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Mr Erkki Liikanen Member of the European Commission, responsible for Enterprise and the Information Society A Framework for Growth Baltic Sea Region e-Business Forum Riga, 28 September 2001
DN: SPEECH/01/424 Date: 2001-10-01
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SPEECH/01/424
Mr Erkki Liikanen
Member of the European Commission, responsible for Enterprise and the Information Society
A Framework for Growth
Baltic Sea Region e-Business Forum
Riga, 28 September 2001
Ladies and gentlemen,
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2. Privacy and security: confidence building
People also need to feel secure. They need to trust that privacy is guaranteed on the Internet, and thus need a high level of security.
Europe has already taken several initiatives in this respect:
It has fully liberalised the trade of encryption technologies. These are key to securing confidentiality.
It has also adopted legislation to ensure the lawfulness and mutual recognition of electronic signatures between EU countries. These are key to securing the integrity and authentication of electronic data.
The Commission has also recently published a Communication on network and information security
Let me highlight some of the policy proposals:
We need
to raise awareness public information and education campaigns should be launched and best practices should be promoted;
a European warning and information system is needed to strengthen the activities of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) or similar entities and improve the co-ordination amongst them;
examine how to best organise at European level pro-active measures to develop forward-looking responses to existing and emerging security threats (e. g. an Information Security Observatory);
concerning the legal framework we will set up an inventory of national measures, which have been taken in accordance with relevant Community law.
Our objective is to table a comprehensive strategy on the security of electronic networks before the end of the year.
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