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"Mr President, my group is extremely surprised at the turn this debate has taken. Only last week, the majority of our committee appeared to be opposed to an opt-in of unsolicited electronic mail, but since the PPE-DE has adopted a more flexible approach, the majority now seems to be in favour of this opt-in, in which case the Spanish Presidency is granted the honour of bringing this dossier to a successful end. This generous flexibility reminds me of something Groucho Marx once said: “Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others”.
I should not, however, be so condescending about the outcome of this U-turn. In all Member States, it is now prohibited to place cookies and send non-directed
mail, SMS or fax messages to people who have not asked for them. Unlike Mr Cappato, I do think this is a good idea, but it is true that this ban will also need to be enforced if we actually want to bring about a change.
I do not only want to express satisfaction, however. First of all, something I am really unhappy about and that has already been mentioned by the Liberals, is that these days negotiations appear to be taking place not between the Council and Parliament, but between the Council and two groups. Moreover, I am of the opinion that the compromise that these two groups have reached concerning data protection is not such a good one. I fully endorse what Baroness Ludford has said in this connection. Why are we as Parliament, in this first-pillar document, over which Parliament therefore has control, now willingly and explicitly encouraging the Council to conclude agreements about the systematic registration of people’s surfing behaviour and other electronic activities in the third pillar, behind closed doors and with minimum parliamentary and judicial control? We should simply study this aspect more carefully and not simply include it in this directive, which deals with completely different matters. Let us not get the first and third pillars mixed up."@en1
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