The Data Protection Regime Applying to the Inter-Agency Cooperation and Future Architecture of the EU Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Area

Abstract

This study aims, first, at identifying data protection shortcomings in the inter-agency cooperation regime in the EU criminal justice and law enforcement area and, second, at outlining, under six possible scenarios, the interplay among the data protection legal instruments in the law-making process today in field, as well as, the response each could provide to such shortcomings.

Keywords: Data Protection in the EU criminal justice and law enforcement area, Europol, Eurojust, EPPO, OLAF