Traduction de «unité d'enquête commune » (Français → Anglais) :

34. Calls for a clear definition of the role and powers of the PIUs, in particular in terms of transparency and democratic accountability and in order to lay down appropriate data protection rules; requests that the role of PIUs be limited to the transfer of data to competent authorities, in order to ensure that risk assessments may only be carried out by competent authorities and in the context of an inquiry; asks for clarification of the law which will govern the risk assessment conducted by the PIUs, and the responsibility of data protection authorities in cases where Member States cooperate to set up a joint PIU;

- Statistics are compiled on the basis of common standards with respect to scope, definitions, units and classifications in the different surveys and sources.

In the wake of the appalling events of 11 September, this initiative has come to the fore as part of a framework of measures to be adopted in the fight against terrorism and seeks to secure the adoption of a framework decision that will provide a legal framework to enable us to set up joint investigation teams made up of members of the police and judges who are specially trained in the fight against terrorism and of representatives of the Provisional Judicial Cooperation (Pro-Eurojust) unit and Europol, in order to coordinate investig ...[+++]ations undertaken in this field.

If, for instance, a Eurojust delegate is authorised to exercise national powers, e.g. as a member of a joint investigation team, it will have to be decided whether and to what extent, within the limit of the Eurojust budget, he could make use of the human and financial resources of Eurojust for this purpose, or whether Member States would have to provide additional infrastructure for such activity.

The Council is also discussing whether to set up joint investigative teams, give Europol the power to call on the Member States to initiate criminal investigations, give the heads of Europol’s national units a more important role, increase its powers to analyse files and open files, introduce cooperation between Europol and Eurojust, coordinate cooperation between Europol and the European Police Chiefs’ Task Force, extend access to Europol’s information system, give Europol access to the SIS, facilitate technical and operational support for Europol in on-the-spot operations, encourage better dissemination of data, enable personal data co ...[+++]ntained in analysis files to be kept for longer periods of time.

This information is combined by the central Eurydice unit (based in Brussels) with other data sources - such as statistical data from Eurostat, the UOE database (a joint UNESCO, OECD and Eurostat database) and the results of international education surveys - in order to produce final reports.