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\par \sect }\sectd \margbsxn1134\linex0\headery1134\footery1134\sectdefaultcl \pard\plain \qj\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\v\lang2057 }{\lang2057 By letter of 27 January
1999 the Presidency of the Council of the European Union consulted Parliament, pursuant to Article K.6(2) of the EU Treaty, on the draft Council Resolution on the lawful interception of telecommunications in relation to new technologies (10951/2/98 - C4-
0052/99 - 99/0906(CNS)).
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\par At the sitting of 12 April 1999 }{\v\lang2057 DT(d month yyyy)@DAT@}{\lang2057 the President of Parliament announced that he had referred this proposal to the }{\v\lang2057 KEY(MAIN/COMISMIN)@COMM@COMNAME}{\lang2057
Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs as the committee responsible and to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy for their opinions.
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\par At its meeting of 26 January 1999, the }{\v\lang2057 \{LIBE\}}{\lang2057 Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs appointed Mr Gerhard Schmid rapporteur.
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\par The }{\v\lang2057 \{LIBE\}}{\lang2057 committee considered the draft resolution and the draft report at its meetings of 16 March and 20 April 1999.
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\par At the latter meeting it unanimously adopted the draft legislative resolution.
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\par The following took part in the vote: d'Ancona, chairman; Reding, vice-chairman; Schmid, rapporteur; Cederschi\'f6
ld, Ceyhun, Chanterie (for Deprez), Colombo Svevo, De Esteban Martin, Goerens, Lindeperg, Palacio (for Nassauer), Pirker, Schulz, Stewart-Clark, Terr\'f3n i Cusi and Wiebenga.
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\par The opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights is attached. The opinion of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy could not be considered as it was not available on the day the vote was taken.
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\par The report was tabled on 23 April 1999.
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\par Draft Council Resolution on the lawful interception of telecommunications in relation to new technologies (10951/2/98 - C4-0052/99 - 99/0906(CNS))
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\par The draft was approved with the following amendments:
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\par Legislative resolution embodying Parliament's opinion on the draft Council Resolution on the lawful interception of telecommunications in relation to new technologies
\par (10951/2/98 - C4-0052/99 - 99/0906(CNS))
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\par (Consultation procedure)}{\lang2057
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\par }{\ul\lang2057 The European Parliament}{\lang2057 ,
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\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057 1.\tab Approves the Council proposal, subject to the amendments adopted by Parliament;
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\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057 2.\tab Asks to be consulted again, should the Council intend to make substantial modifications to the proposal;
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\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057 3.\tab Instructs its President to forward this opinion to the Council and Commission.
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\par In its resolution of 17 January 1995 on the lawful interception of telecommunications(}{\cs15\lang2057\super \chftn }{\lang2057 ){\footnote \pard\plain \qj\fi-720\li720\nowidctlpar\tx-1440\adjustright {\lang2057 (}{\cs15\lang2057\super \chftn }{\lang2057
)\tab OJ C 329, 4.11.1996, p. 1.}} the Council lists the 'requirements' to be met in the Memb
er States for the lawful interception of telecommunications traffic. As far as possible, these requirements should ensure a common technical standard for interception. Comparable standards are needed, on the one hand because of the importance of monitor
ing telecommunications in the fight against international organised crime and, on the other, to facilitate interception on the basis of letters rogatory.
\par
\par This resolution is not binding in nature and gives law enforcement authorities in the Member States no
rights of interception outside their own jurisdiction. Nor does the resolution in any way alter the various regulatory conditions for the lawful interception of telecommunications. It does not, therefore, affect the tension between fundamental rights a
nd internal security.
\par
\par In the draft resolution on which the Council has consulted Parliament the Council basically seeks to make it clear that these requirements apply to both existing and new communications technologies, e.g. satellite and Internet communi
cations. It also lists a number of new requirements tailored to them. It is therefore to some extent an update of the 1995 resolution.
\par
\par Parliament has nothing against this. What does, however, emerge from a comparison of the initial document, ENFOPOL 10
951/98 of 3 September 1998, and the present shortened and twice amended version on which Parliament has now been consulted, is rather the question of whether needs have really been taken into account. Internet service providers frequently give their cust
o
mers access via 'dynamic' IP addresses. If records are not kept, addresses cannot subsequently be ascribed to individuals. However, in serious crime cases (e.g. where a blackmailer has a virtual account) the law enforcement authorities must be able to a
scribe network activities to their originators. Prominent providers are, on cost grounds, not keeping such records. The industry has therefore been working hard to restrict the requirements.
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\par The draft resolution should also contain a provision requiring a check on the transposition of the two resolutions into national law so that any further action required to improve lawful interception might be taken on the basis of reliable data.
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\par for the }{\v\lang2057 \{LIBE\}}{\lang2057 Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs}{\v\lang2057 }{\lang2057
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\par }{\v\lang2057 MNU[REG][DIR][DEC]@INTRDD@}{\lang2057 on the draft Council resolution on the lawful interception of telecommunications in relation to new technologies (10951/2/98 - C4-0052/99 - 99/0906(CNS)) (report by Mr Schmid)}{\v\lang2057
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\par }{\v\lang2057 \{JURI\}}{\lang2057 Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights}{\v\lang2057 }{\lang2057
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\par Draftsman: }{\v\lang2057 }{\lang2057 Luigi A. Florio}{\v\lang2057 }{\lang2057
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\par }{\b\ul\lang2057 PROCEDURE}{\lang2057
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\par At its meeting of 24 February 1999 the }{\v\lang2057 \{JURI\}}{\lang2057 Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights appointed Mr Florio draftsman.
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\par It considered the draft opinion at its meetings of 16 and 25 March 1999.
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\par At the last meeting it adopted the following conclusions by 7 votes to 4.
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\par The following were present for the vote: De Clercq, chairman; Malangr\'e9, vice-chairman; Ahern, A\'f1overos Tr\'edas de Bes (for C. Casini), Cot, Gebhardt, Habsburg-Lothringen (for Lehne), Oddy, Sierra Gonz\'e1lez, Thors and Ullmann.
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\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\b\lang2057 1.\tab }{\b\ul\lang2057 INTRODUCTION/GENERAL COMMENTS}{\lang2057
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\par Telecommunications technology
has swept into our everyday life. The most important and rapid developments have been in mobile telephones and Internet connection. If it were possible to monitor communications conducted directly or indirectly by an individual it would be easy to know w
h
ere he was going and when, what Internet sites he was consulting, what electronic messages he was sending, what electronic payments he was making ... In short, it would be possible to know everything about his private life. A prospect recalling George Orw
ell's }{\i\lang2057 1984(}{\cs15\i\lang2057\super \chftn }{\i\lang2057 ){\footnote \pard\plain \qj\fi-720\li720\nowidctlpar\tx-1440\adjustright {\lang2057 (}{\cs15\lang2057\super \chftn }{\lang2057 )\tab
The French Human Rights League is devoting its Congress of 26-28 March 1999 to 'science, technology and human rights'. In its D
ecember 1998 review Alain Weber on p. 34 writes of the Internet surfer who is surreptitiously sent those electronic delicacies, the 'cookies' which spy on him. Sophisticated software is being developed to follow him where ever he roams on the Net; it can
retrieve what he said, what he read, and what he thought about it... On ENFOPOL see also a highly critical assessment in 'Monde Diplomatique', March 1999, p. 21 and Internet World, April 1999, p. 18-20.}}}{\lang2057 .
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\par \sect }\sectd \margbsxn1134\sbknone\linex0\headery1134\footery1134\sectdefaultcl \pard\plain \qj\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057 That is a long way off, but simply mentioning it should remind us that }{\ul\lang2057
the protection of privacy is one of the fundamental norms of a democratic society, and that the interception of telecommunication must remain the exception.}{\lang2057
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\par This proposal on the lawful interception of telecommunications in relation to new technologies (ENFOPOL) amends the Council resolution of 17 January 1995(}{\cs15\lang2057\super \chftn }{\lang2057 ){\footnote \pard\plain \qj\fi-720\li720\nowidctlpar
\tx-1440\adjustright {\lang2057 (}{\cs15\lang2057\super \chftn }{\lang2057 )\tab OJ C 329, 4.11.1996, pp. 1-6.}} to take account of technical development:
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\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057 (a)\tab The }{\ul\lang2057 legal basis}{\lang2057 of the proposal is Article Member States.1(9) i
n conjunction with Article Member States.3(2), second indent, of the TEU. On police cooperation the Commission does not have the right of initiative and this proposal was originally put forward by the UK and espoused by the Austrian Presidency of the Coun
cil.
\par }\pard \qj\fi720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057
\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057 (b)\tab The 1995 resolution, like the resolution now being proposed, }{\ul\lang2057 is not legally binding}{\lang2057 on the Member States. They are more in the nature of recommendations.
\par }\pard \qj\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057
\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057 (c)\tab There are therefore }{\ul\lang2057 no European rules}{\lang2057 on telephone-tapping or in more general terms on
the lawful interception of telecommunications. National legislation applies. At national level procedures in principle provide for such telephone-tapping (or comparable procedures for non-telephonic communications) to be conducted by the police on the ba
sis of authorisation by the appropriate Minister or of letters rogatory issued by a magistrate. These letters rogatory set bounds to police action (for example in time, type of information which may be collected, etc.).
\par }\pard \qj\fi720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057
\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\b\lang2057 2.\tab }{\b\ul\lang2057 PROTECTION OF PRIVACY}{\lang2057
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\par All Member
States of the European Union are parties to the European Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and Article Member States.2 of the TEU states that police cooperation has to be dealt with in compliance with that Convention
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\par Article 8 of the Convention lays down provisions concerning the protection of private life. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has produced a considerable amount of case law restricting phone-tapping as an extension of the protection of pri
vacy. On numerous occasions it has pointed out that telephone calls from the home(}{\cs15\lang2057\super \chftn }{\lang2057 ){\footnote \pard\plain \qj\fi-720\li720\nowidctlpar\tx-1440\adjustright {\lang2057 (}{\cs15\lang2057\super \chftn }{\lang2057 )
\tab e.g. ECHR Judgment of 30 July 1998, Valenzuela Contreras v. Spain, 1998 - V.}} or business premises(}{\cs15\lang2057\super \chftn }{\lang2057 ){\footnote \pard\plain \qj\fi-720\li720\nowidctlpar\tx-1440\adjustright {\lang2057 (}{\cs15\lang2057\super
\chftn }{\lang2057 )\tab ECHR Judgment of 25 March 1998, Kopp v. Switzerland, 1998 - II.}} fall under the concept of private life and correspondence which appear in Article 8(1). The interception of telephone calls constitutes interferenc
e by a public authority within the meaning of Article 8(2) of the Convention in the exercise of a right which is guaranteed to the individual, regardless of whether the calls in question are made on a third party's telephone line(}{\cs15\lang2057\super
\chftn }{\lang2057 ){\footnote \pard\plain \qj\fi-720\li720\nowidctlpar\tx-1440\adjustright {\lang2057 (}{\cs15\lang2057\super \chftn }{\lang2057 )\tab ECHR Judgment of 24 August 1998, Lambert v. France, not yet published.}}.
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\par According to Article
8(2) interference by a public authority is subject to strict conditions: it has to be 'in accordance with the law' and be 'necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well being of the country, fo
r the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of rights and freedoms of others'.
\par \sect }\sectd \margbsxn1134\sbknone\linex0\headery1134\footery1134\sectdefaultcl \pard\plain \qj\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057
The Registrar's office of the European Court of Human Rights has told the rapporteur that the ECHR has not yet ruled on the violation of the secrecy of correspondence in respect of electronic mail.
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\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\b\lang2057 3.\tab }{\b\ul\lang2057 CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE PROPOSAL}{\lang2057
\par }\pard \qj\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057
\par The proposed resolution is far from perfect. In particular:
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\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057 (d)\tab The first paragraph in the proposal extends the applicability of lawful
interception of telecommunications to 'new communications technologies'. Are bank transactions, Internet shopping, and electronic cash cards covered by this definition(}{\cs15\lang2057\super \chftn }{\lang2057 ){\footnote \pard\plain
\qj\fi-720\li720\nowidctlpar\tx-1440\adjustright {\lang2057 (}{\cs15\lang2057\super \chftn }{\lang2057 )\tab See '}{\i\lang2057 An appraisal of technologies of political control - Interim study',}{\lang2057
STOA, Luxembourg, 19 January 1998 (PE 166.499/Int.St.).}}? As this area closely impinges on individual freedoms and the protection of privacy
it would have been preferable to include an exclusive list of the technologies involved, and be prepared to update it at regular intervals. The draftsman for the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' rights does not therefore concur with the rapporteu
r for the Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs who claims in the explanatory statement in his report that the current proposal does not tip the balance between fundamental rights and internal security.
\par }\pard \qj\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057
\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057 (e)\tab The second paragraph provides that 'in view of ongoing progress in telecommunications technology', the }{\ul\lang2057 requirements}{\lang2057
need to be clarified on a number of points. Here too the text is extremely vague. It would have been desirable to state these requirements in greater detail, with reference to e
ach new technology. The requirements are extremely important as they mark the boundary between State action and individual freedoms. Nor is the purpose of a non-binding text couched in such vague terms very obvious.
\par }\pard \qj\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057
\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057 (f)\tab Another point the proposal passes over in silence is the }{\ul\lang2057 cost to the operators of the new technologies}{\lang2057
. Let us look at a few examples. You can have a mobile telephone with a smart card prepaid by coins or banknotes and thus escape police monitoring. The same applies to electronic 'purses' w
hich can be acquired for cash without passing through a bank account. Some technologies also allow one card to be charged from another (non-accountable system) which will make operations very difficult to trace. In such cases, if the police's needs are to
be met, operators might be obliged to make substantial changes to their systems, which could be extremely expensive and which need to be taken into account. Telecommunications-related sectors account for over 5\~% of the EU's GDP(}{\cs15\lang2057\super
\chftn }{\lang2057 ){\footnote \pard\plain \qj\fi-720\li720\nowidctlpar\tx-1440\adjustright {\lang2057 (}{\cs15\lang2057\super \chftn }{\lang2057 )\tab
According to Eurostat, telecommunications alone (which is only one of the sectors covered by the resolution) in 1996 employed 867 762 people in the EU.}}.
\par }\pard \qj\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057
\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057 (g)\tab Finally, within a
few weeks of the entry into force of the Amsterdam Treaty, should the Council really be rushing to adopt such a sensitive matter when the new Treaty will entail a change of legal basis? The Commission, pursuant to new Article K6(2) (Article 34 in the new
numbering), will have full power of initiative.
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\par In view of the above, the rapporteur recommends that the proposal be withdrawn and calls on the Commission, once the Treaty of Amsterdam has come into force, to draw up a new proposal taking these points into account.
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\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\b\lang2057 4.\tab }{\b\ul\lang2057 CONCLUSIONS}{\lang2057
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\par The }{\v\lang2057 \{JURI\}}{\lang2057 Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights calls on the }{\v\lang2057 \{LIBE\}}{\lang2057 Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs to include the following conclusions in its report:
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\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057 1.\tab Rejects the Council proposal,
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\par }\pard \qj\fi-720\li720\widctlpar\tx-720\adjustright {\lang2057 2.\tab Calls on the Commission to draw up a new proposal once the Treaty of Amsterdam has entered into force.
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