Type: Regulation

Authority:  European Parliament and Council of European Union

Date: 03/13/2024

Subject: Regulation establishes a framework for searching and exchanging information between Member States’ competent authorities (the Prüm II framework) by laying down the conditions and procedures for the automated searching of DNA profiles, dactyloscopic data, certain vehicle registration data, facial images and police records, and the rules regarding the exchange of core data following a confirmed match on biometric data. The purpose of the Prüm II framework is to step up cross-border cooperation, particularly by facilitating the exchange of information between Member States’ competent authorities, in full respect of the fundamental rights. The purpose of the Prüm II framework is also to allow Member State’s competent authorities to search for missing persons in the context of criminal investigations or on humanitarian grounds and to identify human remains, provided that those authorities are empowered to conduct such searches and to carry out such identifications under national law

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Art. 8 Personal data: fairly processing - Personal data: consent - Personal data: access - Personal data: rectification - Personal data: independent authority

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