Proposal for a Regulation concerning the establishment of ‘EURODAC’ for the comparison of fingersprints for the effective application of Regulation (EC)…, establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member States responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person (recast), COM (2008) 825 Final

The short Briefing Note offers a general assessment of the Commission's proposal. It underlines, in particular, questions related to the procedure for taking fingerprints, advance data erasure, the problem of third-country nationals found illegally present within the territory of a Member State and the role of the European Data Protection Supervisor.

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