The Intelligence Oversight Board
The Intelligence Oversight Board independently oversees PET’s processing of data on natural and legal persons, ensuring that it complies with the PET Act and any regulations issued pursuant to this act.
The Intelligence Oversight Board can gain access to all PET's information and any material of importance to the work of the Board.
Moreover, natural and legal persons can request that the Intelligence Oversight Board examines whether PET is wrongfully processing information on them. Having ensured that this is not the case, the Board will notify the requesting party.
The Intelligence Oversight Board submits an annual oversight report on PET to the Minister of Justice, who presents the report to the Intelligence Services Committee of the Danish Parliament.
The website of the Intelligence Oversight Board provides information on the Board and contains the most recent annual oversight report.
The Intelligence Services Committee
The political oversight of PET is ensured by a special parliamentary committee, the Intelligence Services Committee. The Committee was set up in 1988 to provide insight into the activities of the intelligence services.
The tasks of the Committee are set out in the act on the setting up of a committee on the intelligence services of the Danish Defence and the Danish police.
The Government must keep the Committee informed of important security and foreign policy issues of significance to the activities of the intelligence services. Furthermore, the Committee must be informed of intelligence service guidelines prior to their issuance.
If PET does not comply with a request from the Intelligence Oversight Board, the Government must notify the Committee.
The Committee consists of five MPs appointed by the political parties that are members of the Presidium of the Danish Parliament. The Committee appoints its own chairman. The members are bound by professional secrecy with respect to the information they receive as committee members.