On December 12, 2017, the European Data Protection Supervisor ("EDPS") adopted Opinion 11/2017 on the Proposal for a Regulation on ECRIS-TCN. The opinion recommends that ECRIS (a system for sharing information about criminal convictions in the context of judicial cooperation) and ECRIS-TCN (the ECRIS system used for non-EU country nationals) follow the data protection principle of purpose limitation. As such, the opinion suggests that any access by EU bodies be necessary, proportionate, and strictly limited to relevant tasks within the mandate of those EU bodies.
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