Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-05-Speech-3-233"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-07-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Interception of bank transfer data from the SWIFT system by the US secret services (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060705.18.3-233"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-07-05-Speech-3-2342
lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Marinus Wiersma2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; SEDE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Partij van de Arbeid (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it is important that we use today’s debate to respond to the SWIFT case. The present resolution contains a number of pertinent questions that have to be asked, because anxiety levels among the public shoot up when they read stories of that kind in the newspapers. As in the debates held earlier today, this is yet another case of weighing up security interests against the interests of the civil liberties involved in public and corporate privacy. Once again, this is about activities in the framework of the fight against international terrorism, which may well be carried out behind the backs of the monitoring bodies and may well be in contravention of international agreements guaranteeing fundamental rights and freedoms. Although I do not want to draw direct comparisons between this case and the issue of CIA flights, the SWIFT case is not an isolated one, but an example of the way in which the Americans, in particular, hope to fight terrorism. Today’s debate is yet again an example of the need for discussing the nature of the war we are waging. In this case too, we should ask ourselves whether all the rules have been complied with. There is the suspicion, which has also been confirmed, that the European institutions were informed. We want to know exactly what their responsibility in this case is and to what extent they have already been involved in monitoring the implementation of existing rules. Above all, however, we want to prevent a situation in which we all operate in some kind of grey area, with the creation of a legal vacuum in which even the citizens no longer know where they stand. The draft resolution contains a number of pertinent comments in that respect. We also want – and this is something that the Commissioner has already mentioned – clarification about the role of the European institutions. In addition, we want any legal loopholes plugged, thus making sure that if a similar exchange of data were to prove necessary in future, it would only be done with solid underpinning and in full compliance with certain guarantees and minimum standards. We would also like to see the Member States being called to account about the implementation of the agreed rules. Once again, we must really prevent people from getting the feeling that they are in a legal vacuum. All loopholes in legislation must be plugged."@en1

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