Activities of Petar VITANOV related to 2020/2048(INI)
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REPORT on the European Parliament recommendation to the Council and the Commission concerning the conclusion of an agreement, under negotiation, between the European Union and New Zealand on the exchange of personal data between the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and the New Zealand authorities competent for fighting serious crime and terrorism
Amendments (11)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
Citation 2
— having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the Charter), and in particular Articles 2, 6, 7 and 8 thereof,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
— having regard to Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas international agreements allowing Europol and third countries to cooperate and exchange personal data should fully respect the Charter of Fundamental Rights, notably Articles 2, 6, 7 and 8 of the Charterthereof, and be necessary for and proportionate to the fulfilment of Europol’s tasks;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas in the light of the 2019 Christchurch lone gunmanterrorist attack, future cooperation formalised under the agreement between the EU and New Zealand could be essential for prevention and prosecution should other serious crimes and terrorist attacks be planned or perpetrated within the EU or worldwide;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that, since Europol recognises that the terrorist threat level from returning foreign freedom fighters, radicalised European Muslims and their families is high, it is essential for information exchange by all relevant law enforcement agencies, within the EU and globally, to be prioritised in order to fight serious crime and terrorism; therefore urges the Member States to work faster to secure their bordersremains high, it is necessary to negotiate this international agreement on the modalities of transfer of personal data in order to fight serious crime and terrorism;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Requestires that the agreement contain all the necessary safeguards and controls with respect to the protection of personal data;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is of the opinion that, in line with the principle of purpose limitation, the future agreement should explicitly lay down a list of criminal offences in relation to which personal data can be exchanged; coinsidersts that this list should include the activities covered by such crime transferred personal data should be related to individual cases, and the persons, groups and organisations likely to be affected by such transfersat the principle of specificity is fully incorporated;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Insists that the agreement contain a clear and precise provision setting out the retention period for personal data that have been transferred and requiring the data to be erased at the end of that period; underlines the necessity for the Agreement to contain provisions on a periodic review of the retention periods and any further need to store data, as well as mechanisms to ensure the full deletion of transferred data from the recipients’ systems when it has been deleted from the senders’ systems; requests that robust procedural measures be set out in the agreement to ensure compliance; insists that, in those exceptional cases, where there are duly justified reasons to store data for an extended period, past the end of the data retention period, these reasons and the accompanying documentation be communicated to Europol and the EDPS;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Underlines the need for clear and detailed rules regarding the information to be provided to data subjects, including information about the applicable regime for EU data subjects to exercise their rights of access, rectification and erasure in New Zealand;