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  • Video

    Press Briefing: Mass surveillance - rights vs security?

  • Report / Paper / Summary
    6
    Dezember
    2017

    Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey - Main results

    Seventeen years after adoption of EU laws that forbid discrimination, immigrants, descendants of immigrants, and minority ethnic groups continue to face widespread discrimination across the EU and in all areas of life – most often when seeking employment. For many, discrimination is a recurring experience. This is just one of the findings of FRA’s second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS II), which collected information from over 25,500 respondents with different ethnic minority and immigrant backgrounds across all 28 EU Member States.
  • Report / Paper / Summary
    7
    Juli
    2017

    Fundamental rights and the interoperability of EU information systems: borders and security

    Various proposals on EU-level information systems in the areas of borders and security mention interoperability, aiming to provide fast and easy access to information about third-country nationals.
  • Video

    Interview with EU Security Union Commissioner King

  • Rapport / Publication / Résumé
    18
    November
    2015

    Surveillance par les services de renseignement : protection des droits fondamentaux et voies de recours dans l’Union européenne - Résumé

    En avril  2014, le Parlement européen a  demandé
    à l’Agence des droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne
    (FRA) « d’effectuer des recherches approfondies
    sur la protection des droits fondamentaux dans
    le contexte de la surveillance ». Le présent résumé présente les principales conclusions
    des recherches la FRA, qui sont intégralement
    publiées dans le rapport intitulé Surveillance par les
    services de renseignement : protection des droits
    fondamentaux et voies de recours dans l’UE - Panorama
    du droit des États membres.
  • Opinion / Position Paper
    21
    Dezember
    2015

    FRA Opinion on the exchange of information on third-country nationals under a possible system to complement the European Criminal Records Information System

    The proposal to establish a possible legislative instrument supplementing the existing European Criminal Records Information System with information on third-country nationals convicted in the EU raises a number of fundamental rights issues.
  • Report / Paper / Summary
    18
    November
    2015

    Surveillance by intelligence services - Volume I: Member States’ legal frameworks

    This report, drafted in response to the European Parliament’s call for thorough research on fundamental rights protection in the context of surveillance, maps and analyses the legal frameworks on surveillance in place in EU Member States.
  • Report / Paper / Summary
    18
    November
    2015

    Überwachung durch Nachrichtendienste: Grundrechtsschutz und Rechtsbehelfe in der Europäischen Union - Zusammenfassung

    Im April 2014 forderte das Europäische Parlament
    die Agentur der Europäischen Union für Grundrechte
    (FRA) auf, eine eingehende Untersuchung
    zum Schutz der Grundrechte im Zusammenhang mit
    der Überwachung durchzuführen. Dieser Aufforderung
    kam die FRA nach und stellte einen Überblick
    über die gültigen Rechtsrahmen von Überwachungstätigkeiten
    in den 28 EU-Mitgliedstaaten zusammen
    sowie eine Übersicht über die bestehenden Grundrechtsnormen.
  • Report / Paper / Summary
    18
    November
    2015

    Surveillance by intelligence services: fundamental rights safeguards and remedies in the EU - Summary

    In April 2014, the European Parliament requested the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) “to undertake in–depth research on the protection of fundamental rights in the context
    of surveillance”. This summary presents FRA’s main research findings, which are published in full in the report entitled Surveillance by intelligence services: fundamental rights safeguards and remedies in the EU – Mapping Member States’ legal frameworks.
  • Report / Paper / Summary
    11
    Februar
    2015

    Reactions to the Paris attacks in the EU: fundamental rights considerations

    The events that took place in France and Belgium in January 2015 had tremendous impact across the European Union (EU) and beyond. In the immediate aftermath of the events in Paris, FRA collected responses across Europe, focusing on Jewish and Muslim community organisations, political leaders, civil society and the media. The current paper provides an overview of this material and should be regarded as a snapshot of a rapidly changing situation.
  • Handbook / Guide / Manual
    26
    Januar
    2015

    Fundamental rights considerations for law enforcement when processing Passenger Name Record data

    FRA was requested by the European Commission (EC) in January 2014 to provide practical guidance on the processing of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data for law enforcement purposes, in light of efforts by Member States to establish national PNR systems. As a result, in informal consultation with EC services and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and building on opinions FRA, the EDPS and the Article 29 Working Party on PNR, FRA presented twelve fundamental rights considerations to EU Member States experts at technical level.
  • Report / Paper / Summary
    31
    Dezember
    2013

    Fundamental rights in the future of the European Union’s Justice and Home Affairs

    In this paper, FRA looks at the overall institutional framework of the EU fundamental rights policy. Some of the proposals it contains include introducing an EU ‘fundamental rights policy cycle’ and a ‘European fundamental rights information system’. It also discusses the most pertinent fundamental rights elements in other policy areas of freedom, security and justice.
  • Opinion / Position Paper
    23
    Februar
    2011

    FRA opinion on the draft directive regarding the European Investigation Order (EIO)

    On 14 February 2011, as requested by the European Parliament, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) issued an opinion on the draft directive regarding the European Investigation Order (EIO) in criminal matters. The draft directive, aimed at mutual recognition of warrants for both existing and new evidence, is intended to replace an existing ‘fragmented regime' with a more comprehensive legislative instrument.
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