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EU Backing Down on Terror List Secrecy

Andrew Rettman writes on EU Observer:

EU states are planning to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding how names appear on their list of terrorist entities "in the near future" - but in the meantime member states are breaking their own laws, some lawyers say.

The list - which numbers 54 individuals and 50 groups - sees EU states vote every six months on which names should go in or out on the basis of secret evidence submitted by "competent national authorities" with "guilty" parties facing stigma and frozen bank accounts.

But following a December 2006 ruling by the EU court in Luxembourg, suspects will now be sent "statements of motivation" setting out the evidence against them and instructions on how to mount a legal challenge in a potential watershed for EU security work.

posted by Fergie @ 1/16/2007 11:01:00 AM