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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to make five brief observations. The first is to thank all of those who worked so hard to achieve this final outcome: the specialists and technical experts whom we invited and those who wrote and e-mailed us with their studies and opinions, the coordinators of the political groups and the Members of the European Parliament, the staff of our committee, who provided high quality support for our work and the rapporteur, Gerhard Schmid, who has produced an outstanding report and provided evidence once again of his great qualities as a human being and as a politician. It was an easy task to chair this committee with this kind of rapporteur.
Secondly, Echelon exists, whether under this name or any other. The European Parliament should be in no doubt about this.
Thirdly, Echelon runs a risk, a serious risk of its network being abused. This is a commercial risk, which compromises the concept of fair trade
but also presents a risk for civil liberties. The same Union that proclaimed the Charter of Fundamental Rights and which I hope will make it binding cannot be negligent in this matter.
Fourthly, we must improve the relationship between the European Union and the United States. We must be more effective. In our mission to the United States, we were well received by Congress but met with the hostility of the Administration. The report contains various important recommendations. Europe and the United States must cooperate fairly – and I mean fairly – for the sake of the common values that they most definitely share.
Lastly, 44 recommendations have been tabled. Giving the lie to those who predicted that the committee would not produce anything tangible, we are making 44 recommendations to the House. I must emphasise the need to strengthen the European Convention on Human Rights with regard to protecting privacy in the information society, the need for Parliamentary and judicial control over the activity of the secret services, the need to extend defence practices such as the use of cryptography and electronic signatures, and the need for the European Institutions themselves to set an example by using these technologies. Lastly, the request is made to the Union’s Member States to ensure in the future that the use of their countries by information gathering services, whether their own or of third countries, respects the European Convention on Human Rights."@en1
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