1. Homeland Security comes to the EU: European Commission publishes Action Plan on terrorism (and crime):
- plans cover terrorism but also include measures which have nothing to do with combating terrorism
- fingerprinting for EU passports and ID cards to be mandatory
- European Registry on convictions to be created on all crimes
- European Registry of all travel documents to be created
- EU passenger name records (PNR) to be collected and put on database
- UK demanding EU-wide mandatory data retention of communications
see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/...meland-sec.htm