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Mr President, as a member of both the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home, I have to say, wearing both hats, that I am starting to get really concerned. From the perspective of civil liberties, I wonder where we are heading if we are going in for some sort of permanent and comprehensive monitoring of all citizens. In that way, the whole principle of presumption of innocence goes straight out the window!
As a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, I am worried about the burden on industry. I find it actually extraordinary that the Commissioner for the Internal Market should give an introduction that only covers the fight against terrorism, because we should actually also be discussing industry.
After all, commercial enterprises that simply go about their commercial activities, are increasingly burdened with the collection of data for police and judicial purposes. I would, by way of example, also draw your attention to the Directive on data storage and passenger name records. The effectiveness of all those measures is questionable. We appear to have some kind of blind faith in technology and that, as long as we collate as much data as possible on members of the public, we are bound to pick out a terrorist sooner or later. A recent report in the United States, however, makes an equally strong case for the fact that in reality, terrorists do not use standing orders to collect their criminal funds, but use all kinds of different channels for this. If we adopt measures of this kind, then I wonder in all honesty whether we may well force those money flows underground.
I hope in any case that we have made the proposal somewhat more workable for the enterprises that have to use it. I am, for example, pleased that the clauses about the EUR 1 000 and USD 1 000 thresholds are included. I would question whether the EUR 150 threshold for donations to charity organisations is not rather low after all. In this context, I would once again like to stress the importance of what we call purpose limitation, namely that those data are only used for the purpose for which they are collected.
Finally, I should like to add my voice to those who have already expressed their concern in no uncertain terms about the ‘Swift’ scandal that has recently come to light, and I think it is really high time for a much more fundamental debate on how we here in Europe want to fight terrorism effectively without affecting fundamental rights."@en1
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