European Sex Offender Database
MEPs have shown support for a European Sex Offender Database. In 2007 a NSPCC report suggested the failure of EU countries to share criminal records properly and was in their opinion "leaving children at risk in the UK."
In 2008 the High Court ruled that permanent inclusion on the register was disproportionate and incompatible with the European Convention of Human Rights.
A number of European countries such as Spain, Germany and Italy that in the past have stated that sex offenders' registration as in the UK is a breach of the European Convention of Human Rights. France has though implemented a national judicial sex offender database, that has been adjudged to be legal by the European Court of Human Rights in the Gardel v. France decision.
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