Matthias Monroy

Security Architectures in the EU

Schlagwort: Customs

  • EU PNR Directive: Germany stored and processed 63 million passengers

    EU PNR Directive: Germany stored and processed 63 million passengers

    Four years ago, the German parliament passed a Passenger Data Act, and since then, more and more travellers have been dragnetted. Federal police and customs take over „follow-up measures“. German police authorities processed around 212 million passenger data last year. Corrected for double counting, this concerned about 63 million travellers at German commercial airports. The […]

  • Passenger data at German police: Many „matches“ but far fewer „hits“

    Passenger data at German police: Many „matches“ but far fewer „hits“

    According to an EU directive, air passengers must accept that their data is collected, screened with police databases and then stored. For the first time, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior writes which individual alerts lead to police measures at the airport. Since the summer of 2018, the German Passenger Name Record Unit (PIU) […]

  • SIS 3.0: Thousands of new authorities use the Schengen Information System

    SIS 3.0: Thousands of new authorities use the Schengen Information System

    After police, customs and immigration offices, numerous non-police authorities are now connected to Europe’s largest database for security purposes. All Schengen states now have to implement three new regulations. Surprisingly, there is resistance in Switzerland. In the end, the country may even leave the network. With the implementation of three new regulations, some 2,000 additional […]

  • Customs Union: 27 countries „work together as if they were one“

    Customs Union: 27 countries „work together as if they were one“

    Customs authorities are seen as „gatekeepers of EU borders for the flow of goods“. They increasingly rely on „risk analysis“ and new information systems. Now the EU customs cooperation with police and border authorities will be enhanced. Since 1968, the European Economic Community has been a Customs Union for industrial products, and from 1970 for agricultural […]