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From: Chris Keene [mailto:chris.keene@which.net] 
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Post S11 - Civil Liberties in the EU


Post S11 - Civil Liberties in the EU

From: "Viviane Lerner" <vlerner@interpac.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 22:55:57 -0800


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Statewatch News Online, 2 November 2001

See: <http://www.statewatch.org/news>

INTERCEPTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE EU 
UPDATE

- US calls for EU data protection to be ditched
- Council Legal Service says governments already have powers to combat
terrorism - European Parliament committee re-affirms its report on new
directive

The European Voice newspaper reports that President Bush has written
to Guy Verhofstadt, the Belgian Prime Minister who currently holds the
Presidency of the EU, asking to the proposed EU directive on privacy
and telecommunications being discussed in the European Parliament and
the Council to be changed to allow for interception for criminal
investigations. The US, says the letter, is against the provision in
existing EU law that data can only be retained for the purposes of
checking a customer's bill and for no other purpose.

A US official is quoted as saying that: "This is not an US-EU issue,
it is more a question of law enforcement versus a strict
interpretation of civil liberties".

The US is adding its voice to those of the EU law enforcement agencies
and the UK government, which have been demanding the end to the
protections given by the 1995 and 1997 EU Directives to citizens from
general surveillance of telecommunications (e-mails, faxes,
phone-calls and internet usage).

STATEWATCH ANALYSES OF POST-11 SEPTEMBER EU
MEASURES AFFECTING CIVIL LIBERTIES AND
ACCOUNTABILITY

Statewatch has completed two analyses of the new measures
being proposed in the EU following 11 September. One covers the new
legislative measures, the other new "operational" measures.

LEGISLATIVE MEASURES MORE CONCERNED WITH LAW
ENFORCEMENT THAN TERRORISM

Of the eleven measures being rushed through in the EU, six were
proposed before 11 September 11 and another four were firmly on the
EUs agenda. The only genuinely new anti-terrorist measure is the
commitment to examine immigration and asylum legislation with
reference to the terrorist threat, which suggests a general tightening
of controls on all asylum-seekers, immigrants and third- country
nationals entering the EU. The Statewatch report concludes:

As it stands, the anti-terrorism programme amounts to little more than
the fast-tracking of a raft of law enforcement legislation that was
already on the EUs agenda and goes well beyond the investigation and
prosecution of terrorism.

"ANTI-TERRORISM ROADMAP CREATES INFORMAL AND
UNACCOUNTABLE "OPERATIONAL" GROUPS

Many of the "operational" initiatives concern the creation of ad hoc,
informal, groups, targets and cooperation. There is little or no
mention of accountability to the European parliament or national
parliaments. No mention at all of data protection or to recourse to
courts for individuals who might be affected. Moreover, there is a
real danger that these "temporary" arrangements will become permanent
leaving a whole layer of EU inter-agencies informal groups,
information and intelligence exchanges and operational practices quite
unaccountable.

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TAKES COUNCIL TO COURT FOR
FAILURE TO CONSULT OVER NEW (NATO) CLASSIFICATION
CODE - THE "SOLANA TWO DECISION"

The European Parliament is taking the Council of the European Union to
the Court of Justice over its failure to consult the parliament over
the adoption of a new classification code for access to documents in
March 2001. The parliament argues that this was quite inappropriate as
the institutions (the parliament, Council and the European Commission)
were in the process of adopting a new Regulation on public access to
documents.

The Secretary-General of the Council, Mr Solana, drew up the new
classification code which was simply nodded through by the General
Affairs Council - the European Parliament was not consulted. The
Decision completely changed the Council's classification codes to meet
NATO demands.

Extensive background and documentation, including the full-text of the
EU/NATO security regulations

NEWS IN BRIEF

Germany: Report on new surveillance laws and statement by German
human-rights organisations.


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