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Date: 2002-05-27
EU: Cappato zur Datenspeicherung
EU: Cappato zur Datenspeicherung
Herr Cappato [Partito Radicale IT], einer der wenigen, aber lautstarken Verteidiger der digitalen Freiheit im Europaparlament, versteht darunter nicht nur die Freiheit von Überwachung, sondern auch jene des so genannten Spams.
Related: SOS Datenschutz - Unterschriftenaktion http://www.quintessenz.org/cgi-bin/index?funktion=view&id=000100002025
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PRIVACY/EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: CAPPATO (RADICALS) "PPE AND PSE TABLE IN THE EP THE COUNCIL PROPOSALS : IN THIS WAY EUROPE WOULD AUTHORISE DATA RETENTION OF EUROPEAN CITIZENS' INTERNET AND TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS"
Brussels, 23 may 2002
European PPE (conservatives) and PSE (socialists) have tabled yesterday common amendments to the Cappato report on privacy in electronic communications, that take over the Council positions on all main issues. Their content is in striking contradiction with the EP first reading position as confirmed by the EP Civil Liberties Committee during the second reading. The discussion in the EP will take place on the 29th of May in Brussels, while the vote will follow on the next day.
Declaration by Marco Cappato, MEP of the Lista Bonino/Radical Party and EP draftsman on the EU Commission proposal on the protection of privacy in electronic communications:
"With these amendments, PPE and PSE have abandoned the stance that the EP had taken in first reading and confirmed in second reading in the EP Civil Liberties committee, without getting any politically meaningful concession from the Council. Ana Palacio Vallelersundi (PPE Spanish MEP), President of the Civil Liberties committee (and Spanish conservative Government representative in the Convention) has promoted the tabling in the EP of amendments that take over the (Spanish conservative) Presidency of the Council gaining the support of the Socialist group in the EP, with the only aim of avoiding the conciliation procedure between the Council and the EP and allowing the Spanish Presidency to close successfully the dossier. PPE MEPs, that had supported until now the freedom for Member States to decide on the regime to adopt on unsolicited commercial communications, opt-out on directories and cookies, now obey to the Spanish Presidency indications and unite with the PSE in supporting a European opt-in system - although in a softened version - in all the abovementioned cases. But the most controversial issue is that of the powers the Council wants to give to Member States to impose to Telecom and Internet service providers the retaining of data concerning citizens' communications, SMS, emails, Internet surfing. The PPE-PSE amendment (that goes beyond the legal basis of the directive, that is an internal market measure) inserts in the articles the possibility for Member States to provide for data retention, while guarantees for citizens' privacy are left to a reference to the general principles of community law and to the EU Treaty. The reference to the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights is relegated in the PPE-PSE amendment in the recitals (while the EP had included it in the articles). I appeal to MEPs to ask them to vote following their conscience and not on a party basis, and to follow my request to delete from the articles of the directive the reference to data retention of citizens' communications."
For more informations: Marco Cappato offices: 0032 2 2847496 mcappato@europarl.eu.int www.radicalparty.org
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published on: 2002-05-27
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