HL Deb 08 December 2003 vol 655 c39WA
Baroness Ludford

asked Her Majesty's Government: Why they are proposing in the intergovernmental conference on a European Union constitution that the scope of Union rules on data protection should not extend to justice and home affairs and common foreign and security policy matters. [HL14]

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean)

The Government support a single treaty structure which would require, as a consequence, provisions in the treaty which reflect the special arrangements for CFSP and some parts of JHA, including to reflect the restrictions and exemptions relating to data processing contained in Directive 95/46/EC.