Tuesday, the European Commission unveiled more details concerning its five year security plan. Thereby, the EC detailed how it plans to get the Stockholm Programme to enhance security enacted into law by 2014.

The European Commission thus promises to strengthen data protection law, make ID theft a criminal offence, introduce new hacking offences, improve the rights of those accused of crimes, make cross-border debt recovery easier and introduce an "entry and exit" border security system.

The latest "concrete actions" will form the basis of laws to enact the Stockholm Programme. The EC is searching for a European-wide response to how to hand Passenger Name Records to countries outwith the EC. It also plans negotiate a long-term agreement with the US over the transfer of financial information in the name of tracking terrorists.

By 2012 the Commission aims to have criminalised identity theft across the continent. The Commission will evaluate and if necessary pass laws to improve the data retention directive by the same year.