Proposal to open negotiations on the Commission recommendation for a Council decision authorising the opening of negotiations for an agreement between the EU and Tunisia on the exchange of personal data between Europol and the Tunisian competent authorities for fighting serious crime and terrorism

This dossier concerns opening negotiations for an agreement between the EU and Tunisia on the exchange of personal data between Europol and the Tunisian competent authorities for fighting serious crime and terrorism. Amendments demand a prior impact assessment, data-protection safeguards essentially equivalent to EU law and consistent with the Charter, purpose limitation, defined offence categories, data-retention and erasure rules, an independent supervisory authority, restrictions on onward transfers and special protection for sensitive data, with some calling to refrain from negotiations.