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"Mr President, I should like to compliment the Commission on sticking with the negotiations with the USA over the last two years. The reality is that data is flowing across the Atlantic and we, and our citizens, have no protection at present. So the question for us must be: do we give them the protection that is on offer or do we say it is not enough? If we do that, then what will happen?
Concerns have rightly been raised about the access for individuals to redress and compensation. But this raises the fundamental debate about the clash of legal cultures which has been so central to these negotiations. Clearly, as an elected Parliament, we have a duty to protect our citizens, but I fear that the conditionality in paragraph 7 of Mrs Paciotti's report endangers the whole agreement, for it could hardly be more fundamental to the debate about adequacy or equivalence. We are in a global context here and
commerce will continually throw at us clashes of legal systems and style. Yet we cannot attempt to change the way the Americans deal with their own national legislation and legal system. They have their way and we have ours. They will come to their own conclusions about how they will change their system. Yes, they are considering it; yes, they have had several annual reports about the protection of personal data. I wish we had that within our European Union.
I urge colleagues in the vote tomorrow to give protection to our citizens now. Conditionality will mean no protection now. But if we express our very strong reservations and to ask for clear review, this will give our citizens protection now and offer us progress in this very difficult area."@en1
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