Roadmap on Lawful and Effective Access to Data
Summary
The Roadmap for lawful and effective access to data for law enforcement sets out the conditions that should govern access to digital evidence. It says access must be necessary, proportionate, founded on clear, precise and accessible legal rules, subject to independent oversight and accompanied by effective remedies. The roadmap identifies deleted data, jurisdictional conflicts, difficult device forensics, encryption and limited analytical capacity as obstacles to obtaining criminal evidence.
Action items
1–6 of 19 items
Source order · D = digital dimension- Item 1
In 2025, the Commission will prepare an impact assessment with a view to updating EU rules on data retention as appropriate.
- Item 2
With the continued support of the Commission, Europol and Eurojust are urged to build on the SIRIUS project to streamline cooperation with electronic communications service providers.
- Item 3
Europol and Eurojust are urged to develop, in cooperation with the private sector, a catalogue of data that electronic communications providers process for their business purposes (to start in Q4 2025).
- Item 4
Propose measures to improve the efficiency of cross-border requests for lawful interception through existing instruments, including assessing the need to further strengthen the European Investigation Order (by 2027);
- Item 5
Explore measures to create a level-playing field for all types of communication providers in the enforcement of lawful interception obligations;
- Item 6
determine the most efficient approach to tackle non-cooperative communication providers;