National and Public Security within and beyond the Police Directive

Abstract

At the time of writing, nineteen Member States have been notified by the European Commission of an infringement procedure against them, due to their delay in implementing the Directive throughout their respective national processes. 7 Several months after the official deadline for the national transposition of 1 Directive (EU) 2016/680 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and on the free movement of such data, and repealing