Second Round of Negotiations of an EU-U.S. Treaty on Access to Electronic Evidence

On November 8, 2019, the European Commission submitted an EU-restricted report to the Council of the European Union on the progress of the negotiation of an EU-U.S. agreement on cross-border access to electronic evidence (“e-evidence”). Specifically, the Commission updated the Council on the results of the second round of negotiations in view of an agreement between the European Union and the United States of America on cross-border access to electronic evidence for judicial cooperation in criminal matters on November 6, 2019.[1]