MEPs rejected the European Council’s proposal to “allow the United Kingdom to participate in the automated searching” of fingerprint data stored in the EU’s Prum DNA database. They voiced concerns that allowing the UK access “could create significant risks” because the Prime Minister has rejected a role for the European Court of Justice in the future relationship. A report said: “Dactyloscopic data is a particular sensitive category of personal data that requires a specific protection as its processing could create significant risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms.
“Union law requires that when such processing is to be carried out, it has to be subject to appropriate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of the data subject.
“In view of the current state of play of the negotiations on the future relations between the UK and the EU, it is not yet clear whether after December 31, 2020 the UK will meet the conditions required under the Union law to be considered providing an essentially equivalent level of protection to that provided by the Union law.”
The dossier, drawn up the by the EU Parliament’s Committee of Civil Liberties, said the UK must sign up to an “equivalent level of protection of personal data” in order to access the database.
Juan Fernando López Aguilar, a Spanish MEP and chairman of the committee, wrote: “The Rapporteur, therefore, advises the Parliament to reject the Council draft implementing decision and to request the Council not to adopt its draft implementing decision and not to take any decision in this regard until guarantees from the UK as regards full reciprocity and data protection are obtained and the new legal framework for the new partnership cooperation with the United Kingdom is negotiated and concluded.”
MEPs want the Council to wait until the future relationship deal between Britain and Brussels is decided before considering access to the bloc’s finger print database.
The EU Council’s draft proposal was defeated by 357 votes to 329, with four abstentions, in a tight contest.
The vote was carried out online with most MEPs still under orders to work from home due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Guy Verhofstadt’s liberal allies in the Renew group were the main opponents to the Council’s draft plans.
Whereas, the centre-right European People’s Party, the largest political bloc in the Parliament, backed the proposal.
The Governments wants to maintain close security cooperation with Brussels after the post-Brexit transition expires on January 1, 2021.
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Britain has previously been criticised for not sharing DNA data from UK-based suspects despite having full access to the scheme,
Any decision to revoke access would see EU police forces lose access to the UK’s own DNA database, which holds information on more than five million people and evidence from 500,000 crime scenes.
A UK spokesman said: “The safety and security of our citizens is the government’s top priority. It is in everyone’s interest that we reach an agreement with the European Union that equips operational partners on both sides with the capabilities that help protect citizens and bring criminals to justice.”
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