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"Mr President, first of all I would like to thank Mrs Roure, the rapporteur on this very important and well-balanced report.
I recall that in the Hague Programme there is the clear obligation to ensure the exchange of law enforcement information under the principle of availability with effect from January 2008. At the same time, key conditions in the area of data protection shall be strictly observed. Therefore, the quick adoption of the framework decision on data protection in the third pillar is indispensable.
Security policy, in particular anti-terrorist policy, must respect both the obligation of the State to protect citizens against serious crimes, including terrorism, as well as the fundamental rights of the citizens to their private and family life and to personal data protection. I believe that we must ensure that there is coherence and uniformity in the principles of data protection in the European Union
between the first and the third pillar.
The Judgment of the European Court on the PNR agreement, as Mrs Roure rightly said, shows the necessity of a coherent and complete data protection regime at European level, based on clear, substantial data protection principles. In this context, in my view, the framework decision would constitute an important step forward.
The Commission has already proposed that the framework decision on data protection should be implemented by the end of 2006, before the application of the principle of availability. So I join the European Parliament and Mrs Roure in a plea to the Council to accelerate the agreement on the framework decision, taking into full account the position expressed by this Parliament.
As far as the scope of the framework decision is concerned, as many chapters as possible must apply to domestic situations, as already proposed by the Commission. In my view Member States must agree on common data protection principles that apply to all processing of personal data by the police and the judicial authorities for the purpose of prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of criminal offences, as the common basis for the exchange of personal data in full respect of such principles.
As far as the Europol/Eurojust system is concerned, the Commission agrees that in principle further approximation and facilitation of the European data protection regime should be ensured after the adoption of the framework decision in consultation with all the bodies concerned. The concrete time schedule might need further examination.
I am open to additional data protection safeguard specifications concerning biometric identifiers and/or DNA data and will look more closely at the European Parliament’s suggestions in this very important and sensitive field.
Taking into account the position of Parliament, I will reflect on the concrete procedure for assessing the level of data protection in a third country or an international body. Now in the report you are to adopt a solution which would provide that the Commission, after consulting the Council and Parliament, may establish that a third country or an international body ensures an appropriate level of protection within the meaning of the framework decision. As you can guess, I am not personally against such a solution. We will have to work closely with the Council because we need unanimity so that the final solution in any case provides, first, a mechanism ensuring that when the other conditions provided for by the framework decision are met, an adequate level of protection exists; and second, that Parliament is consulted beforehand and that due account is taken of its opinion."@en1
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