Data Control and Tracing Clerks

Monitoring and Maintenance Clerk

In that Communication the Commission also found that the proportionality principle requires that Eurodac be queried for such purposes only if there is an overriding public security concern, that is, if the act committed by the criminal or terrorist to be identified is so reprehensible that it justifies querying a database that registers persons with a clean criminal record, and it concluded that the threshold for authorities responsible for internal security to query Eurodac must therefore always be significantly higher than the threshold for querying criminal databases.

The U.S. Department of Commerce should also conduct regular searches for companies making false claims about their participation in the Privacy Shield. More awareness-raising for EU individuals about how to exercise their rights under the Privacy Shield, notably on how to lodge complaints. Closer cooperation between privacy enforcers i.e. the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Federal Trade Commission, and the EU Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), notably to develop guidance for companies and enforcers. Enshrining the protection for non-Americans offered by Presidential Policy Directive 28 (PPD-28), as part of the ongoing debate in the U. ...[+++]S. on the reauthorisation and reform of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). To appoint as soon as possible a permanent Privacy Shield Ombudsperson, as well as ensuring the empty posts are filled on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB).

the Commission recommends that companies should not be allowed to publicly announce that they are Privacy Shield-certified until the Department of Commerce has finalised the certification; the Commission also recommends that the Department of Commerce conducts regular searches for companies falsely claiming participation in the Privacy Shield; the Commission recommends that the Department of Commerce conducts compliance checks on a regular basis; the Commission encourages the Department of Commerce and the Data Protection Authorities to work together to develop guidance on the legal interpretation of certain concepts in the Privacy Sh ...[+++]ield (e.g. with regard to the principle of accountability for onward transfers and the definition of human resources data); the Commission recommends that the Department of Commerce and the EU Data protection Authorities strengthen their awareness raising efforts (e.g. to inform individuals about how to exercise their rights under the Privacy Shield).

28. Encourages taking immediate action to create a financial environment for research into the prevention of further outbreaks, and to coordinate and strengthen medical research and the production of effective medicines, clinical tests and policies, not only against Ebola but also against certain other epidemic-prone, life-threatening infectious diseases that cause a high number of deaths in Africa, and to publish the data regarding vaccine safety and effectiveness; stresses the necessity of not withdrawing from research efforts, given the need for c ...[+++]ontinuous control of the epidemic, taking care to secure ethical conditions for the trials by means of informed prior consent of the patients who take part in the trials, transparency in the clinical data resulting from this research and effective access to these vaccines and treatments by the populations concerned (qualified staff and adequate infrastructure for care delivery, with the price not exceeding the real cost of production); expects the grant agreements of the Ebola+ programme to be made public with regard to their conditions and award procedures;