17. Is concerned about the envisaged transfer of analytical information flowing from PNR data from the US authorities to police and judicial authorities in the Member States, and possibly to Europol and Eurojust, outside specific judicial procedures or police investigations, as mentioned in the DHS letter, as this should only be allowed in accordance with the existing EU-US agreements on mutual legal assistance and extradition;

In the second phase, these services could produce criminal intelligence using standardised analytical tools.

* In the longer term, the national criminal intelligence authorities can start producing criminal intelligence using standardised analytical tools on the basis of relevant law enforcement data available within the Union.

The Commission and Europol should conduct a study of the different methods in use in Member States' criminal intelligence bodies and propose by end of 2005 a European analytical methodology for criminal intelligence.

This should, at first stage, draw on information that Member States' criminal intelligence and Europol can lawfully access on the basis of current legislation and make use of available analytical tools.

(1) Council Directive 65/65/EEC of 26 January 1965 on the approximation of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action relating to medicinal products(4) requires that applications for authorisation to place a medicinal product on the market should be accompanied by a dossier containing particulars and documents relating to the results of tests and clinical trials carried out on the product. Council Directive 75/318/EEC of 20 May 1975 on the approximation of the laws of Member States relating to analytical, pharmaco-toxicological and clinical standards and protocols in respect of the testing of medicinal products(5) l ...[+++]ays down uniform rules on the compilation of dossiers including their presentation.