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Subject: Statewatch News Online, 13 March 2006 (05/06)
Statewatch News Online, 13 March 2006 (05/06)
Full contents see: http://www.statewatch.org
1. EU: Police Chief Task Force (PCTF) and Police Chiefs Committee
2. EU: Our "freedom", their labour: a "tradesman's entrance" for
Fortress Europe
3. UK: IRR News Service: Update: Racial violence round-up
4. EU: European Data Protection Supervisor on Eurodac
5. EU: Select Committee report on the European Ombudsman
6. UK-EU: Joint Committee on Human Rights: Implementation of
Strasbourg Judgments
7. EU-USA: The agreements on extradition and mutual legal assistance
8. Spain/Euskadi: Three years on from the closure of Egunkaria newspaper
9. Greece: Immigration news digest (15 February - 2 March 2006)
10. UK: Conference - Crime, Justice and Surveillance, Sheffield
11. ECLN Updated: European Civil Liberties Network
1. EU: Statewatch analysis by Tony Bunyan: The EU's Police Chief
Task Force (PCTF) and Police Chiefs Committee (pdf):
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/mar/pctf.pdf
- a tale of self-regulation and self-definition by a body with no
legal or constitutional basis
- Police Chiefs Committee created, but what is its legal basis?
2. EU: Viewpoint: Our "freedom", their labour: a "tradesman's
entrance for Fortress Europe by Ben Hayes (pdf):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/mar/bh-viewpoint-legal-migration.pdf
Commission proposal on legal migration COM 669 (pdf)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jan/com-policy-plan-legal-mig-669.pdf
3. UK: IRR News Service: Update: Racial violence round-up (9 March
2006) Incidents of racial violence and harassment that have taken
place in the first few months of 2006 and note the results of court
proceedings against perpetrators of attacks that took place after 7
July 2005 (link):
http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/march/ak000017.html
4. EU: European Data Protection Supervisor press release on Eurodac (pdf):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/mar/edps-2006-eurodac.pdf
The press release states that: "Because of the sensitivity of some
information in the report, it is not publicly available"
Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments: "This sets a very bad
precedent. If this principle is extended to the Visa Information
System, SIS II and in time the EU PNR and fingerprint databases all
we will get is a one page press release. The very minimum should be a
"partially accessible" report with any "sensitive information" deleted."
5. EU: Report from the Select Committee on the European Union of the
House of Lords: The European Ombudsman:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/mar/hol-rep-eu-ombuds.pdf
6. UK-EU: Joint Committee on Human Rights report: Implementation of
Strasbourg Judgments (pdf)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/mar/jt-hr-cte-strasbourg.pdf
7. EU-USA: The agreements on extradition and mutual legal assistance
agreed in June 2003 still have some way to go before they come into
effect. Twenty-two Member States are in the process of amending their
constitutions to give effect to the agreements - a few of these have
completed this process: EU doc no: 5848/06 (pdf):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/mar/eu-usa-agreements-5848.pdf
For full background and texts of the agreements see: Statewatch's analysis
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/jun/01useu.htm
8. Spain/Euskadi: Three years on from the closure of Egunkaria newspaper
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/mar/01spain-euskadi-paper-closure.htm
9. Greece: Immigration news digest (15 February - 2 March 2006)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/mar/02greece-imm-news-2.htm
10. UK: Conference - Crime, Justice and Surveillance, Sheffield, 5-6
April 2006 (flyer, pdf):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/mar/CJS-Flier.pdf
Two interesting articles from the current issue of Surveillance and
Society: Studying Surveillance in Greece: Methodological and Other
Problems Related to an Authoritarian Surveillance Culture by Minas Samatas:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/mar/samatas-greece-s-and-soc.pdf
and The ECHELON Trail: An Illegal Vision by Steve Wright:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/mar/wright-echelon-s-and-sur.pdf
11. ECLN Updated: European Civil Liberties Network:
http://www.ecln.org
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