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(Title) On June 28, 2010 signed in Brussels, after six months of negotiations to finalize the legal basis, the agreement between the EU and U.S. access to millions of U.S. data financial transactions interbank network SWIFT.
That agreement covers 15,000,000 bank transfers data a day between 8300 banks worldwide. On August 1, 2010 the Agreement enters into force if ratified before the European Parliament under the codecision procedure.
The data was ceded from SWIFT, a company based in Belgium, active in the movement of financial transactions by storing relevant information to the U.S. authorities, which created the TFTP (Terrorist Finance Tracking Program), an editor of such data to prevent terrorism. This program, which the EU has no access, controlled entirely by the CIA, process transactions and “alert” when something it considers suspicious.
However, in 2007, SWIFT decided to modify the operating system on the exchange of electronic messages and information leading to direct effects on the U.S. access to these data. To that end, on 27 July 2009, the Council of the EU began negotiations on an agreement that would enable access to SWIFT’s data is stored in Europe, the U.S. authorities, through the TFTP.
Serious doubts with the massive task in the U.S. personal data have been expressed by the European Parliament (resolution of 17 September 2009), but also from EU countries (Germany, Austria etc). In that regard, despite some improvements in the agreement, the main objections of the European Data Protection Supervisor remain, both on the huge volume of data transmitted to U.S. authorities and the (five) during preservation and processing of such data, the other on the fact that responsible for monitoring the application of this agreement is Europol, the European Police Office and not a legal mechanism.
On this basis,
Does the responsible Minister:
; On what basis, what positions and what arguments the Greek government voted in favor of the conclusion of that agreement? will bring the agreement to the Greek Parliament and when;
· Given that access to data managed by SWIFT makes possible to detect not only transfers linked to illegal activities but also information on the economic activities of individuals and countries involved, with what legal safeguards and guarantees protect sensitive personal data in cases of abuse;
· What means of redress in case of error;
· Given that the protection of privacy, legal protection and proportionality are constitutional issues that it considers the mass transmission of data is contrary to EU treaties and other ratios;
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