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EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

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Report / Paper / Summary
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Data protection
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Security
18
November
2015

Surveillance by intelligence services - Volume I: Member States’ legal frameworks

This report, drafted in response to the European Parliament’s call for thorough research on fundamental rights protection in the context of surveillance, maps and analyses the legal frameworks on surveillance in place in EU Member States.
Report / Paper / Summary
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Security
18
November
2015

Surveillance by intelligence services: fundamental rights safeguards and remedies in the EU - Summary

In April 2014, the European Parliament requested the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) “to undertake in–depth research on the protection of fundamental rights in the context
of surveillance”. This summary presents FRA’s main research findings, which are published in full in the report entitled Surveillance by intelligence services: fundamental rights safeguards and remedies in the EU – Mapping Member States’ legal frameworks.
Report / Paper / Summary
Legal migration and integration
Security
Support for human rights systems and defenders
Civil society
11
February
2015

Reactions to the Paris attacks in the EU: fundamental rights considerations

The events that took place in France and Belgium in January 2015 had tremendous impact across the European Union (EU) and beyond. In the immediate aftermath of the events in Paris, FRA collected responses across Europe, focusing on Jewish and Muslim community organisations, political leaders, civil society and the media. The current paper provides an overview of this material and should be regarded as a snapshot of a rapidly changing situation.
Report / Paper / Summary
Asylum, migration and borders
Borders and information systems
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Borders and information systems
Data protection
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Security
26
January
2015

Fundamental rights considerations for law enforcement when processing Passenger Name Record data

FRA was requested by the European Commission (EC) in January 2014 to provide practical guidance on the processing of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data for law enforcement purposes, in light of efforts by Member States to establish national PNR systems. As a result, in informal consultation with EC services and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and building on opinions FRA, the EDPS and the Article 29 Working Party on PNR, FRA presented twelve fundamental rights considerations to EU Member States experts at technical level.
Report / Paper / Summary
Security
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
31
December
2013

Fundamental rights in the future of the European Union’s Justice and Home Affairs

In this paper, FRA looks at the overall institutional framework of the EU fundamental rights policy. Some of the proposals it contains include introducing an EU ‘fundamental rights policy cycle’ and a ‘European fundamental rights information system’. It also discusses the most pertinent fundamental rights elements in other policy areas of freedom, security and justice.
Opinion
Judicial cooperation and rule of law
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Security
23
February
2011

FRA opinion on the draft directive regarding the European Investigation Order (EIO)

On 14 February 2011, as requested by the European Parliament, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) issued an opinion on the draft directive regarding the European Investigation Order (EIO) in criminal matters. The draft directive, aimed at mutual recognition of warrants for both existing and new evidence, is intended to replace an existing ‘fragmented regime' with a more comprehensive legislative instrument.