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tools created for the good of mankind and which are largely used for good are being abused and we must respond by closing the loopholes.
we have to work together and of course we need europol cepol eurojust and enisa to be granted sufficient resources and tools in order to allow them to build the necessary capabilities to cope with the increasing workload and to continue their valuable work in the area of cybercrime.
finally together i know that we can find the solutions that keep people and companies secure online and respect citizens' privacy and go after the criminals who think that they can mask their identities.
cybercrime and criminals have become more organised more brazen and more serious.
with the increasing number nature and gravity of cybercrime with the increasing prevalence of the dark net we need more and better coordination between member states at international level as well as with the private sector to protect eu citizens companies and our critical infrastructure.
from here let me call on the member states which have not yet done so to ratify the council of europe convention on cybercrime as we call it the budapest convention.
we have seen computer systems that we thought impregnable hacked.
there are still too many credit cards and identities stolen and far too many children remain exploited.
in this regard they encourage the exchange of best practices investment in cybersecurity training awareness raising and cyber hygiene.
this is part of the overall aim of making europe a global leader in cybersecurity by two thousand and twenty five in order to ensure the trust confidence and protection of our citizens and businesses online.
these are serious threats and they require our full and immediate attention.
this was further developed by the october two thousand and seventeen european council which placed combating terrorism and online crime among the prerequisites for successfully building a digital europe together with a common approach to cybersecurity.
since then we have been constantly expanding the efforts we make to improve our resilience and our preparedness to counter these threats so that citizens and businesses can fully enjoy the benefits of cyberspace.
finally let me conclude by briefly mentioning that in may this year we expect member states to finalise the transposition of the two thousand and sixteen nis directive.
the ambitious cybersecurity package presented by the commission on thirteen september two thousand and seventeen was followed by a set of council conclusions and an action plan for their implementation. they emphasise the need to enhance the eu's capacity to prevent deter and respond to cyberattacks.
i would also like to recall that in september last year the very first digital summit took place in tallinn allowing our political leaders to give strategic directions for future work in the digital domain.
we are confident that the constructive dialogue will allow a swift closing of the negotiations and the timely adoption of the act.
they confirmed the strong commitment of the european union to fight cybercrime and the criminal use of the internet.
i could also mention cyber dialogues between the european union and key international partners as well as cyber diplomacy on which the council adopted conclusions in june two thousand and seventeen towards a joint eu diplomatic response to malicious cyber activities.
as part of this package the council has also started examining the proposal for a cybersecurity act that addresses the need for a strong and permanent mandate for enisa referred to as the eu cybersecurity agency and for enhancing the eu cybersecurity certification to promote the availability of secure products and services.
thus it is not surprising that discussion has concentrated on the need to achieve the highest level of resilience for digital infrastructure industries and services to create a competitive advantage and to attract investment.
hackers and other criminals seeking to attack us do not make a distinction between the eu and non member states.
but sadly the reality is that cybercrime has grown five times within the last four years and this is expected to grow even further in the coming years.
currently intelligence agencies like the nsa have a habit of hoarding security vulnerabilities and exploits in order to gather intelligence. this means that they don't disclose these vulnerabilities in a timely manner to the manufacturers of the affected products who thus remain unaware and can't immediately patch their products and services.
unfortunately this modus operandi relies on the hope that these vulnerabilities are not discovered in parallel by anyone else which is not very probable especially if enough time goes by.
this makes it more crucial for the european union to continue to equip itself with strong cybersecurity legislation whilst investing in further research on how to protect citizens online.
i believe that this is our opportunity to train young ict experts who can combat this phenomenon and the crimes we are facing now and also the crimes of the future.
cybersecurity is not about infrastructure alone.
the matter is more urgent since a number of public services across the eu are now available online.
all it takes sometimes is just a click of a button or a password that is too easy to crack.
i think together that has raised the awareness of the need to tackle these different cyber threats.
i think we are responding.
i am very grateful for the support that i hear and indeed the encouragement to keep working on these issues.
from the commission side we are committed to develop a cybersecurity agency with real competences and capacities and to develop a certification system that really delivers increased cybersecurity.
we will work with the member states to that end.
we will work to promote a really effective publicprivate partnership.
we will as encouraged by you all work to build the resilience of our infrastructures our platforms services and devices but also to address the behavioural challenge to build our behavioural and societal resilience too against some of these threats because as has been underlined by many of the speakers in order to benefit to the full from the digital single market and all the social advantages we get from an ever more interconnected society
we need to deal with the threats and the challenges that seek to undermine it.
we need more joint exercises and we also need to improve accountability which requires further development of a common understanding of the international law applicable to cyberspace.
this is the preventive function of cybersecurity policies fighting against cybercrime possibilities.
much more secure and protected devices networks platforms are the purpose of eu debate on cybersecurity package.
key for the prevention is cybersecurity hygiene;
new attitude to pay attention to the rules ensuring security in cyberspace. so what do we need for an effective fight against cybercrime?
law enforcement;
real and virtual capacity and tools to act effectively against the dark net internationally.
let me remind you all maybe you know already but still a reminder may be needed today that our eu special representative for human rights stavros lambrinidis visited bahrain for the second time last year and had a comprehensive visit that allowed frank discussions on all issues and in the follow up of that visit we established an eubahrain human rights working group that met for the first time
we know very well that speaking up on this is important from the eu side as such.
two thousand and eleven it is and i would like to stress this in regional and global including european interests to avoid new tensions arising in a region of the world that cannot afford further tensions. on the contrary the region needs reconciliation and de escalation of political confrontation and this is exactly the work that we doing on a daily basis both speaking
so it would be beneficial for bahrain itself for its stability and its internal healthy societal development to go in that direction.
so that kind of working relation on these issues including all difficult issues we have on the table is ongoing.
it is first and foremost as i said in bahrain's national interest to facilitate and support national reconciliation through a peaceful inclusive reform process as was mentioned and as there were commitments during.
the eu both in brussels and through our delegation will keep working to protect and promote human rights and fundamental freedoms. this is consistent with bahrain's international commitment but also with the recommendation set out by the bahrain independent commission of inquiry and the recommendations made during bahrain's universal periodic review process.
this is crucial not only on the issue of human rights in itself but it is also crucial as was mentioned in one of the last interventions to overcome the deep polarisation of the country itself.
if i have to assess whether that has brought results today i have to say obviously that we are facing extremely difficult situations but the suggestion of establishing a working group on these issues with them and having our human rights representative working and visiting the country constantly is there as well as when it comes to statements and declarations the last one i think we released just yesterday to highlight our
let me stress that this includes the ongoing judicial proceedings on the suspension of al wefaq the sentence against the secretarygeneral ali salman as well as the re arrest of nabeel rajab and measures preventing activists from travelling abroad.
on a number of occasions such as during the visit of stavros lambrinidis we have called for the release of those arrested in the context of peaceful political activities and we are constantly doing that.
so we expect these decisions to be reconsidered in a fair and transparent manner in full respect of bahrain's international obligations and its own internal constitution.
up and engaging quietly not only to promote human rights in the country but also to avoid further tension in the region.
they have to listen and we will never ever forget a human rights defender who is at risk anywhere in the world.
this is just one case but should be put together with the travel bans against those human rights defenders preventing them going to the un human rights council in geneva on the restoration of the death sentence and on the arrest of opposition politicians all cited in our resolution. the truth is that four years later human rights
we see that freedom of expression is violated contrary to the country's own constitution and more than three hundred people have been stripped of citizenship contrary to the universal declaration on human rights.
human rights in this country must change.
one should say that actually our policy regarding bahrain has been set in the last year since the uprising into two thousand and eleven in london and for reasons that have nothing to do with human rights nor with europe's strategic interests.
in the meantime i am glad will be voting on this resolution and that we will come together to say clearly that nabeel must be released immediately and unconditionally with all other human rights defenders and political prisoners in bahrain.
democracy and human rights will only make bahrain stronger with a brighter future for all bahrainis. it is time for the bahraini government to hold up its own constitution and release nabeel now.
the bahraini government must understand that allowing free open and diverse democratic debate and a vibrant civil society will not make it weaker.
madam president i wish to thank the high representative for participating in the human rights debate. unfortunately we today again have to raise the human rights violations in bahrain that are ongoing. it is our fourth resolution in the last couple of years and even though concrete proposals have been made to stop the
tensions and the violence and the repression in the country very little result has been booked.
i think it is now time to really take new initiatives as the eu.
we've seen the us vicepresident come out strongly and we've seen major newspapers write op eds so the whole idea that the eu is oversensitive and is alone in this is not true.
i think it is important and on this i would be very interested to hear your thoughts to see what we can do at this point before it further escalates.
quite frankly the ongoing repression and stripping of citizenship with high prison sentences for simply having an expression online are unacceptable.
i would like to ask the commission whether or not its research has shown the system to create higher levels of security and ease of travel and whether it has proven to be effective and cost efficient.
it is obviously very important to make travel documents more secure and we have been working on that for a decade both in the eu and of course in the us and other countries.
according to the visa code the commission should present a report in june this year including an evaluation of the collection of data and documents used for creating biometric passports.
i think it is a fair question to ask where we are at.
the problem with this is that it has been done on the basis of voluntary information supplied by member states so i think that we need a study which is more comprehensive on failure rates.
in negotiating the visa code in two thousand and nine in which i was involved parliament successfully required that we should not fingerprint children under twelve due to the unreliability of such fingerprints.
in order to perform its scientific analysis the research centre needed reliable data from children below the age of twelve taken twice from the same person with an interval of at least two years.
access to the data was granted by the portuguese authorities last november after the conclusion of the appropriate portuguese procedure for ensuring that all the data protection aspects were duly considered. for that reason the study is not yet finished and the final result therefore not available. there will be an intermediate report presented by the research centre in may this year.
the final report will also include an evaluation of whether the biometric matching algorithms available on the market now or in the near future can be used effectively with children's fingerprints.
while compliance testing is a standard procedure it is currently carried out by national accredited laboratories and the joint research centre has performed and already reported on additional testing of the chips on electronic passports provided on a voluntary basis because it is the only way we can proceed by some member states to the commission.
if non conformity is found the commission will of course take the appropriate measures.
as to the last question on obtaining authentic documents this is related to identity theft.
two thousand and thirteen based on the final results of the study the commission will consider proposing amendments to the regulation. regarding the technical issues related to the biometric enrolment process these issues have been clarified in a decision from august last year amending the technical specifications for passports.
we are also conducting a report on identity theft;
the final results will provide comprehensive information on the evolution of fingerprints of children under twelve and the technical feasibility of using them for identification and verification purposes.
such data could be provided only by member states and portugal volunteered to provide data from its national passport database.
it will present preliminary conclusions regarding the evolution of children's fingerprints based on limited algorithms developed by academia.
biometrics has a role to play and therefore we should do everything we can to make it safer and better for everybody.
mr president after the adoption of standards for security features and biometrics in passports in two thousand and four ireland's first biometric passports or e passports were issued in.
personal identification contained in the biometric chip of each e passport establishes a more reliable link between the passport and its holder.
in two thousand and ten an investigation by the irish police proved that eight irish passports had been forged and misused by israeli government operatives in the assassination of palestinian mahmoud al mabhouh.
it seems likely that the passports in question were forgeries of passports issued before two thousand and six as the biometric data in our passports is very difficult to forge.
it concerns me to hear of other weaknesses in the level of passport security across the eu which could lead to similar situations arising again and the commission should really take the concerns of parliament seriously.
i wonder if the commission is going to include that element and that information in its evaluation.
why this whole system which is extremely costly and which clearly has a lot of shortcomings had to be introduced on such a thin justification.
we are talking about document security we are talking about fundamental rights we are talking about the efficiency of different kinds of travel documents and biometrics.
in a way it is a bit unfortunate that we are having this debate today because in june i would be able to give you the answers to all the questions you have put to me.
i am looking forward to having a renewed discussion when we have all this documentation.
we have no confirmation of the figures that have been circulating here.
when the regulation on biometric passports was adopted there was no evaluation clause in it so the commission has not been asked to do a general evaluation of the usefulness and effectiveness of biometrics.
so thank you very much for the debate. i think we will get back to it very soon when hopefully i can bring some more concrete results to the debate here.
would it not be right for us to maintain the reviews that we are carrying out under the scorecard mechanism and in particular to keep an eye on who would be most affected by any actions we would wish to take?
i have taken note of and welcome your strong interest in this issue.
i think we need to be working with the pakistanis to enable change which is not to say we should step back from the rules we have in place on human rights.
but we also have to realise that to argue for change is really literally putting your life on the line and i do wonder sometimes how brave many of us would be in those situations. part of what we are trying to do in pakistan is to change the situation on the ground
i want once again to reassure members that these issues are raised by the delegation with the highest authorities when we travel there. i think there are many people in pakistan who recognise that there is a need for change not just for minorities but for all pakistanis whatever their belief. people should not be facing arbitrary accusation; they should not be in a situation where evidence is presented against them which they cannot hear and which they cannot test.
to make change possible so that is why we need to support universal education which does not undermine islam but undermines the power of those who would use it for their own purposes.
death and prison sentences are administered by the lower first instance courts and whilst pakistan has to its credit never actually carried out an execution for blasphemy significant numbers of those accused and their families are forced to endure threats of if not actual mob violence and possibly even public lynchings.
whilst pakistan has taken steps in recent years to ensure that renewed respect for fundamental human rights remains a top priority on its political agenda we must continue to urge the authorities to go further to adhere to the constitution of pakistan and modern international standards by fully guaranteeing the human rights of all people and citizens in pakistan particularly the most vulnerable citizens minority groups women and children.
once again his holiness the pope took the floor just the day before yesterday and made it clear that when europe does not hold firmly to its values we are set adrift and that i see being demonstrated here today.
so many of our colleagues may be unaware but actually this house and the european union have already been instrumental in securing the release of a european citizen from death row in pakistan.
it is something that we achieved some years ago.
to the commission i can simply repeat we have of course a variety of calls in terms of the trade relationship that we have with pakistan.
let us please apply that as vigorously as we possibly can.
i know the pakistani nation is in a state of deep shock and outrage.
it is important to understand that these laws have existed in pakistan since colonial times and that the majority of cases registered under this law have been against muslims.
i have been assured by the pakistani authorities that they are taking adequate steps to prevent possible misuse and abuse of the laws.
it is also important to remember that no one has so far been punished under these laws.
cases instituted under the law have normally failed to withstand judicial scrutiny at the various levels.
but i would like to ask you as an expert to take up the point made by mr bashir earlier where he tried to make this out to be something about protecting christians versus muslims.
some of it i think you can see is politically manipulated and some of it is much more to settle local scores but i do think that when we are talking about the issue we have to be very careful that we are not presenting this in a way which can be interpreted as an anti islam agenda because that plays into the hands of those who actually do not want to see any reform.
mr president as is the case with other minority communities in the country such as christians the baloch people have been targeted through the blasphemy laws in pakistan.
this is something for the european external action service to pay attention to when dealing with pakistan.
does my colleague mr castaldo accept that a lot of the crimes that are being committed especially in the third world and in pakistan are due to poverty?
i think it is wrong to penalise a nation on that basis and then cause it to become poorer.
mr president not one year has passed since this house adopted a resolution on this topic and we are once again faced with various horrific incidents resulting from these laws.
this is a tragedy. how can pakistanis have faith in the rule of law when claims that are near impossible to prove can mean life imprisonment or the death penalty?
how can religious minorities feel safe in their homes having seen a couple beaten and burnt alive?
even lawyers who are courageous enough to defend those charged are at risk of mob violence and murder.
this is the situation we are dealing with repeatedly and we have seen no improvement.
blasphemy laws that are used to make freedom of expression freedom of religion for all faiths increasingly difficult.
several wild accusations have already led to death sentences.
we need to call strongly on the authorities of pakistan to repeal these laws to have a thorough review and to repeal these laws.
to achieve that a strong signal from the european union is also necessary.
you sir and others have mentioned a lot of christian people that have been persecuted throughout the world.
we are here to defend all people of all faiths not just christians.
as it is the twentieth anniversary of the takeover handover of hong kong to the chinese i would like to focus my speech on chinese actions there.
similarly the british government must do more to uphold our end of the bargain and guarantee the freedoms hong kong enjoys under the existing terms of the agreement.
one country two systems was supposed to guarantee the hong kong way of life for fifty years but already chinese authorities are exerting undue influence on the political legal and social life of hong kong. china must respect the terms of the sino british joint declaration as a legally binding document lodged with the united nations.
we strongly condemn the long term persecution of this most famous chinese dissident who got inspiration from vclav havel.