Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the information exchange between law enforcement authorities of Member States, repealing Council Framework Decision 2006/960/JHA

• National rules do not allow the effective and efficient flow of information;
• In certain circumsances the Member States do not have the appropriate structures to receive information requests from other Member States;
• The different channels used by national authorities to send information requests cause the duplication of these requests.

To address these issues, the initiative of the European Commission aims to:

• enable the access for law enforcement authorities to information held in another Member State;
• ensure that all the Member States have a single point of contact;
• create a mandatory default communication channel.

The file is currently being considered by the preparatory bodies in the Council and in the European Parliament.