What is the EU Law Enforcement Directive? How Law Enforcement Authorities (Should) Protect Personal Data
What is the EU Law Enforcement Directive? How Law Enforcement Authorities (Should) Protect Personal Data

Author(s): Jelena Pejić Nikić
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Civil Society, Governance, Communication studies, Security and defense, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: BCBP Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku
Keywords: EU; Foreign Policy; LED; EU Police Directive; GDPR; individual privacy
Summary/Abstract: The legislative act is known as the EU Law Enforcement Directive (LED) (known also as the EU Police Directive), a twin sister to the far more widely known General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR). Both GDPR and LED are part of a new EU legislative package that has significantly improved personal data protection standards. They were adopted in the spring of 2016 and have been in force since May 2018. While the General Regulation has garnered most of the attention from the expert community, governmental and non-governmental sector, the business world and the broader public concerned with individual privacy, the Law Enforcement Directive is rather specific – for both the circumstances in which it applies and from the approaches it adopts.

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