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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, these are good times for those of us who work in the realm of home-affairs policy. On the one hand, we can see progress being made in pursuit of the area of security and justice with the Prüm and VIS instruments, while on the other hand we can also see progress on civil rights with the framework decision on data protection.
I should like to focus on data protection. In the third pillar we have taken a real step forward. I must stress that we in this House, including my political group, have great faith in the public authorities. When we speak of protecting data, this is not intended to sound like distrust. Much progress has been achieved, and the successes connected with the integration of the Prüm Convention in particular are there for all to see. To my honourable colleague Alexander Alvaro I have to say that I am less worried about the anticipated high volumes of stored data; on the contrary, I am delighted that they will enable us to solve thousands of serious crimes in Europe and to give people security.
The data-protection framework restores the balance between the existing and necessary powers of our authorities on the one hand and people’s civil rights on the other. There are still many unanswered questions, but we are now taking a step forward. I would like to emphasise that we in the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats support a clearly defined data-protection framework, which we regard as a very important objective.
At the end of the day, it was a hard nut to crack. I should therefore like to express my appreciation to everyone involved in the effort: the German Presidency, without which this progress would have been inconceivable, Martine Roure, who negotiated magnificently on behalf of Parliament, and, of course, our Commissioner, Franco Frattini, who lent us suitably vigorous support.
I would still point out to the Council that a few objections, albeit far fewer than before, are still surfacing in the discussion of the data-protection framework. We hope that a result can nevertheless be achieved and that we can sign, seal and deliver the whole package.
With regard to the procedure, let me say that my own personal view is that, in the area covered by the Prüm Convention, we would not have progressed so far in the domain of police cooperation by today if certain Member States had not sailed ahead as flagships, for it took their success to enable us to achieve these present results in the Council. For that reason I have no problems with the procedure. All I would say – and this is also addressed to the Council – is that, when it comes to incorporating the Prüm provisions into EU legislation, the European Parliament must be involved. During today’s proceedings it was noticeable that Parliament occasionally comes in for praise, even though its Members are sometimes recalcitrant. They are ultimately very sensible people, however, and will support sound compromises."@en1
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