Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-12-Speech-3-164"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-12-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Access to documents as implemented by Council and Commission2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011212.5.3-164"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-12-12-Speech-3-1652
lpv:speaker	lp:Heidi Hautala2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Presidents (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 chair; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Vihreät (1999-07-20--2003-03-25)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I also subscribe to those questions which my colleagues have put to the Council and to the Commission. In particular, I would like to ask that this committee for interinstitutional cooperation finally be established, in order that genuine transparency can be brought into effect as required by this Regulation. I also share the view of Mr Cashman that Parliament cannot approve the secretaries-general carrying on discussions of these matters in the name of the politicians, since transparency is, as a basic question of democracy, a highly political matter. Now we must also look at what will be our future challenges once (hopefully) all these open questions with regard to this Regulation are resolved. This has been an important first step, but we still have lots of new challenges. I would like to mention some of these. In my opinion, what threatens to become an even larger problem is the matter which Mr Watson, Chairman of the Committee on Citizens’ Freedom and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, mentioned in a seminar yesterday: this anti-terrorist activity and the questions of the third pillar are leading towards an intolerable situation, since the Council continues to enact these anti-terrorism laws behind tightly closed doors, and the Parliament has virtually zero influence in these matters. In my opinion we must meet this challenge; questions of the third pillar must be properly brought within the sphere of public access to documents. Otherwise, there will be no democratic responsibility of any kind as far as these matters are concerned. Secondly, I wish to mention a problem which relates to the protection of personal data. In my view we have a genuine problem here as well. Certainly we must protect personal data, but we cannot approve a situation where (for example) the names and personal details of representatives of industry who are taking part in Commission negotiations can be kept secret in the name of data protection. No, this idea is erroneous; and in these matters we must be careful to operate on the side of transparency, and so we certainly have our work cut out for us."@en1

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