament,






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having regard to the Council position at first reading (05418/1/2016 — C8-0139/2016),










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having regard to the reasoned opinions submitted, within the framework of Protocol No 2 on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, by the German Bundesrat and the Swedish Parliament, asserting that the draft legislative act does not comply with the principle of subsidiarity,










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having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions of 10 October 2012 (1),










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having regard to the opinions of the European Data Protection Supervisor of 7 March 2012 (2) and 19 November 2015 (3),










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having regard to the opinion of the Commission (COM(2016)0213),










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having regard to its position at first reading (4) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2012)0010),










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having regard to Article 294(7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,










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having regard to Rule 76 of its Rules of Procedure,










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having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A8-0138/2016),












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Approves the Council position at first reading;












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Notes that the act is adopted in accordance with the Council position;












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Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council, in accordance with Article 297(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;












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Instructs its Secretary-General to sign the act, once it has been verified that all the procedures have been duly completed, and, in agreement with the Secretary-General of the Council, to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union;












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Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.






(1)  OJ C 391, 18.12.2012, p. 127.

(2)  OJ C 192, 30.6.2012, p. 7.

(3)  OJ C 67, 20.2.2016, p. 13.

(4)  Texts adopted of 12.3.2014, P8_TA(2014)0219.