Society for the Planning of Collections

Program Resource Data Base Collection System

Program Data Requirements and Collection Strategy

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17. Commends the current discussions, inquiries and reviews concerning the subject of this inquiry in several parts of the world, including through the support of civil society; points to the Global Government Surveillance Reform signed up to by the world's leading technology companies calling for sweeping changes to national surveillance laws, including an international ban on bulk collection of data, to help preserve the public's trust in the internet and in their businesses; points to the calls made by hundreds of leading academics, civil society organisations and 562 international authors, including five Nobel laureates, for an end ...[+++] to mass surveillance; notes with great interest the recommendations published recently by the US President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Report on the Telephone Records Program Conducted under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act and on the Operations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; strongly urges governments to take these calls and recommendations fully into account and to overhaul their national frameworks for their intelligence services in order to implement appropriate safeguards and oversight;

C. whereas the abovementioned leaks reveal that EU Member States were allegedly cooperating in the US-led PRISM Programme or have developed similar intelligence‑gathering programmes, such as the ‘Tempora’ Project led by the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ); whereas press reports have revealed that GCHQ has tapped into undersea fibre-optic cables to obtain access to telephone conversations and internet traffic under a programme codenamed TEMPORA, basing itself on paragraph 4 of section 8 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which allows the UK Foreign Secretary to issue a certificate for broad intercept ...[+++]ion of categories of material relating to terrorism or organised crime; whereas there is evidence which indicates that the US has been involved in spying on diplomatic personnel of the Permanent Representations of the Member States, as well as the offices of the EU institutions; recalls, in this regard, the bugging of an MEP’s office by the British security services;

Article 16 of that Regulation provides that Union financial measures in the area of basic data collection are not to exceed 50 % of the costs incurred by Member States in carrying out the programme of collection, management and use of data in the fisheries sector.

In order to ensure that Member States strive to set up efficient collection schemes, they should be required to achieve a high level of collection of WEEE, particularly for cooling and freezing equipment containing ozone-depleting substances and fluorinated greenhouse gases, given their high environmental impact and in view of the obligations contained in Regulation (EC) No 1005/2009 and Regulation (EC) No 842/2006.