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              | Date: 2001-12-04 
 
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 Katalogisieren, was das Zeug haelt. Als Erweiterung zum Schengen
 Informationssystem wird die Einrichtung einer EU-weiten Datenbank
 fuer politische "Problemkinder" und Auslaender, deren
 Aufenthaltsgenehmigungen abelaufen sind in Betracht gezogen.
 Derart mit "alerts" Gebrandmarkten soll bei Bedarf die Einreise in
 Mitgliedsstaaten der EU im Interesse der nationalen Sicherheit
 verwehrt werden.
 
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 EU plans to extend the Schengen Information System (SIS) to:
 
 i) create EU database to target "suspected" protestors and bar
 them
 from entering a country where a protest is planned
 ii) create EU database of all "foreigners" to remove third country
 nationals who have not left within the "prescribed time frame"
 (full report as [1]pdf file)
 
 The Council of the European Union (the 15 EU governments) are
 discussing plans to create two new dedicated databases on the
 Schengen Information System (SIS). The first database would cover
 public order and protests and lead to:
 
 "Barring potentially dangerous persons from participating in
 certain events [where the person is] notoriously known by the
 police forces for having committed recognised facts of public order
 disturbance"
 
 "Targeted" suspects would be tagged with an "alert" on the SIS and
 barred from entry the country where the protest or event was taking
 place.
 
 The second database would be a register of all third country
 nationals in the EU who will be tagged with an "alert" if they
 overstay their visa or residence permit - this follows a call by
 the German government for the creation of a "centralised register".
 
 Both of these new databases are being put forward under the post
 11
 September "Anti-terrorism roadmap" (item 45 on the version of
 15.11.01, to "Improve input of alerts into the SIS").
 
 In its report following the protests in Gothenburg and Genoa on 13
 July the Justice and Home Affairs Council agreed to the creation of
 national databases of "trouble-makers" but put off the decision to
 create a centralised EU-wide database, see: [2]Statewatch report:
 EU plans the surveillance of protestors
 
 This initiative comes in the context of the debate over the
 definition of terrorism to be agreed by the Justice and Home
 Affairs Council on 6-7 December. The [3]draft on the table would
 embrace protests and protestors in the definition of terrorism.
 
 Tony Bunyan, editor of Statewatch, commented:
 
 "After the protests in Gothenburg the EU governments adopted
 far-reaching plans to put protestors under surveillance. After 11
 September the European Commission proposed a definition of
 terrorism which also extended to protests.
 
 Now under the EU's "Anti-terrorist roadmap" we have the frightening
 prospect that details of suspected protestors and dissenters will
 be held by the Schengen Information System on one centralised,
 computerised EU-wide database and all "foreigners" in the EU held
 on another - and both are to be the subject of "targeted" action
 and/or surveillance. Protestors and "foreigners" are to be targeted
 as representing primary "threats" to the internal security of the
 EU."
 The full Statewatch report with more details on "foreigners"
 registers and the European Commission's Communication on illegal
 immigration: [4]Full report - the "enemy with" II (pdf file)
 
 [...]
 
 The targeting of "known individuals" will be based on information
 gathered at national level (by police and security agencies) and
 passed on to the SIS in Strasbourg. The database of suspected
 "troublemakers" held on the SIS will then be accessed by police
 and
 internal security agencies when there is an assumed "threat" for a
 particular event in that country. This would deny people the right
 of free movement in the EU and the right to protest. However, the
 placing of an "alert" on the SIS that a "targeted" person is a
 suspected "troublemaker" could be accessed - during a specific
 event - and used to stop them travelling for other purposes such as
 visiting friends or to go on holiday - it would constitute a quasi
 criminal record. Moreover, the construction at national level of a
 register of "known individuals" means that quite ordinary and
 everyday political activity of groups and organisations will have
 to be placed under regular surveillance.
 
 German government calls for EU-wide "foreigners" database
 
 In the immediate aftermath to the 11 September attacks in the USA
 the German government put forward far-reaching proposals to the
 meeting of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council on 27-28
 September. These included a proposal that at the national level
 "each Member State should maintain centralised population
 registers
 and centralised registers storing data on third-country nationals
 present in the territory of the Union" and that there should be
 established:
 
 "a European central register of third-country nationals present
 within the territory of the Union"
 
 Only two EU states have registers of "foreigners" (third-country
 nationals): Germany and Luxembourg (see: [6]The enemy within II
 for
 full analysis)
 
 It might have been expected that such a far-reaching, and
 potentially dangerous, idea would have been noted and dismissed
 as
 extreme but is was not, it re-appeared on the measures to be taken
 post-11 September under the Council's "Anti-terrorism roadmap".
 SIS to hold database on "foreigners" in the EU
 
 [...]
 
 Volltext:
 http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/nov/19sis.htm
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 edited by Harkank
 published on: 2001-12-04
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