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Mr President, the first question concerns Libya, and I can briefly say that the Commission’s first report on Libya, which I set out to the Home Affairs Ministers precisely on 14 April, as Mr Catania has mentioned, highlighted some worrying factors.
That report is available – it is certainly not secret – but precisely because of the issues and questions that arose during the meeting with the Home Affairs Ministers we decided to send a second technical mission to Libya to visit places where there are people who have been repatriated or are waiting to be able to come to Europe.
The results of this second mission are not yet available, but the mission has already completed its work and I shall be referring to it at the next Council of Home Affairs Ministers on 2 or 3 June – I do not remember exactly when. There I shall put forward practical measures which will certainly be based on the need to provide protection
therefore in Libya as well – for the fundamental rights of people who have entered either legally or illegally and who in any case are entitled to be treated with dignity as human beings. Parliament will, of course, be kept informed on an ongoing basis.
Regarding data protection, Baroness Ludford, you are well aware of the extent to which this subject is a constant concern of mine. One way to point out the right road is to say that personal data cannot be accessed except for the specific purposes for which access is permitted by law. We must not allow extensions by analogy: as it is permitted for certain purposes, we can extend it to other purposes too. That cannot be allowed.
If we start being specific about this and saying, for instance, that only certain authorities are allowed access to people’s private data and not others, we will be starting to set out some guidelines. I shall just give one example, of which you are aware: the Home Affairs Ministers have asked me to give the investigative authorities greater powers to access existing databases. My reply is that access rights may be extended if in parallel we increase protection for those data through a proposal under the third pillar, which, I assure you, we are going to submit by the end of this year. In my view, the answer is ‘we have to be clear’.
There are purposes that must be interpreted strictly, as lawyers say, so that if access to the data is allowed for one purpose, it cannot be allowed for another. That is the initial basis on which I have begun to work.
My final topic is the victims of crime: we shall also submit proposals for giving financial assistance, not directly to individual victims, but for instance to organisations and institutions concerned with providing care – including psychological care – for those escaping from violence or people trafficking or fleeing from traffickers. There are many forms of assistance, including practical assistance, for individuals who have been victims of crime; we cannot maintain individual financial relationships, but we can develop them through specific institutions and organisations. We shall concern ourselves precisely with alleviating the effects on those who have suffered the tragic consequences of crime."@en1
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