Directive (EU) 2016/680 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Council Framework Decision 2008/977/JHA (c. 680)

Done at Brussels, 27 April 2016.

For the European Parliament

The President

M. Schulz

For the Council

The President

J.A. Hennis-Plasschaert