PURPOSE: to authorise Portugal to receive and supply personal data in respect of fingerprint data (dactyloscopic data).
NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1867 on the launch of automated data exchange with regard to dactyloscopic data in Portugal.
CONTENT: this Council Implementing Decision authorises Portugal to receive and supply transmit personal data in accordance with Decision 2008/615/JHA for the purpose of automated searching of dactyloscopic data, as from 18 October 2017.
As a reminder, Council Decision 2008/615/JHA on the stepping up of cross-border cooperation, in particular with a view to combating terrorism and cross-border crime, provides that the supply of personal data may not take place until the general provisions on data protection have been implemented in the national law of the territories of the Member States involved in such supply.
An overall evaluation report, including a summary of the results of the data protection questionnaire sent to Portugal, the evaluation visit to this country and the pilot test with Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungry on the exchange of data fingerprints was presented to the Council.
On 19 June 2017, the Council concluded that Portugal had fully implemented the general provisions on data protection set out in Decision 2008/615/JHA.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 18.10.2017.