PEPPER Deliverable 3 presents the technology issues that are emerging at the brink of EU institution of cross border enforcement. Each member state has its own proprietary IT solution to record, process and send TLE data between police, public prosecutor and courts. The technology challenge is to develop and implement a common denominator that can capture all these inhouse data and can communicate these to the appropriate authorities in an efficient and language independent manner across the borders of the EU member states. Receiving parties/member states have to be absolutely confident that the received data is reliable, secure, and safe and can be used without any further burden of proof. The objective is to provide an overview and some conclusions that can be used by policy makers, like the EU and the member states, on implementing cross border enforcement. Main implication is that a standardised IT concept has to be put on top of the national TLE systems, to be organised, managed, and operated in a common EU concept, accepted by all member states. This can only be achieved if there will be a European legislative instrument that will institutionalise cross border enforcement. Without such a legislative instrument there will be no progress whatsoever on this IT technology development. (Author/publisher) For the project website, and other reports, see http://www.vtt.fi/sites/pepper/
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