The European Commission has welcomed the agreement reached by the European Parliament and the European Council on the Regulation of automated data exchange for police cooperation (Prum II). Essentially, this is a revision of the existing Prum Framework aiming to close information gaps and enhance the EU's prevention, detection, and investigation of criminal offenses. The new rules include:
Following the Commission's approval of the political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council will now have to formally adopt the regulation.
Ever since the enforcement of the Prum Framework, the European Council has been calling for expanding the framework to include facial recognition and the exchange of firearms and biographic data, among others. At the same time, digital rights organisatios including EDRi, have raised privacy concerns, highlighting the risk of the rules being misused by European governments. MEPs of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee have also questioned the expansion of the framework in 2020, claiming that there is a risk of false positives, which could lead to unfair targeting of ethnic minorities.