APPENDIX 7: LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Central SIS II Central section of the second
generation Schengen Information System
CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
DCA Department for Constitutional Affairs
DG JLS Directorate-General Justice Freedom and
Security of the Commission
DPFD Data Protection Framework Decision
DVLA Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
EC European Community
EDPS European Data Protection Supervisor
EU European Union
Europol European Police Office, set up under
a Convention between Member States
Frontex European Agency for the Management of
Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member
States
G6 ministers the ministers of the interior of
the six largest Member States: Germany, France, United Kingdom,
Italy, Spain and Poland
G6 meetings the regular six-monthly meetings
of G6 ministers
ICO Information Commissioner's Office
JHA Justice and Home Affairs
LIBE Committee Committee on Civil Liberties,
Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament
PACE Police and Criminal Evidence Act
1984
Prüm Convention The name by which the Prüm
Treaty was known in the earlier official documents
Prüm Treaty Treaty between Belgium, Germany,
Spain, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Austria on the
stepping up of cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating
terrorism, cross-border crime and illegal immigration
SIRENE Supplementary Information Request
at the National Entry
SIS Schengen Information System
SIS II Second generation Schengen Information
System
TEC Treaty establishing the European
Community
TEU Treaty establishing the European
Union
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