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"Mr President, the German Presidency deserves our congratulations for having at long last stirred up the stagnant waters of data protection under the third pillar. However, the same cannot be said for the procedures followed in the case of the Prüm Treaty.
The history of the Prüm Treaty is that it got off on the wrong foot, continued on the wrong foot and I hope that it will somehow end well. It was wrong for seven Member States to proceed initially with this Treaty by circumventing the European institutions. It was wrong for another 10 to hasten recently to declare their readiness to join this extra-institutional cooperation. The German Presidency was right to decide ultimately to integrate the Prüm Treaty into the European frameworks, but it is wrong to promote it all of a sudden, without so much as a serious evaluation of its efficacy. It is very wrong to promote it without any valid and adequate data protection framework under the third pillar and it is very wrong to promote it with such haste, thereby undermining in practice the facility for Parliament to play its advisory role in an integrated manner.
Despite the problems, Parliament has managed to draft a very good report and Mr Correia naturally deserves our warmest congratulations. A series of albeit few but serious safeguards will be adopted tomorrow on the legal and limited exchange, use and protection of DNA and data files.
I hope that the Council will adopt our amendments, in order to rescue the credibility of what is, all other things being equal, the necessary – I repeat necessary – cooperation between police forces. This cooperation has over recent years tilted dangerously towards surveillance and repression, without adequate safeguards for fundamental rights. This slippery slope is often tempting in the short term to police forces and governments, but in the long term it is extremely dangerous to the functioning of democracy."@en1
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