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• EU Judicial Cooperation: Member States’ initiative on «in absentia» judgments

  25 March 2008, by European Council
  Initiative of the Republic of Slovenia, the French Republic, the Czech Republic, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Slovak Republic, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany with a view to adopting a Council Framework Decision 2008/…/JHA on the enforcement of decisions rendered in absentia and amending Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States

• Élargissement de l’espace Schengen : réalisation de l’objectif européen de libre circulation des personnes

  26 décembre 2007, par European Commission
  À compter du 21 décembre 2007, l’Estonie, la République tchèque, la Lituanie, la Hongrie, la Lettonie, Malte, la Pologne, la Slovaquie et la Slovénie feront partie de l’espace Schengen. Les contrôles aux frontières intérieures, tant terrestres que maritimes, entre ces pays et les quinze États déjà membres seront levés. L’idéal de la liberté de circulation trouvera là une expression très concrète : après ce dernier élargissement, la frontière orientale de l’espace Schengen mesurera 4 278 km.

• Enlargement of the Schengen area: achieving the European goal of free movement of persons

  24 December 2007, by European Commission
  As of 21st December 2007, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia will become part of the Schengen area. Controls at internal land and sea borders between these countries and the current 15 member states will be lifted. This will result in a very tangible expression of the free movement ideal: this latest enlargement extends the free movement area by 4,278 km.

• Recent examples of enforcement actions carried out by data protection authorities

  9 May 2006, by Article 29 Group
  This comparative report gives brief examples of enforcement measures against breaches of data privacy protection rules in the member states. It shows high levels of variability in terms of penalties (ie minimal fines as in Germany and stiffer penalties elsewhere). Financial penalties are often so low as a percentage of the gain made by the infringer that they are not a deterrent. The compensation to the ‘victim’ can often be trivial and meaningless. There is also variance in what member states focus on when looking into enforcement, The most common areas are health, insurance, tax and payment of telephone bills. The UK looked at police data.

• Declaration on future cooperation of the Central and Eastern Europe Personal Data Protection Commissioners

  10 January 2006, by Central and Eastern Europe Personal Data Protection Commissioners
  Declaration on future cooperation of the Central and Eastern Europe Personal Data Protection Commissioners in Smolenice, on May 24th 2005