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"EU companies face unfair competition if their knowledge is stolen through industrial espionage and that is why these practices are indeed illegal in EU countries. But this ostensible attempt at bringing EU-wide standards of protection for company secrets has turned into a much broader-reaching piece of legislation which fails to protect insiders who stand to lose their careers, income and face harassment and persecution when they blow the whistle on corrupt and unethical behaviour in their organisations.
There is one single argument which to my mind suffices to reject this legislation. It does nothing to protect the likes of Antoine Deltour, who is being prosecuted for theft of PricewaterhouseCoopers corporate secrets in Luxembourg, because his revelations of tax impropriety shed light on practices that were not illegal, although deeply unscrupulous. I do commend the efforts of progressive colleagues who worked hard to improve the text; for instance, as regards the protection extended to journalists. Still, in the absence of proper safeguards to protect workers who risk everything to tell the truth, this vote should have been postponed until they are brought forward. Because it was not, the directive should have been quashed."@en1
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