Legislative Amendments on Information Exchange in Cases of Terrorism Offenses
- Alexandru Popina
- May 21, 2025
- 1 min read
On Friday, May 16, 2025, the Ministry of Internal Affairs launched for public debate the draft Law for the completion of Article 22¹ of Law no. 535/2004 on the prevention and combating of terrorism.
The draft law will supplement Chapter II, Section 3 titled Information Exchange of Law 535/2004:
– by specifying that information regarding criminal investigations for terrorism offenses that affect or may affect two or more Member States shall be transmitted to Europol, in accordance with Law no. 56/2018 on the cooperation of Romanian public authorities with the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and with Regulation (EU) 2016/794 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
– by stating that the processing of personal data under Council Decision 2005/671/JHA may only take place for the purposes of preventing, investigating, detecting, and prosecuting terrorism offenses and other offenses falling within Europol's competence, in accordance with the purpose limitation principle;
– by more precisely defining the categories of personal data that may be subject to exchange, duly taking into account the operational needs of the relevant authorities.
Comments