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"I voted in favour of the Agreement on the transfer of Passenger Name Records. With the new powers under the Treaty of Lisbon, we rejected the earlier version in May 2010, and called on the Commission to negotiate more stringent terms and conditions for data protection. The Agreement voted on today is a compromise, and is not perfect in terms of its content. However, it has improved considerably with regard to data protection and agreed cooperation with the US authorities.
The voice of opposition from Parliament’s left-wing has not offered any realistic alternative. If Parliament were to reject this version of the Agreement too, the United States could, for example, decide their own rules on passenger records for all EU countries, and airlines flying to the USA would have to hand over passenger records to the authorities anyway. This slightly more random practice would be in the interests of no one.
There is massive distrust with regard to the collection and recording of personal data, but it has to be recognised that it plays an important role in the fight against terrorism and rooting out organised crime. As Commissioner Malmström again reminded us, many terrorists and other criminals have been caught with the help of this data bank. This Agreement is the right way forward in the protection both of passenger records and people."@en1
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