Under the Chairmanship of Dragutin Mate, President of the Justice and Home Affairs Council, the EU interior ministers discussed, during a working lunch at Brdo pri Kranju, the development of the second-generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) and the Proposal for a Council Framework Decision on the use of airline Passenger Name Record (PNR) for law enforcement purposes, which had been put forward by the European Commission in November 2007.

 The first informal ministerial meeting under Slovenia's Presidency - i.e. the meeting of the EU Council on Justice and Home Affairs - will be held from 24 to 26 January 2008 at Brdo. The meeting will be hosted by the Minister of Justice Dr Lovro Šturm, and Minister of the Interior Dragutin Mate.

More on the Ministry of the Interior website (Informal Meeting of Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs, 24 -26 January at Brdo)