Brussels, 12 June – As of today, coordinated supervision of the European Union’s asylum and migration database (Eurodac) will be carried out by the Coordinated Supervision Committee (CSC). Eurodac is an information system initially designed to compare the fingerprints of asylum applicants and irregular migrants, which has evolved into a full asylum and migration management system. It plays a key role in implementing the Dublin III Regulation, which aims at determining the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application.

Operational since 15 January 2003, this system is currently used by all EU Member States as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. National DPAs supervise the processing of personal data by national authorities and its transmission to the Eurodac database (central unit), whereas the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is responsible for the supervision of the processing of personal data at the central unit and its transmission to the Member States. Coordinated supervision will now be ensured by the CSC, comprising representatives from the national DPAs and the EDPS.

Background

The CSC is a group of DPAs, which together ensure coordinated supervision of large-scale IT systems, and of EU bodies, offices and agencies falling under its scope.

The CSC enjoys an autonomous functioning and positioning, and it adopts its own rules of procedure and working methods. The Committee is established within the framework of the EDPB and the EDPB Secretariat provides the Secretariat of the CSC.

You can find more information about the CSC here.