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Mr President, I am only sorry that we have not had opportunities on previous occasions to set out some of the arguments in greater detail. I apologise for speaking for so long at the beginning of this debate, but I would just like to respond to one point.
I am now drawing to the end of a rather excessively long political career and I have got a pretty thick skin. But when somebody accuses me of behaving like the policeman presenting corrupt evidence, I have to say that I regard that as an attack on my honesty and my honour. I hope the honourable Member will think pretty hard about what he said. I would like to say this to the honourable Member: what if there is no agreement? What if we wait for six months until we get an opinion? We have little doubt about what an opinion would be from the European Court of Justice. What if?
I will make one simple point. Taking into account the reservations that I expressed earlier about onward transfer, if the proposed package of an adequacy finding and an international agreement is suspended, it is undoubtedly the case that some data protection authorities will have very little choice but to start ordering airlines to suspend data transfers with all the consequences for airlines and passengers that this would provoke. When that happens, who will be blamed? You will not see the honourable Member and some others for a puff of dust! Everybody
will get the blame; everybody else will be blamed for the uncertainty.
I say this in all conscience: we have thought about these issues extremely carefully. Nobody should think we have blazed into this with no regard for civil liberties. I happen to think that what we are proposing is much better than what we would have if we did not put these arrangements in place, and that we would have greater protection for civil liberties than would otherwise be the case.
I hope that when the Parliament votes on this it will not do so on the basis that the honourable Member and everybody else is moral, honest and right, and the rest of us are corrupt and dishonourable. I hope Parliament will recognise that we have tried to provide some legal certainty and that even if there is a disagreement, we have tried to behave in a way which is honourable and sensible and in a way which will be more favourable and more sensible for airlines and for passengers in the months and years ahead."@en1
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