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"Mr President, I warmly thank the Commissioner for her presentation to the European Parliament and for today’s statement. It is self-evident, in my opinion, and we all agree, that the issue of the protection of European citizens’ personal data is extremely important and demands that we all treat it with the required gravity and attention. I wish to stress once more that we in the European Parliament do indeed attach great importance to this. The European Parliament therefore is and will continue to be extremely strict and demanding towards the other institutional bodies of the Union on this issue. As you know, Commissioner, from the outset the European Parliament wished to have a single legislative instrument, a regulation that would cover all aspects and all areas of personal data protection, with equal attention to the public and private sectors, and at the same time would include cases of processing of personal data by the judicial and police authorities. Unfortunately, our wish was not respected, with the result that today we have to deal with the proposals for a regulation and a directive. Parliament welcomed the Commission’s proposals, but we decided to deal with them as a single legislative package, both at a practical level and in terms of substance. I wish to emphasise that there cannot be a regulation without a directive, in our opinion. We shall insist on the rationale of the package in order to ensure coherence and legal certainty. Commissioner, I am glad that in your comments today you confirmed again that the Commission sees the regulation and directive as a single package and is treating them as such. Rest assured that we have no complaints about the Commission. On the contrary, our cooperation with the Commission is of a very high standard, and I have no hesitation in pointing this out from this rostrum, to express my gratitude to you. Unfortunately I cannot say the same about the Council. I wonder why the Council is not present at today’s debate. Why is the Council not here today to answer the oral question we have put? Allow me to say that this is not only a sign of disrespect to the institution of the European Parliament, but it also gives the message, as I feel compelled to conclude, that the Council does not attach due importance to this crucial issue for European citizens. Unfortunately the Council is delaying its work on the directive. I wonder – and with good reason, I think – why the Council is refusing, as its stance indicates, to cooperate. Allow me, Mr President, to conclude by stressing that the European Parliament will defend its positions by whatever means it considers necessary and appropriate. The aim is to complete the procedures and implement the regulation and directive as a package, to provide European citizens with a high level of protection of their personal data."@en1
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