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                Date: 2001-07-09
                 
                 
                EU-Datenschutzdirektive wird abgestimmt
                
                 
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      Übermorgen, Mittwoch, stimmt das Komitee für Bürgerrechte des  
EU-Parlaments über die Neufassung der Direktive zum  
Datenschutz ab. Die Auspizien sind nicht schlecht, es ist zu  
hoffen, dass der Überwachungs/wahn aus dem Westen Europas  
mit einem klaren "no" aus dem weitgehend BSE-freien Rest des  
Kontinents entgegnet wird. 
 
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PRIVACY/EP: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT POSITION AGAINST  
GENERAL SURVEILLANCE IS A GOOD NEWS IN THE VIEW OF  
THE VOTE ON THE PRIVACY DIRECTIVE THAT WILL TAKE  
PLACE NEXT WEDNESDAY IN BRUSSELS (Cappato report)  
 
Brussels, 6 July 2001  
 
Declaration by Marco Cappato, Radical MEP of the Bonino List,  
EP draftsman on the draft directive on privacy in electronic  
communications:  
 
"The adoption of a radical amendment that I had tabled on behalf of  
the Radicals/ Lista Bonino MEPs on the report on Human Rights in  
the European Union, the EP has assumed yesterday a clear  
political position on the issue of intrusions by States' repressive  
authorities in citizens' private life:  
 
"the interception and storage of data concerning traffic and location  
in electronic communications are entirely exceptional measures  
which must be based on a specific law which is comprehensible to  
the general public, be authorised by the judicial or competent  
authorities, be of limited duration, and be proportionate and  
necessary within a democratic society; points out that, under the  
European Convention on Human Rights and pursuant to rulings  
issued by the Court of Human Rights, any form of wide-scale  
general or exploratory electronic surveillance is prohibited". The  
political orientation of the EP is extremely important in the view of  
the legislative decisions that are to be taken on the revision of the  
directive on privacy in electronic communications, that opposes the  
European Commission to the Council of Ministers. As draftsman of  
the EP on this directive, I express the hope that the EP will support  
my report when it will be voted in the committee for citizens'  
freedoms and rights next Wednesday in Brussels: The EP has to  
oppose to any effort by EU Member States to get wider powers in  
intruding in private life of citizens, derogating to minimal human  
rights and fundamental freedoms that are at the base of democracy  
and Rule of Law".  
 
For further information:  
 
Marco Cappato's office: EP-Brussels, Tel 0032 2 2847496; Email:  
mcappato@europarl.eu.int  
 
Cappato draft report:  
http://www.europarl.eu.int/meetdocs/committees/libe/20010710/439
                   
506en.pdf [below]  
 
[See French version of this statement.]  
 
Mehr 
http://cryptome.org/eu-priv-cappato.htm
                   
 
 
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