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New Perspectives for the Protection of Personal Data in Criminal Proceedings in the European Union and Repercussions on the Italian Legal System

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Abstract

This paper seeks to examine, after a brief overview of current EU legislation on personal data protection in the field of judicial cooperation in criminal matters, the European Commission’s proposal for a directive on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the prevention, investigation, detection, and prosecution of criminal offenses or the execution of criminal penalties.

This proposal, if approved, will be the source of Community law governing the use and exchange of information relating to such data between the Member States as well as—and this is a significant change from the past—their use by individual national authorities.

The exchange of information is in fact becoming, more than ever, an indispensable tool in the prevention and suppression of crime.

The circulation of information, however, must be balanced against the need for privacy, a principle now enshrined in the EU’s Treaties and Charters.

Therefore, after having carried out an analysis of the Directive proposal, we highlight its critical aspects.

Finally, we look at the Italian legal system to understand how the new EU regulatory framework may be transposed into the legislation of a Member State and whether or not domestic legislation complies with EU regulations.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    COM (2012) 9 final, Brussels, 25 January 2012.

  2. 2.

    Proposal for a Directive 2012/0010 (COD), Brussels, 25/01/2012, COM (2012) 10 final.

  3. 3.

    Marchetti (2012), p. 3.

  4. 4.

    Art. 8 EU FRCh.

  5. 5.

    Rodotà (2000), p. 1.

  6. 6.

    Cortese (2013), p. 2.

  7. 7.

    Cortese (2013), p. 3.

  8. 8.

    Belfiore (2013), p. 2.

  9. 9.

    Court of Justice, 16 December 2008, C-524/06, Huber; Court of Justice, 24 November 2011, C-468/10, C-469/10, Asnef and Fecmd.

  10. 10.

    Belfiore (2013), p. 8.

  11. 11.

    Report on the proposal for a Directive, COM (2012) 10 final.

  12. 12.

    The EDPS regretted that “the Commission has chosen to regulate this with a separate legal instrument that provides an inadequate level of protection, far less than that of the proposed regulation … the proposal does not meet the requirement of a consistent and high level of data protection …”

  13. 13.

    Stockholm Programme, 4 May 2010.

  14. 14.

    Opinion of the 14th Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Doc XVIII-bis, no. 73.

  15. 15.

    Marchetti (2012), p. 27.

  16. 16.

    Report on the proposal for a Directive, COM (2012) 10 final.

  17. 17.

    ECtHR, 4 December 2008, S. and Marper v United Kingdom, Application no. 30562/04 and no. 30566.

  18. 18.

    Madrid Resolution on international standards and privacy of 5 November 2009.

  19. 19.

    Marchetti (2012), p. 27.

  20. 20.

    Opinion of the EDPS of 7 March 2012.

  21. 21.

    Ibid.

  22. 22.

    Ibid.

  23. 23.

    Ibid.

  24. 24.

    Ibid.

  25. 25.

    Ibid.

  26. 26.

    Briganti (2005), p. 2.

  27. 27.

    Gennari (2011), p. 1185B.

  28. 28.

    Corte di cassazione, III Sezione, 29 settembre 2011, Z.S., in www.altalex.it, n. 35296.

  29. 29.

    See fn. 28.

  30. 30.

    Sorrentino (2001), p. 2.

  31. 31.

    Sorrentino (2001), p. 3.

  32. 32.

    Court of Cassation, 1th Section, 20 May 2002, www.privacy.it, n. 7341.

  33. 33.

    Constitutional Court, 440/88.

  34. 34.

    Sorrentino (2001), p. 5.

  35. 35.

    Rivello (2013), p. 1670B.

  36. 36.

    Oliveri (2009), p. 241.

  37. 37.

    Felicioni (2009), p. 9.

  38. 38.

    Rivello (2013), p. 1670B.

  39. 39.

    Fanuele (2011), p. 119.

  40. 40.

    Busia (2009), p. 77.

  41. 41.

    Fanuele (2011), p. 117.

  42. 42.

    Gennari (2011), p. 1195B.

  43. 43.

    European Court of Human Rights, M.K. v. France, Application no. 19522/2009.

  44. 44.

    Scarcella (2013), p. 2850B.

  45. 45.

    ECtHR, 4 December 2008, S. and Marper v United Kingdom, Application no. 30562/04 and no. 30566.

  46. 46.

    Scarcella (2013), p. 2851B.

  47. 47.

    Cortese (2013), p. 317.

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Crupi, F. (2015). New Perspectives for the Protection of Personal Data in Criminal Proceedings in the European Union and Repercussions on the Italian Legal System. In: Ruggeri, S. (eds) Human Rights in European Criminal Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12042-3_13

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