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"Mr President, it looks as if, on 1 January 2004, we are going to be given a European Network and Information Security Agency. I welcome that. The agency is an important factor in securing the networks and the information society. We must hope that, on this occasion, the ends justify the means because there are, unfortunately, a number of things to complain about in the outcome. The fact that Parliament and the Council have reached an agreement in the course of the first reading entails, in this case, losses for both Parliament and the industry. The agency’s management board has become too large, with a representative for each Member State, and the industry has had to give way, together with other areas of civil society.
My amendment, which was aimed at bringing about transparency in the application and appointment procedure, will no doubt acquire significance in the longer term. The Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs was united in supporting it, but it disappeared in the course of discussion through an administrative mistake by the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy. In other words, the Council’s wheeling and dealing
with authorities that infringe legislation, and vice versa, continues without any democratic scrutiny.
I have a couple of messages for the Commission and the Council prior to the joint
declaration
that is now to be drawn up. Guarantee long-term transparency in the application procedure. Exploit and develop the EU’s cooperation with the United States and other third countries. Ensure that network security is achieved in accordance with the common guidelines that have already been approved in a Council resolution and that have been signed by ten of the Member States, together with six other countries. Develop the EU guidelines around what individual Member States are already applying.
Last week, a delegation from Parliament visited Washington and experienced on the spot what should become our future style. An EU singing from the same hymn sheet should facilitate our foreign relations, especially with the United States. Through this agency, we can now jointly develop data protection in all its different dimensions, and that is good."@en1
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