European Communities - Tenth Report
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CONTENTS
FINGERPRINTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS:
EXTENDING THE EURODAC CONVENTION
REPORT
The fingerprinting of asylum seekers
and illegal immigrants
The position under domestic law
The co-ordination of policy within the EU
The Dublin Convention
The Eurodac Convention
The Protocol extending Eurodac to Illegal
Immigrants
Implications of the Amsterdam Treaty
Weighing up the options
The enquiry
PART 2: ISSUES AND EVIDENCE
The legal basis of the draft Eurodac
Convention and Protocol
The UK opt-out
Need for the Protocol
The principle of fingerprinting
Article 8 of the European Convention on Human
Rights
Potential inconsistencies with Article 8
ECHR
The justification for fingerprinting - the
Government's approach
(i) Is there a legitimate
aim?
(ii) Is fingerprinting "in
accordance with the law"?
(iii) Is fingerprinting necessary and
proportionate?
Will it work? - Unclear definitions
Article 3
Article 7
Practical difficulties
Data protection
PART 3: OPINION
The need for the protocol
Clarity and legal certainty
Article 3
Article 7
Human rights
Article 8(2) of the European Convention on
Human Rights
Article 16 of the United Nations Convention
on the Rights of the Child
Data protection
The implications of the Amsterdam Treaty
The marriage of intergovernmental and Community
instruments
Conclusion
RECOMMENDATION
Appendix 1—Membership of Sub-Committee
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Appendix 2—List of witnesses
Appendix 3—DUBLIN CONVENTION, EURODAC
CONVENTION AND EURODAC PROTOCOL
Appendix 4—The Committee's correspondence
regarding the draft EURODAC Convention
Letter from Lord Tordoff, Chairman
of the Select Committee on the European Communities to Ms Joyce
Quin MP, Minister of State at the Home Office
Letter from Ms Joyce Quin MP, Minister
of State at the Home Office to Lord Tordoff, Chairman of the Select
Committee on the European Communities
Extract from Explanatory Note submitted
by the Home Office
Letter from JUSTICE to Lord Tordoff, Chairman
of the Select Committee on the European Communities
Letter from Lord Tordoff, Chairman of
the Select Committee on the European Communities to Joyce Quin
MP, Minister of State at the Home Office
Letter from Joyce Quin MP, Minister of
State at the Home Office to Lord Tordoff, Chairman of the Select
Committee on the European Communities
Letter from Joyce Quin MP, Minister of
State at the Home Office to Lord Tordoff, Chairman of the Select
Committee on the European Communities
Letter from Lord Tordoff, Chairman of
the Select Committee on the European Communities to Joyce Quin
MP, Minister of State at the Home Office
Letter from JUSTICE to Lord Tordoff, Chairman
of the Select Committee on the European Communities
Letter from the Immigration Law Practitioners'
Association
Memorandum by the Immigration Law Practitioners'
Association
Letter from Joyce Quin MP, Minister of
State at the Home Office to Lord Tordoff, Chairman of the Select
Committee on the European Communities
Letter from Lord Tordoff, Chairman of
the Select Committee on the European Communities to Joyce Quin
MP, Minister of State at the Home Office
Letter from Joyce Quin MP, Minister of
State at the Home Office to Lord Tordoff, Chairman of the Select
Committee on the European Communities
NOTE: Pages of the Report
and Appendices are numbered in bold type; pages of evidence are
numbered in ordinary type. References in the text of the Report
are as follows:
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