Dismantling the Tools ofreport Oppression INTERPOL 2018 Glossary of key terms and abbreviations Article 2 of the Constitution: provides that INTERPOL’s mandate is to ensure and promote international police cooperation ‘in the spirit of the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”’. Article 3 of the Constitution: provides that ‘it is strictly prohibited for the Organization to undertake any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character’; this is sometimes referred to in this Report as the ‘neutrality rule’. CCF: the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files, the body tasked under INTERPOL’s Constitution for ensuring that the processing of personal data by INTERPOL takes place in accordance with its own rules. The CCF is divided into two chambers. The Advisory and Supervisory Chamber is responsible for carrying out checks to ensure that the data stored by INTERPOL is kept and processed in accordance with INTERPOL’s rules, and it also advises INTERPOL on matters relating to the processing of personal data. The Requests Chamber is responsible for handling requests and complaints from individuals, including applications for access to information and for the deletion of data. CCF Statute: the Statute of the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files, which was adopted at the 85th INTERPOL General Assembly in 2016 and entered into force on March 2017. This statute defines the role of the CCF. Diffusion: a request for international cooperation, including the arrest, detention or restriction of movement of a convicted or accused person, sent by a National Central Bureau directly to all or a selection of other National Central Bureaus. INTERPOL: the International Criminal Police Organisation – INTERPOL. INTERPOL alert: a generic term used by Fair Trials which encompasses Red Notices and Diffusions. INTERPOL Information System: a collective term used by INTERPOL to refer to all systems used by INTERPOL for data processing for the purpose of international police cooperation. Member States: countries and territories which are members of INTERPOL. NCB: National Central Bureau, the division of the national executive authorities which acts as a contact point with INTERPOL and other NCBs, including and in particular by, issuing requests for Red Notices and Diffusions. NDTF: the Notices and Diffusions Task Force, a specialist team within INTERPOL’s General Secretariat tasked with the review of Red Notices and Diffusions. Operating Rules: Operating Rules of the CCF, which were adopted in March 2017. These replaced the previous Operating Rules (“Old Operating Rules”), which came into force in November 2008. Red Notice: electronic alerts published by the General Secretariat at the request of an NCB in order to seek the location of a wanted person and his/her detention, arrest or restriction of movement for the purpose of extradition, surrender, or similar lawful action. RPD: INTERPOL’s Rules on the Processing of Data, which entered into force on 1 July 2012, and were updated most recently in 2016. The RPD regulates the processing of information by INTERPOL and NCBs, and it includes specific conditions for Red Notices and Diffusions. 3