PURPOSE: to launch an automated data exchange with regard to vehicle registration data (VRD) in Latvia.
NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/254 on the launch of automated data exchange with regard to vehicle registration data (VRD) in Latvia.
CONTENT: the Council implementing decision authorises Latvia to receive and supply personal data pursuant to Decision 2008/615/JHA from 24 February 2016 with respect to automated data exchange regarding Vehicle Registration Data.
According to Decision 2008/615/JHA on the stepping up of cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime, the supply of personal data provided for under that Decision may not take place until the general provisions on data protection set out in that Decision have been implemented in the national law of the territories of the Member States involved in such supply.
On the basis of: (i) an overall evaluation report, summarising the results of the questionnaire, the evaluation visit and the pilot run concerning VRD exchange; (ii) an evaluation that took place in Latvia and (iii) a successful pilot run carried out by Latvia with the Netherlands, the Council concluded that Latvia had fully implemented the general provisions on data protection set out in Chapter 6 of Decision 2008/615/JHA.
Denmark and Ireland are taking part in the adoption and application of the proposed Decision. The United Kingdom is not bound by Decision 2008/615/JHA and is therefore not bound by it or subject to its application.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 25.2.2016.