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lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Marinus Wiersma2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-09-25--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partij van de Arbeid (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"I should like to concur with the comments made by Mr von Boetticher, which spawned a huge number of questions last year. Parliament made a host of recommendations to the Commission and the Council to which we have never actually received a response. I assume that other Members will also be expanding on this point. I should like to focus on one aspect of last year's debate. In the resolution we adopted last year on the worldwide interception of telecommunications, a great deal of attention was devoted to the political importance of international cooperation on the part of the intelligence services. An important point in that debate was that the vast majority of this Parliament is not opposed to interception and that intelligence services are necessary even in a democracy. In the report drawn up by the temporary committee, it was emphasised that effective intelligence services are necessary in our modern society. Not only in the fight against terrorism and international crime, but also as a key element in the development of our own European security policy. If we want to accomplish autonomous capacity in the area of defence and our own intervention force within the framework of the Petersberg tasks, then the ability and capacity to gather intelligence forms part of this. This is why the European Parliament has called for better European cooperation in this area and better democratic control over the functioning of intelligence services. According to our report, this aspect too leaves a great deal to be desired in a number of countries. Under pressure from international terrorism and the events of last year, cooperation between the intelligence services seems to have improved, not only within the European Union but also with the United States. With regard to democratic control, however, little appears to have changed. European citizens are entitled to know that the privacy enshrined in their national legislation is also protected in the event of international cooperation between the intelligence services. European citizens and companies must be able to rely on the confidentiality of their communications being guaranteed in the same way across the EU. They must be given the guarantee that European intelligence services are not misused to steal company secrets but to fight criminal activities effectively. Needless to say, we should like to thank Commissioner Liikanen for informing this House about the technical aspects of the worldwide interception of communications on behalf of the Commission. It is, however, regrettable, that Commissioner Patten is not here to inform us further about the international aspects I mentioned a moment ago. Without sufficient clarity on this score, EU policy is not only incomplete but also lacks credibility."@en1
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