09/05/2013nnEuroParl:nnIn its resolution of 4 July 2013 the European Parliament set the mandate of the LIBE Committee Inquiry:nnInstructs it...
09/05/2013nnEuroParl:nnIn its resolution of 4 July 2013 the European Parliament set the mandate of the LIBE Committee Inquiry:nnInstructs its Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs to conduct an in-depth inquiry into the matter in collaboration with national parliaments and the EU-US expert group set up by the Commission and to report back by the end of the year, by:nn- gathering all relevant information and evidence from both US and EU sources (fact-finding)nninvestigating the alleged surveillance activities of US authorities as well as any carried out by certain Member States (mapping of responsibilities)nassessing the impact of surveillance programmes as regards: the fundamental rights of EU citizens (in particular the right to respect for private life and communications, freedom of expression, the presumption of innocence and the right to an effective remedy); actual data protection both within the EU and for EU citizens outside the EU, focusing in particular on the effectiveness of EU law in respect of extraterritoriality mechanisms; the safety of the EU in the era of cloud computing; the added value and proportionality of such programmes with regard to the fight against terrorism; the external dimension of the area of freedom, security and justice (assessing the validity of adequacy decisions for EU transfers to third countries, such as those carried out under the Safe Harbour Agreement, international agreements and other legal instruments providing for legal assistance and cooperation) (damage and risk analysis)nexploring the most appropriate mechanisms for redress in the event of confirmed violations (administrative and judicial redress and compensation schemes)nputting forward recommendations aimed at preventing further violations, and ensuring credible, high-level protection of EU citizens' personal data via adequate means, in particular the adoption of a fully-fledged data protection package (policy recommendations and lawmaking)nissuing recommendations aimed at strengthening IT security in the EU's institutions, bodies and agencies by means of proper internal security rules for communication systems, in order to prevent and remedy unauthorised access and the disclosure or loss of information and personal data (remedying of security breaches)nSo far the actors who seem to be best able to provide the Committee with adequate information, besides the US and EU Authorities which will be invited later, are the media which unveiled these facts and the participants of the EU-US expert groups.nnTheir testimony and intervention before the LIBE Committee will enable the LIBE Committee to identify those aspects that will deserve closer investigation and thus need clarification in the following meetings.nnGiven the obvious similarities with the investigation into the Echelon system the then Chair of the temporary committee, Mr Coelho, and its rapporteur, Mr Schmid, have been invited to share their experiences.nnSchedulennIntroductory remarks by Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR, Chair of the LIBE CommitteennStatements by:nnJacques FOLLOROU, Le MondennJacob APPELBAUM, investigative journalist, software developer and computer security researcher with the Tor ProjectnnAlan RUSBRIDGER, Editor-in-Chief, The Guardian (via videoconference)nnPresentations by:nnGerhard SCHMID (former MEP and Rapporteur of the ECHELON report 2001)nnCarlos COELHO (MEP), former Chair of the Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception SystemnnDuncan CAMPBELL, investigative journalist and author of the STOA report "Interception Capabilities 2000"n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------nhttp://LeakSource.wordpress.comnnhttps://twitter.com/LeakSourceNews Less
