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EU: Parliament votes to amend anti-terror laws/Resolution on Council Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA on combating terrorism

01 September 2008

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Resolution on the Council Framework Decision amending Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA on combating terrorism (pdf)
Resolution on the draft Council Framework Decision on the protection of personal data processed in the framework of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters (pdf)
See:EU makes headway on anti-terror law (euractiv, link).

By a massive majority, with 600 MEPs in favour and only 21 against plus 39 abstentions the parliament voted to replace "public provocation" by "public incitement in the proposal to amend the definition of "terrorism" as this had a clear legal meaning. They also voted overwhelmingly, 556 in favour to 90 against and 19 abstentions, to reiterate - for the third time - substantial amendments to the proposed Framework Decision on the transfer of personal data in police and judicial matters.

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments:

"The European Parliament are to be congratulated on the clear stand they have taken on the definition of terrorism and data protection.

Unfortunately they are only being "consulted" and the Council [EU governments] can simply ignore their views and those of national parliaments, data protection authorities and civil society. These two measures, like hundreds of others adopted since 1993, will form part of EU law yet they will lack true democratic input and hence any legitimacy."

Background:

Observatory on data protection in the EU
“White man’s burden”: criminalising free speech

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