People want to enter the EU for a variety of reasons and through different channels: reuniting with family, work, business or education but also to escape from political oppression or war. EU State authorities need to cooperate on border management to keep our borders secure. They also have a shared responsibility for treating asylum seekers equally throughout the EU. A number of information sharing mechanisms - which include the collection and the exchange of information on non EU citizens - are central to their cooperation on migration and asylum.
Opinion on a notification for prior checking received from the Data Protection Officer of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) regarding the Customs File Identification Database (FIDE) (Case 2013-1003)
Speech given by Peter Hustinx during the 36th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, Plenary II – Privacy with no Territorial Bounds, Balaclava Fort, Mauritius, 15-16 October 2014.
Opinion on a notification for Prior Checking received from the Data Protection Officer of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) regarding the Asylum Intervention Pool (Case 2013-1228)
The transfer of personal data to third countries and international organisations by EU institutions and bodies
[NOTE: This paper was published before December 2018 and is no longer in line with the current data protection Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 as interpreted in the latest case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union]