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WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The European Union and the United States have today initialed a new agreement on the transfer of air passengers' data for flights from the EU to the US. If adopted by the European Parliament and EU Member States in the Council of Ministers, the new agreement on Passenger Name Records (PNR) will replace the current agreement from 2007, improving data protection whilst providing an efficient tool to fight serious transnational crime and terrorism. The new PNR agreement brings more clarity and legal certainty to both citizens and air carriers. It ensures better information sharing by US authorities with law enforcement and judicial authorities from the EU, it sets clear limits on what purposes PNR data may be used for, and it contains a ...
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...COUNCIL OF MINISTERS. The Council of Ministers comprises r...
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The final countdown has commenced for the European Union Savings Directive to come into effect on July 1, 2005. On June 7 the EU's Council of Economic and Finance Ministers (ECOFIN) granted the last necessary approval for the directive to come into effect on July 1. In addition, new guidance has made it clear that most hedge funds domiciled in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands will be out of scope of the directive, at least where certain "paying agents" are concerned. This will be a welcome relief for sponsors of hedge funds domiciled in these two popular jurisdictions. The position of hedge funds domiciled in other major jurisdictions (e.g., Bermuda, the Netherlands Antilles, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) that have "paying agents" in Europe is still not entir...
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In the last 10 years the world's leading economic powers have driven important changes in international policy on illicit drug trafficking. They have set up and financed semi-formal or informal transnational groups to proactively implement policy on the ground. This is a reaction to the bureaucratic, formal mechanisms of the United Nations and its agencies, where policy is diluted by the need for consensus among 53 member states, plus various regional groupings of other countries. The new groups take a more integrated approach to the problem by going beyond trafficking into countering money laundering and controlling the sale of precursor chemicals, which criminal gangs use to synthesize drugs earlier in the supply chain to reduce the bulk of trafficked materials. The established link b...
... for UNODC, and the Customs Cooperation Council for WCO. In the case of the UNODC, governments usu... to call a conference to mobilize ministers from all countries affected by heroin trafficking ...
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...The European Council as the Intergovernmental Master of the EU's Course...Decision-Making by the Council of Ministers 1. The Definition of Qualified Majority Voting 2. ...
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WASHINGTON, June 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council of Ministers of Interior and Justice of the European Union today adopted a U.S.- EU and EU Member States Declaration on Counterterrorism. Below is a statement from Attorney General Eric Holder, who attended the EU/G6 Conference of Interior Ministers in Italy this past weekend, on the Declaration: The Council's adoption of this Declaration is a crucial step forward in our mutual fight against terrorism. I attended the Meeting of the EU/G6 Ministers of Interior in Italy last weekend, where we discussed this Declaration, and I welcome the EU's swift action following those discussions.
