Transparency and Proportionality in the Schengen Information System and Border Control Co-Operation

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16223-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 468 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 924 g

Reihe: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library

This volume offers an evaluation of the Schengen Information System and border control co-operation from a transparency and proportionality perspective. It also incorporates a legal descriptive analysis of the co-operation in order to accommodate the changes and developments that occurred during the writing period. The transparency and proportionality perspectives are developed from human rights and data protection criteria. Transparency is understood as knowledge and accessibility to legal information as well as openness and accountability. On the other hand, proportionality is a requirement for guidance, balance and justification as well as a need to avoid excessiveness and arbitrariness in border control work. The final findings reveal that the Schengen co-operation suffers from a deficiency of transparency and proportionality. Consequently, measures are proposed to augment the deficiency. Even as this study was reaching its conclusion, fundamental legislative changes, closely similar to some of the arguments and recommendations projected in this study, took place. The efficacy of these changes is yet to be discerned.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karanja, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures; Table of Cases; Foreword; Preface; Part I: Background to the Research and the Schengen Co-operation; 1 Introduction; 2 An Overview of the Schengen Co-operation; Part II: Theoretical Framework; 3 Human Rights Law and Schengen; 4 International Human Rights Information Privacy; 5 Data Protection Laws and Schengen; 6 Data Protection Principles and Interests; Part III: Information Systems; 7 The Schengen Information System and the SIRENE; 8 SIS Compliance with Article 8 ECHR and Data Protection Principles; 9 A Network of Related Cross-Border Information Systems; Part IV: Border Control Technologies and Policies; 10 Border Control and Identification Techniques; 11 Border Control Legal Measures and Policies; Part V: Recommendations and Postscript; 12 Post-11 September Protection of Individuals; Postscript; Appendix; index

Über Autor(innen)

Karanja, Stephen
Dr. Stephen K. Karanja is currently a senior researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. He wrote this book when he worked as a researcher at the Section for Information Technology and Administrative Systems at the University of Oslo. He has also worked and practiced as an advocate of the High Court in Kenya.

Dr. Stephen K. Karanja is currently a senior researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. He wrote this book when he worked as a researcher at the Section for Information Technology and Administrative Systems at the University of Oslo. He has also worked and practiced as an advocate of the High Court in Kenya.