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"Mr President, at all events, I should like to start by saying that, as Minister for Home Affairs, I know that we have managed to prevent potential attacks all too often through the exchange and interpretation of information. This is precisely what makes this debate and the conclusion of a sound Passenger Name Record (PNR) agreement so important, of course.
I know that the Commission faces a very difficult task as soon as the mandates have been adopted by the Council; it will have to open the actual negotiations and strike a balance between what everyone here wants – that on which there is a broad consensus – namely, the protection of personal data, on the one hand, and, on the other, the clear tenor here in this assembly that says: we need these PNR data, we have a frequent need for information, precisely in order to protect us against terrorist attacks, for example.
However, I am pleased that the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission are on the same wavelength and have the same balance at the back of their minds: a balance between data protection and security for which we all bear responsibility. I think we have now reached the point at which we can adopt the mandates. Afterwards, there comes the difficult job of the actual negotiations; we must ensure that we do not deviate too far from our mandate and that we continue to define that balance ourselves at all times.
I should like to address a number of specific questions, such as the comment on the sunset clause. It is indeed important to point out that this mandate is valid for seven years, that it will be assessed after four years and that, if the agreement should be concluded and also adopted here, an extension will only be possible following a debate here in Parliament; which I think is logical. This is not a real sunset clause, but it does very strongly resemble one in terms of the deadline and of the assessment after four years.
In addition, the Council’s conclusions rightly state that we set very great store by Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – indeed, comments have been made on the subject – and we must continue to guarantee these. Of course, it is important to all of us – and this is also in the mandate – that an independent body be established to which individuals can make a complaint if they notice that their data have been used wrongfully or for other purposes.
Finally – and this will be a very difficult point – the question of profiling, and of course we all want risk assessments. After all, risk assessments can be carried out on the basis of the data gathered to enable the right decisions to be made. On the other hand, of course, it is imperative to prevent the stigmatisation of certain ethnic groups, even though one group may have been advocating it here. I believe we want absolute freedom from ethnic stigmatisation. I believe that this, too, is one of the fundamental rights we all enjoy as European citizens, and particularly in my role as President-in-Office of the Council, I wish to make sure that we do not end up in such a situation."@en1
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