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". Mr President, Commissioner, without ignoring the fact that data protection is a fundamental right enshrined in Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and in Article 16 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the current Directive was born of the desire to harmonise national provisions on data retention, in order to ensure the availability of those data for the purpose of the investigation, detection and prosecution of serious crime, such as terrorism or organised crime. This harmonisation is necessary because the inefficiency arising from the fragmentation created by national provisions has been demonstrated in studies and through practical experience. We therefore need to ensure the continued retention, at European level, of data that are generated or processed. A recent example of how these data can be used in a judicial context as a tool to fight crime is the arrest in Spain on 4 October 2012 of a young man planning to imitate the Columbine massacre by planting bombs at universities in the Balearic Islands. Following a police investigation using data obtained from electronic communications, it was ascertained that the young man had bought various explosive substances and items of equipment needed to make homemade bombs. As a result, it was possible to prevent a real tragedy. Nevertheless, I call on the Commission to present an urgent proposal for the revision of the legal framework for data retention, because the importance and sensitivity of this matter means that we cannot continue with a Directive that has technical shortcomings and intrudes, sometimes disproportionately, on the right to privacy."@en1
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