Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-05-Speech-3-014"
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"The revision of telecommunications legislation also contains some provisions updating European regulations, particularly on the protection of personal data and privacy.
Parliament will soon issue an opinion, at first reading, on this important text. The text includes, amongst others, general provisions on the confidentiality of communications, and on the general principle of deleting traffic and location data relating to these communications.
The general principle is, of course, qualified by the option given to the authorities responsible for public safety and for combating crime to request access to the information on a case-by-case basis. As you know, the debate is still open on the length of time such information can be stored.
To sum up, I would like to return briefly to the issue of intelligence gathering. In the military capabilities commitment declaration, annexed to the Nice European Council conclusions, the Member States acknowledged that serious effort would be needed in the area of intelligence so that, in future, the European Union has more strategic intelligence at its disposal.
The European Parliament motion for a resolution highlights the need for democratic monitoring of intelligence operations that might be established within the European Union. This is a general principle, which we can only support. More specifically, the presidency currently believes that, should this type of intelligence capability be established within the EU, we would have to investigate the procedures that would need to be implemented in order to ensure democratic monitoring of these activities. These procedures would naturally have to take into account the particular nature of the intelligence field which, in order to function effectively, requires that information gathered remains confidential.
Mr President, to sum up and in conclusion, I would like to congratulate Mr Watson once again for his excellent work and I hope that you have an interesting debate. I shall be staying in the House to listen to what you have to say."@en1
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