Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 35:

In page 151, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following:

“CHAPTER 8
Recognition of accredited forensic service providers carrying out laboratory activities

Definitions (Chapter 8)
135. In this Chapter—“accredited”, in relation to a forensic service provider carrying out laboratory activities, means the forensic service provider is accredited by a national accreditation body as complying with the standard EN ISO/IEC 17025 entitled “General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories”
“dactyloscopic data” means fingerprint images, images of fingerprint latents, palm prints,palm print latents and templates of such images (coded minutiae);
“forensic service provider” means any organisation, whether public or private, that carries out laboratory activities at the request of competent law enforcement or judicial authorities in the State or a Member State;
“Irish National Accreditation Board” means the committee commonly known by that name established pursuant to section 10 of the Industrial Development Act 1993;
“laboratory activities” means measures taken in a laboratory when locating and recovering traces on items, as well as developing, analysing and interpreting forensic evidence, with a view to providing expert opinions or exchanging forensic evidence;
“national accreditation body” means—

(a) in the case of the State, the Irish National Accreditation Board, and
(b) in the case of a Member State, the sole body in the Member State that performs accreditation with authority derived from the Member State in accordance with
Regulation (EC) No. 765/2008;

“results”, in relation to laboratory activities, means any analytical outputs and directly associated interpretation.”.