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Repealing obsolete acts from the Schengen acquis in the field of police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters

2014/0338(COD)

PURPOSE: to repeal a certain number of obsolete Union acts adopted in the field of police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters and belonging to the Schengen acquis.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EU) 2016/94 of the European Parliament and of the Council repealing certain acts from the Schengen acquis in the field of police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.

CONTENT: in the context of the better law-making strategy that the institutions of the Union are implementing, the Regulation repeals a number of acts adopted in the field of police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters and belonging to the Schengen acquis are no longer relevant due to their temporary nature or because their content has been taken up by successive acts.

The Regulation repeals:

  • three Decisions of the Executive Committee SCH/Comex concerning: (i) combatting drug trafficking, (ii) police handbook, (iii) road traffic offences;
  • a Declaration of the Executive Committee SCH/Com-ex (97) decl. 13 rev 2 (abduction of minors),
  • Council Decision 2008/173/JHA of 18 February 2018 on the tests of the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II).

Following the notification made by the United Kingdom on 24 July 2013 in accordance with the first sentence of the first subparagraph of Article 10(4) of Protocol No 36 on transitional provisions, the obsolete Decisions and Declaration have ceased to apply to the United Kingdom as from 1 December 2014, pursuant to that Protocol. The United Kingdom is therefore not taking part in the adoption of this Regulation and is not bound by it or subject to its application.

Denmark is not bound by Regulation or subject to its application, but that it shall decide, in accordance with Protocol No 22 annexed to the Treaties, decide within a period of six months after the Council has decided on this Regulation whether it will implement it in its national law.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 22.2.2016.