Committee to take evidence on policing and security cooperation arrangements after Brexit

Committee to take evidence on policing and security cooperation arrangements after Brexit

Tuesday 5 December 2017

Venue: Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster

Witnesses

At 9.30am

• ·         Sir Alan Dashwood QC, Emeritus Professor of European Law, University of Cambridge, and Barrister, Henderson Chambers
• ·         Piet Eeckhout, Professor of EU Law, University College London
• ·         Valsamis Mitsilegas, Professor of European Criminal Law, Queen Mary University of London

At 10.30am

• ·         Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner
• ·         Steve Wood, Deputy Information Commissioner – Policy
• ·         Professor Lorna Woods, Director of Research, School of Law, University of Essex

Issues likely to be covered in this session include:

• ·         The legal status of the UK during a transitional or implementation period after Brexit
  • ·         Future UK-EU security treaty options
  • ·         UK membership of Europol and use of the European Arrest Warrant during a transitional or implementation period
  • ·         Data protection and data exchange on criminal matters with the EU after Brexit
  • ·         The UK’s future relationship with the European Court of Justice

Background information

The Committee is examining the challenges which the Home Office faces in planning for and implementing post-Brexit arrangements in an overarching inquiry into Home Office delivery of Brexit. This work is being taken forward in three discrete strands: policing and security cooperation is one of these; the others are immigration services and customs operations.