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LIBE committee organised a delegation to the USA from 24 to 28 February 2020 which focused on LIBE competences directly impacting the EU-US relations in the area of Justice and Home Affairs: Data Protection and trends in State/Federal privacy laws, the review and functioning of the EU-US US Privacy Shield, Digital Privacy and Electronic Communications, law enforcement with attention to the US e-evidence law, Counterterrorism, PNR and AI and their use in the law enforcement and Justice.

The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs conducted a visit to the Frontex headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, on 24-25 February 2020 which was composed of 3 MEPs. The goal of this mission was to provide LIBE Members with an overview of activities of the agency, to better understand the challenges Frontex is facing in implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 on the European Border and Coast Guard and to discuss operational activities and resources.

This hearing, organised on 19 February 2020 by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), took place in the context of the Parliament's implementation report on the Dublin III Regulation, which will be presented in the LIBE Committee this spring. The report has the objective to support the work of the Parliament with regard to the Commission's New Pact on Migration and Asylum to be presented equally this spring.

On 20 February 2020, the LIBE Committee held a hearing on Artificial intelligence in criminal law and its use by the police and judicial authorities in criminal matters. This hearing was part of the work undertaken by the LIBE Committee on this topic. It looked at different questions related to the use of Artificial Intelligence in this context, such as benefits and risks of this new technology, predictive policing, facial recognition, as well as the ethical and fundamental rights implications.