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"Mr President, I think that whether people were in favour of this directive or not, we have to welcome the fact that in the European Union the courts were able to look at it independently and come up with a judgment which, of course, we should welcome and take on board. I think there is great credit due to Digital Rights Ireland which took this matter to the High Court and also the Constitutional Court in Austria which referred it onwards.
I do not think there is a need for anybody to be too upset over it because the first point in regard to what we always want to achieve is to ensure that people’s fundamental rights are preserved and above all within the European Union, because we are always talking about the need to have these rights worldwide.
What this judgment points out to us is that, in the fight against serious crime, and ultimately public security, the Court is of the opinion that by adopting the Data Retention Directive, the EU legislature has exceeded the limits imposed by compliance with the principle of proportionality. It also goes on to say: ‘the wide-ranging and particularly serious interference of the directive with the fundamental rights at issue is not sufficiently circumscribed to ensure that that interference is actually limited to what is strictly necessaryʼ.
So what we have to do is look at it and ensure that what we come up with does what it says on the tin, does not go beyond the limits and that people, particularly nowadays as more and more people are going online, can have the knowledge and security that their data is safe and that those charged with law, compliance and so forth are doing everything according to the courts. And I think that is what we have to do now."@en1
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