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Europaudvalget 2011-12
EUU Alm.del Bilag 581
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

The Chairman

To the Chair of the committee concerned

Honourable Chairperson,

I am pleased to inform you that the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice

and Home Affairs (LIBE) will organise an

Inter-parliamentary committee meeting with national

Parliaments on Tuesday 9 October and - Wednesday 10 October 2012

in the European

Parliament's premises in Brussels on the issue of

the EU Data Protection Reform.

The reform includes two proposals, a general Regulation on the protection of individuals with

regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data

(COM(2012)0011) and a Directive on processing of personal data by competent authorities for

the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the

execution of criminal penalties (COM(2012)0010). As such, the two proposals would replace the

current Directive 95/46/EC and Framework Decision 2008/977/JHA, and are reflecting the

importance of data protection as a fundamental right, as well as adapting the provisions on data

protection to the newest standards reflecting the latest technological developments and past

experience (including case-law) on data protection.

This Data Protection "legislative package" is considered to be one of the main issues debated

during this legislative period.

Several national Parliaments have already provided their positions with respect to these proposals

(e. g.: five reasoned opinions on the draft Regulation

) with respect to the issue of subsidiarity.

The meeting will be an occasion to meet with various actors such as representatives of the

Commission, Council Presidency, judges of the European Court of Justice and of the European

Court of Human Rights, the Fundamental Rights Agency, the European Data Protection

Supervisor, national data protection authorities and law enforcement authorities, Europol,

Eurojust, scholars, industry and civil society. As the European Regulation will have an impact on

international level, some representatives of third countries and especially from U.S.A. will take

part in this event.

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It will therefore provide very valuable input for the future works of the LIBE Rapporteurs, Mr Jan

Phillip Albrecht and Mr Dimitrios Droutsas, including the preparation of the two draft reports

scheduled for November/December 2012 in the LIBE Committee.

I am thus very pleased to invite to this meeting a maximum of four members from the relevant

committees of your Parliament (two from each chamber for bicameral national Parliaments).

Should you be unable to attend, we would welcome any written contribution which can be

distributed to the participants.

The final programme of this meeting and practical information will be forwarded to your

Parliament's Representatives directly responsible for relations with the European Parliament.

I look forward to your participation in our discussions.

Yours sincerely,

Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR

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