Specialist committees and working groups made up of experts appointed by the national delegations discuss and develop policy papers on a wide range of areas affecting the European legal profession.
Surveillance Working Group
Aims to ensure the protection of professional secrecy as a fundamental guarantee of the rule of law in relation to governmental practices involving the interception and tracking of communications data for the purpose of surveillance and law enforcement. To that end, the working group monitors and responds to relevant national and European policy developments and court cases, and liaises with the global legal profession on the subject.
Members
CORDING
Sebastian
Germany
MITCHELL, KC
Iain G.
United Kingdom
DROZD
Anna
GERSTBERGER
Dominic
Austria
KYNAST
Britta
Austria
BRESART
Marianne
Belgium
SCHELLINGEN
Erik
Belgium
CHRISTOFIDES
PANTELIS
Cyprus
DVORAKOVA RECOVA
Alzbeta
Czech Republic
NOVAK
Jiri
Czech Republic
GIURANNA
Stéphane
France
MARTINE
Guillaume
France
NIORÉ
Vincent
France
ALBRECHT
David
Germany
ANAGNOSTAKIS
Alexis
Greece
DIAMANTOPOULOS
Sotiris
Greece
FELIOS
Sotiris
Greece
HOMOKI
Peter
Hungary
GALLUS
Giovanni Battista
Italy
PELLEGRINO
Alessio
Italy
SECCHIERI
Carla
Italy
DYMITRUK
Maria
Poland
TRĘTOWSKI
Bartłomiej
Poland
WITKOWSKA
Magdalena
Poland
DAVÓ-FERNÁNDEZ
José-María
Spain
MAGDALENA
Carlos
Spain
VAN DER DEIJL
Tessa
The Netherlands
WESTDIJK
Michele
The Netherlands
Documents
CCBE position on the proposal for a regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse (25/11/2022)
CCBE Position Paper on the Proposal for Regulation amending Regulation (EU) 2016/794, as regards Europol’s cooperation with private parties, the processing of person...
CCBE Guidance on the use of remote working tools by lawyers and remote court proceedings (27/11/2020)
Annex: Analyses of videoconferencing tools
CCBE written comments on Draft 2nd Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime (08/11/2019)
CCBE Assessment of the U S CLOUD Act (28/02/2019)
CCBE recommendations on the establishment of international rules for cross border access to e-evidence (28/02/2019)
CCBE position on Commission proposal Regulation on European Production and Preservation Orders for e evidence in criminal matters (19/10/2018)
CCBE Preliminary comments on the Commission proposal for a Regulation on European Production and Preservation Orders for electronic evidence in criminal matters (29/06...
CCBE comments on the Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the first annual review of the functioning of the EU US Privacy Shield (M...
Brief of the CCBE as amicus curiae in support of respondent in Microsoft Ireland Case (January 2018)
CCBE Response to the Public Consultation on improving cross border access to electronic evidence in criminal matters (20/10/2017)
CCBE Comments on the Review of the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement (25/09/2017)
Second open CCBE Letter regarding the interception of communications between Julian Assange and his lawyers (31/07/2023)
CCBE Open letter on the signature and ratification of the Second additional protocol of the Budapest Convention (27/04/2022)
Joint letter on e-evidence (18/05/2021)
Open letter on CCBE contribution to the trilogue on the e evidence proposal (30/03/2021)
CCBE Letter regarding the interception of communications between Julian Assange and his lawyers (24/02/2020)
CCBE comments WP29 Guidelines on Article 49 GDPR (29/03/2018)
CCBE Letter to Polish Parliament regarding draft law on amendements to the law on Police (12/01/2016)
CCBE Letter to UK Immigration and Security Minister regarding confidential lawyer client communications (19/03/2015)
International rules for cross-border access to e-evidence: CCBE urges the Commission to postpone negotiations with the U.S. and the Council of Europe (06/03/2019)
Electronic surveillance: MEPs join European lawyers calling on the EU and its Member States to protect the rule of law (24/01/2018)
The CCBE argues against the position of the United States on the extraterritorial application of search warrants (25/01/2018)
CCBE Recommendations on the protection of fundamental rights in the context of "national security" (29/03/2019)
CCBE Guidance on Improving the IT Security of Lawyers Against Unlawful Surveillance (2016)
CCBE recommendations on the protection of client confidentiality within the context of surveillance activities (2016)