164
United Kingdom
ISC
2016 on
(09.2015 to 07.2016)**
✓
21
✓
✓
✓
✓ (25 sessions)
✓ (17)
✓
-****
✓
✓******
✓
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
✓
N.A.
✓
✓
✓
FRA, 2017
✓
26
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
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2017*
Sweden
Defence Committee
Source:
Germany
PKGr
2016 on
(11.2013 to 11.2015)
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14
✓
✓
✓
✓ (32 sessions)
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
N.A
= not applicable.
–
= not mentioned or not addressed in report.
* The Defence Committee’s report is a response to the government’s report submitted to parliament, on the use of signals intelligence by the Swedish
intelligence services in 2016.
** The ISC’s Annual Report covering 2016-17 is ready but not published yet due to the dissolution of the parliament ahead of General Elections in the United
Kingdom. A summary of the ISC’s work done since
July 2016 has been published in a press statement. See United Kingdom, Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (2017).
*** Twenty-three hearings, seven interviews/exchanges of views, four visits. See France, Adam, P.,
Parliamentary Delegation on Intelligence (2017), p. 15.
****
The content of all hearings is available on ISC’s website under ‘Transcripts and Public Evidence’.
***** The DPR is informed annually by the National intelligence coordinator (Coordonateur national au renseignement) about the expenditures of the services.
See France, Adam, P., Parliamentary Delegation on Intelligence (2017), p. 22. The control of the special funds is carried out by the Audit Commission on
Special Funds (CVFS), which belongs to the DPR.
****** Only the combined budgets of MI5, SIS and GCHQ are presented in ISC’s Annual Report. The individual figures for each of the intelligence services have
been redacted because they would allow the UK’s adversaries to more accurately deduce the scale and focus of the services’ activities.
******* The DPR refers to the report by the CNCTR.
France
DPR
2017
(covering 2016)
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93
✓
✓
✓
✓ (20 sessions - 75 h.)
✓ (23)***
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✓
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N.A.
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Notes:
Obligation to report
Length (in pages)
Comment on legislation
Parliamentary committee mandate and powers
Parliamentary Committee internal functioning
Number of sessions or hours of work
Number of hearings
List of witnesses heard
Content of the hearings
Administration of the Intelligence Services
Expenditure of Intelligence Services
Policy focus/threats highlighted by the Intelligence Services
Surveillance measures
Statistics on ex post controls
Statistics on own investigations
Statistics on breaches of safeguards
Statistics on surveilled persons
Oversight methods
Remedies and statistics on complaints-handling
Inter-institutional dialogue
Recommendations
Ad hoc thematic reports
Date of latest report/reporting period
Italy
COPASIR
2017
(covering 2016)
✓
43
✓
✓
✓
✓ (59)
✓ (41)
✓ (28)
✓
✓
✓
✓
N.A.
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✓
Annex 4: K
ey features of parliamentary oversight
committees’ reports, in fieldwork
countries with public reports