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"en.20100211.12.4-990"2
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"I wholeheartedly welcome the defeat today of the Council and Commission proposed agreement with the USA on data transfer. The current text of the EU-USA agreement does not protect the rights of EU citizens and enterprises and effectively provides for the transfer en masse of all personal and commercial information held on the SWIFT system to the USA contrary to EU law. The European Parliament has, since 2006, regularly made our concerns plain to both the Council and Commission who negotiated this disgraceful agreement. However they chose to dismiss our concerns believing they could conclude the agreement before the new European Parliament powers under the Lisbon Treaty came into force. Indeed the Council rushed to a signature of the agreement one day before the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. The Lisbon Treaty gives the EP a binding veto power on such international agreements. Until now no national or EU parliamentary scrutiny has been provided for in this sensitive process. I welcome the decision too by the Irish Parliamentary Joint Committee on European Affairs to look more closely at this proposal. This signals a much more effective monitoring of European legislative proposals which will be to the benefit of citizens."@en1
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