CELEX: 52000DP0593
Language: en
Date: 2000-07-05 00:00:00
Title: European Parliament decision setting up a temporary committee on the Echelon interception system

24.4.2001      EN                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                C 121/131
                                                                                                            Wednesday 5 July 2000
          10. Echelon
          (a) B5-0594/2000
          European Parliament decision on the Conference of Presidents’ decision not to propose the setting
                      up of a temporary committee of inquiry into the Echelon interception system
          The European Parliament,
              having regard to the request by some 172 Members  more than a quarter of Parliament’s Members
                for a temporary committee of inquiry into Echelon to be set up;
              having regard to the decision of the Conference of Presidents of 13 April 2000 not to propose that
               the European Parliament set up a temporary committee of inquiry pursuant to Rule 151 its Rules of
               Procedure;
          1.     Endorses the decision of the Conference of Presidents not to propose the setting up of a temporary
          committee of inquiry.
          (b) B5-0593/2000/rev.
          European Parliament decision setting up a temporary committee on the Echelon interception
                                                                system
          The European Parliament,
              having regard to Rule 150(2) of its Rules of Procedure,
              having regard to the decision of the Conference of Presidents of 15 June 2000 to propose the setting
               up of a temporary committee on the Echelon interception system,
          1.     Decides to set up a temporary committee with the following powers:
              to verify the existence of the communications interception system known as Echelon, whose operation
               is described in the STOA report published under the title ‘Development of surveillance technology and
               risks of abuse of economic information’;
              to assess the compatibility of such a system with Community law, in particular Article 286 of the
               EC Treaty and Directives 95/46/EC and 97/66/EC, and with Article 6(2) of the EU Treaty, in the
               light of the following questions:
              are the rights of European citizens protected against activities of secret services?
              is encryption an adequate and sufficient protection to guarantee citizens’ privacy or should additional
               measures be taken and if so what kind of measures?
              how can the EU institutions be made better aware of the risks posed by these activities and what
               measures can be taken?
              to ascertain whether European industry is put at risk by the global interception of communications;
              possibly, to make proposals for political and legislative initiatives;
          2.     Decides that the temporary committee will have 36 members, whose names are annexed to this
          decision.
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Wednesday 5 July 2000
                                                             ANNEX
                                             Setting up of temporary committee
            PPE-DE
            Full members: Banotti, von Boetticher, Cederschiöld, Coelho, Deprez, Dimitrakopoulos, Hernández Mol-
                          lar, Klamt, Hugues Martin, Oostlander, Palacio Vallelersundi, Pirker, Van Velzen, Zappalà.
            Substitutes:  Buttiglione, Cornillet, Gawronski, Giannakou-Koutsikou, Nassauer, Posselt, Johan Van
                          Hecke …
            PSE
            Full members: Berger, Robert Evans, Karamanou, Lalumière, Lund, Erika Mann, Medina Ortega, Paasi-
                          linna, Gerhard Schmid, Vattimo, Wiersma
            Substitutes:  Andersson, Caudron, Ford, Gebhardt, Marinho, Paciotti, Swiebel, Swoboda, Terrón i Cusí,
                          Thielemans, Titley
            ELDR
            Full members: Di Pietro, Flesch, Plooij-van Gorsel
            Substitutes:  Andreasen, Thors, Dybkjær
            Verts/ALE
            Full members: Ceyhun, MacCormick, McKenna
            Substitutes:  Boumediene-Thiery, Schröder, Lambert
            GUE/NGL
            Full members: Di Lello Finuoli, Krivine
            Substitutes:  Frahm, Papayannakis
            UEN
            Full member:  Berthu
            Substitute:   Nobilia
            TDI
            Full member:  Turco
            Substitute:   Frank Vanhecke
            EDD
            Full member:  Belder
            Substitute:   Okking