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EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: MEP reactions

21 June 2013

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- Jan Albrecht
- Sarah Ludford
- Judith Sargentini
- Sylvie Guillaume

Justice Commissioner Reding has indicated to the European Parliament that she would not object if the parliament were to reinstate of Article 42 (which was removed from the draft Commission proposal by US lobbying) and would require authorisation in every instance where the communications of an EU citizen were requested by US agencies from service providers based in the USA: See: US spy scandal prompts redraft of EU data bill (euobserver, link). If the parliament were to adopt this position we would see a "battle royale" between it and the Council (EU governments) and other Directorate-Generals in the Commission who are susceptible to USA pressure.

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