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"en.20041202.8.4-090"2
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"Biometric data can help make our identity documents safer by making it more difficult to forge passports. Even though there is no human right not to be identified, people’s rights must nonetheless be protected through clear lines of demarcation regarding how information is used, for what purposes and by whom. The setting up of a central database at EU level would conflict with the principles both of proportionality and of purpose and would increase the risk of data’s being misused, as well as of its being linked and combined in contexts other than those for which it was collected.
It is the Council that is, and must be, the sole decision-making body in issues concerning standards and procedures to be followed by the Member States when they carry out checks on people at the EU’s external borders. Through this procedure, the Council is, however, obliged to hear the European Parliament’s points of view, which is why we have chosen to express our support for the view that aspects of legal certainty and the protection of private life are better dealt with in terms of the committee’s report than in terms of the Commission’s original proposal."@en1
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