Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on automated data exchange for police cooperation (“Prüm II”), amending Council Decisions 2008/615/JHA and 2008/616/JHA and Regulations (EU) 2018/1726, 2019/817 and 2019/818

The European Commission aims to address four main concerns:

• Law enforcement agencies are not able to identify whether data is available in the national database of another Member State;
• Law enforcement agencies may not be able to access other relevant data stored in national databases of other Member States;
• Law enforcement agencies are not always able to have access to data that are available in Europol’s database;
• Law enforcement agencies (once they receive a “hit”) do not always have access to the specific data stored in national databases of another Member State.

The objectives of the Proposal are to:

• find a solution for efficient automated exchange of data between EU law enforcement agencies;
• ensure that all EU law enforcement authorities have access to relevant data;
• ensure that the relevant data in the Europol’s database is available to EU law enforcement authorities;
• provide access to the actual data regarding a ‘hit’.

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