Europe and Fundamental>>Rights...

https://secure.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/webdav/site/mySite/shared/Documents/Consultation/Comments/2014/14-02-14_letter_Council_reform_package_EN.pdf

To:

President of the Council of the European Union
General Secretariat
Council of the European Union
Rue de la Loi 175 1048 Brussels

From:

Peter Hustinx
Supervisor

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We consider that EU rules on data protection need to be reformed urgently in order to provide more consistency and uniformity in data protection across the EU, thus creating a level playing field, both for online and traditional market players. Citizens, in turn, deserve a more effective protection of their fundamental rights to privacy and data protection, which can only be delivered if the applicable legal framework is coherent (i.e. covers the broadest possible range of data processing entities and activities), as well as consistent (i.e. is applied in a manner as uniform as practicable throughout the 28 Member States).

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A copy of this letter was sent to the Permanent Representations of the Member States, Mr Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR, Chair of the LIBE Committee of the European Parliament, and Ms Viviane REDING, Vice-President of the European Commission.

https://secure.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/webdav/site/mySite/shared/Documents/Consultation/Comments/2014/14-02-14_letter_Council_reform_package_EN.pdf

P.s: European citizens can be very interested by what is being done at the EDPS. We are talking about fundamental rights.

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Cette dame m'a informée que Luuk van Middelaar - que j'ai rencontré lors de la rencontre organisée par M. l'Ambassadeur des Pays-Bas, en septembre 2013, sur le rôle des intellectuels en Europe - donnait aujourd'hui, à la Foire du Livre de Bruxelles, une présentation sur le thème:

"Quelle évolution pour l'Europe?"