Name: Rocco

Family Name: BELLANOVA

Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit Brussel – LSTS & Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis - CReSPo

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Rocco Bellanova holds a Research Masters in political science and international relations (IEP-Paris) and graduated in international relations (University of Bologna). He has been visiting student at the University of Montreal and at the IEP in Lyon. He has collaborated with the German Member of the European Parliament Alexander Alvaro, member of the LIBE Committee. At present, he is assistant and PhD student at the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL) and researcher in both the FUSL and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has contributed to the organisation of the CPDP 2009 conference. His research interests are: European and international security policies based on data access, data protection and fundamental rights, the development of the European Area of Justice, Freedom and Security.

Title of the presentation

Prüm extended: EU and US on the edge of a new, major step towards transatlantic cooperation

Abstract

A growing number of security policies are based on access and exchange of personal data, frequently with an international scope. While transatlantic measures generally include the EU as a whole actor, the last two years have seen a proliferation of bilateral agreements between the US and individual EU Member States. Those agreements generally aim at extending abroad the range of specific internal security measures.

This intervention investigates further these developments taking as a case study the conclusion, on March 2008, of a transatlantic agreement on data exchange, signed by Germany and the US. The text mirrors the wording of already existing European instruments, the Prüm Treaty and Council Decision, and thus seems to offer an appropriate occasion to analyse the process of extra-territorialization of security policies.

On-line publications

De Hert P. and Bellanova R. (2008), Data Protection from a Transatlantic Perspective: The EU and US move towards an International Data Protection Agreement?, Ad Hoc Briefing Paper for the European Parliament, DG-IPOL, Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs, Brussels.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?file=22973

Bellanova R. (2008), Accessing Personal Data for Security Purposes: Establishing Flows of Data and Shaping Actors and Fields Relations, Paper submitted and presented to the Second Global International Studies Conference – WISC 2008, University of Ljubljana.

http://www.wiscnetwork.org/papers/WISC_2008-213.pdf

Bellanova R. (2008), ‘The Prüm Process’: the way forward for EU police cooperation and data exchange?, in Guild, E. and Geyer, F. (eds.), ‘Security vs. Justice? – Police and Judicial cooperation in the European Union’, Aldershot: Ashgate.

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