EU policy “putsch”: Data protection handed to the DG for “law, order and security

From Statewatch website:

"In a little reported decision the full European Commission meeting on 11 February 2005 the policy brief for data protection in the EU was transferred from the Directorate-General on the Internal Market to the Directorate-General on "Freedom, justice and security". There was no public debate and no consultation with national or European parliaments."