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"Mr President, I would like to thank my colleague, Mr Hernández Mollar, for his valuable work in drafting this report. In matters of data protection we have to make the difficult compromise between the protection of privacy, the safety of our citizens, and the stability of the Single Market. A basic pre-condition of a market in a Europe with no internal borders is that information flows unhindered and fast. As the visible supervision of the movement of goods and services has come to an end, the importance of so-called invisible supervision has grown year after year. The rapid exchange of information between official bodies is the only chance we have of preventing criminal exploitation of the benefits of this free movement.
The level of data protection in today’s bit streams is still not adequate in the European Union. The fundamental human right of confidentiality as far as mail is concerned is being jeopardised, for example through criminal activity and inquiries carried out using email systems. The rapid growth in
commerce in particular is posing new threats to the protection of data concerning our citizens. For example, the theft of credit card information and the abuse of personal ID are growing dramatically in the information networks. In addition, databases established for purposes of marketing, which contain details of people’s way of life and consumer habits, are often in conflict with basic rights which are there to protect privacy. It is reasonable to suppose that the work of the various data protection bodies working now in the EU area can be made more effective through centralisation.
The founding of a joint body with respect to the work of Europol, customs control and the ordinary fundamental rights of EU citizens is an excellent idea. At the same time, however, we must ensure that there are adequate resources available. The workload is increasing at a ferocious rate. And one must clarify ways of making data protection cooperation more effective between the Secretariat to be created and the national authorities. The independence of data protection bodies is the key to success here. Supervision always leads to difficult interpretations of a situation, the outcome of which many players may well wish to influence, owing to purely financial interests. Because of this, the bodies will have to work in close cooperation with the EU and national courts of justice. The European Parliament must monitor closely the work and accountability of the official Secretariat to be set up from a position of impartiality."@en1
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