EIS and Siena - European Informational System and Europol’s Secure Information Exchange Network PDF

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European Informational System and Europol’s Secure Information Exchange Network Application...

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European Informational System (EIS) = to store and query information about offences, offenders, suspects and other key crime-related data ● Europol can exchange information except personal data with any country, international organisation and the private sector. ● Europol can presently exchange personal data with: the 27 member states, 17 non-EU states, INTERPOL as well as all EU bodies (UK - still in question) ● Europol’s central criminal information and intelligence database. ● Covers all of Europol’s mandated crime areas ● Keeps track of crimes, suspects and convicted criminals, including terrorism cases. Only Europol members have direct access to the EIS; other countries must put in a request. ● Contains information on serious international crimes, suspected and convicted persons, criminal structures, and offences and the means used to commit them. It is a reference system that can be used to check whether information on a certain person or an object of interest (such as a car, a telephone or an e-mail message) is available beyond national or organisational jurisdictions. ● Until the end of 2018 EIS had more than 1.3 million total objects, 51% of them fell into the counter terrorism area How does it work? Users in designated authorities in the Member States may run searches in the system. If their searches turn up initial results, users may request more information through their Europol National Unit. The EIS interfaces with SIENA, Europol’s message-exchange system, for the follow-up to searches and hits found.

Europol’s Secure Information Exchange Network Application (SIENA) = quick exchange of operational and strategic crime related data ●

facilitates and relies on the exchange of information, the secure and swift transmission of sensitive and restricted data is essential. ● Meets the communication needs of EU law enforcement swift and user-friendly exchange of operational and strategic crime-related ● Hundreds of thousands of encrypted operational messages are sent every year. information among:

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Europol’s liaison officers, analysts and experts

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Member States

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third parties with which Europol has cooperation agreements.

● In more recent years, access to SIENA has also been afforded to specialized law-enforcement units and various initiatives, such as the asset-recovery offices (AROs), police customs cooperation centres (PCCCs), passenger-information units (PIUs), financial intelligence units (FIUs), fugitive active search teams (ENFAST), special tactics units (ATLAS), Nordic LOs initiative and Lake of Constance initiative. ● In the beginning of 2020, 49 counter-terrorism authorities were connected to dedicated SIENA counter-terrorism environment

In 2019: ● 85 thousand new cases were initiated (a 28 % increase over 2017 ; 10 % increase over 2018). ● 1.24 million operational messages were exchanged (12% more than in 2018) ● 1 800 competent national authorities from 49 countries and 14 international partners (it is foreseen that in 2020 the number of connected competent authorities will exceed 2 000 ) ● There were more than 12 000 active SIENA users....