§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to remove the United Kingdom derogations to principles 2.2 and 2.4 of the Council of Europe recommendation on the use of personal data in the police sector [R(87) (15)1; if he will list those member states who have not entered such a derogation; and if he will make a statement. [27008]
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe UK has reserved its right to comply or not with principles 2.2 and 2.4 of the Council of Europe recommendation. There are no plans to lift these reservations.
No other Member state entered identical reservations when the recommendation was adopted, although the Republic of Ireland entered a general reservation to comply or not with the recommendation as a whole and Switzerland abstained.