Surveillance by intelligence services – Volume II: field perspectives and legal update
Table 2:
Expert bodies (excluding DPAs) overseeing intelligence services in the EU
EU Member
Expert Bodies
State
AT
Legal Protection Commissioner (Rechtsschutzbeauftragter)
Standing Intelligence Agencies Review Committee (Vast Comité van Toezicht op de inlichtingen - en
BE
veiligheidsdiensten/Comité permanent de Contrôle des services de renseignement et de sécurité)
Administrative Commission (Bestuurlijke Commissie/Commission Administrative)
National Bureau for Control over Special Intelligence Means
BG
(Национално бюро за контрол на специалните разузнавателни средства)
CY
Three-Member Committee (Τριμελής Επιτροπή) [Not yet in place]
CZ
N.A.
G 10 Commission (G 10-Kommission)
DE
Independent Committee (Unabhängiges Gremium)
DK
The Danish Intelligence Oversight Board (Tilsynet med Efterretningstjenesterne)
EE
N.A.
Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy
EL
(Αρχή Διασφάλισης του Απορρήτου των Επικοινωνιών)
ES
N.A.
FI
N.A.
National Commission for Control of Intelligence Techniques
FR
(Commission nationale de contrôle des techniques de renseignement)
Council of State special formation
Council for Civilian Oversight of Security and Intelligence Services
HR
(Vijeće za građanski nadzor sigurnosno-obavještajnih agencija)
HU
N.A.
IE
Complaints Referee
IT
N.A.
LT
N.A.
Supervisory committee (autorité de contrôle) of Act of 2 August 2002
LU
Commission (commission) of the Criminal Investigation Code (Code d’Instruction Criminelle)
LV
N.A.
MT
Commissioner of the Security Service (Kummissarju tas-Servizz ta’ Sigurtà)
The Review Committee on the Intelligence and Security Services
NL
(Commissie van Toezicht op de Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten)
PL
N.A.
Council for the Oversight of the Intelligence System of the Portuguese Republic (Conselho de
PT
Fiscalização do Sistema de Informações da República Portuguesa)
RO
N.A.
Swedish Foreign Intelligence Inspectorate (Statens inspektion för försvarsunderrättelseverksamheten)
SE
Commission on Security and Integrity Protection (Säkerhets- och integritetsskyddsnämnden)
Defence Intelligence Court (Försvarsunderrättelsedomstolen)
SI
N.A.
SK
N.A.
UK *
Investigatory Powers Commissioner
Notes:
N.A. = not applicable (no expert body exists)
* On September 1 2017, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner took over from the former Intelligence Service
Commissioner and Interceptions of Communications Commissioner..
Source:
FRA, 2017
members have been hired and trained for the secretariat,
rules of procedure prepared and secure facilities set up.256
256 Lorenz, P. (2017), ‘BND-Kontrolle am BHG: Unabhängiges Gremium
nimmt Arbeit auf’, Legal Tribune Online, 9 March 2017; and Dreusicke,
L. (2017), ‘Präsidentin des BGH in Osnabrück: Wer das Ausspähen des
BND kontrollieren soll’, Osnabrücker Zeitung, 27 April 2017.
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For the purpose of this report, DPAs are considered to be
oversight expert bodies. They are specialised bodies that
have been specifically tasked with safeguarding privacy
and data protection in EU Member States. The Court of
Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has held in a series
of judgments that supervision by DPAs is an essential