Translation of "Données de niveau 0 " (French → English) :

F. extremely concerned at the direction being taken by the debate in the Council, with Member States appearing to be moving towards a data protection agreement based on the lowest common denominator; fearing, moreover, that the level of data protection will be lower than that provided by Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and by Council of Europe Convention No 108 and that implementation of such an agreement might have a negative impact on the general principle of data pr ...[+++]otection in each Member State without establishing a satisfactory level of protection at European level,

the development of the Indicator should fully respect the responsibility of Member States for the organisation of their education systems and should not impose undue administrative or financial burdens on the organisation and institutions concerned; the method for data-gathering should take account of previous work in the field at international, Union and Member State level, and be devised and implemented in a cost-effective manner; the European Indicator of Language Competence shall be put in place as soon as possible, in accordance with the following terms of reference: data should be gathered on competences in first and second foreign languages: via a common suite of tests administered to a representative sample of the target populatio ...[+++]n in each Member State; from a representative sample of pupils in education and training at the end of ISCED level 2; where a second foreign language is not taught before the end of ISCED 2, Member States may, in the first round of data-gathering, choose to gather data for the second foreign language from pupils at the level of ISCED 3; for those languages for which there exists a suitable representative sample of learners in a given Member State; test scores should be based on the scales of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ; because respect for linguistic diversity is a core value of the European Union, the Indicator should be based upon data concerning the knowledge of all the official languages of the European Union taught as foreign languages in the Union; but for practical reasons it would be advisable, in the first round of data-gathering, for tests to be made available in those official languages of the European Union that are most widely taught in the Member States, to the extent that they provide a sufficiently large sample of testees ; Member States shall themselves determine which of those official languages are to be tested; the Indicator should assess competence in the four productive a ...

Purpose limitation: the proposal must provide a complete and precise definition of the purpose for which data are used; Proportionality of personal data processed: the proposal should lay down a maximum level of information that can be accessed, rather than a minimum level which it currently does; Sensitive data: it must be made clearer that such data can only be processed when it is strictly necessary.

(6) URGES all parties concerned (governments, parliaments, law enforcement and judicial authorities, industry, data protection authorities and other interested parties), as a matter of priority, to engage in an open and constructive dialogue at national and EU level aimed at finding solutions to the issue of traffic data retention that satisfies both the need for effective tools for prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of criminal offences and the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons, and in particular their right to privacy, data protection and secrecy of correspondence.

Use of these standard contractual clauses will be voluntary but will offer companies and organisations a straightforward means of complying with their obligation to ensure "adequate protection" for personal data transferred to countries outside the EU which have not been recognised by the Commission as providing adequate protection for such data.

Prior to the "safe harbor" (see IP/00/301), personal data have already been flowing to the US, sometimes legally, sometimes illegally. By providing a simple framework for data transfers to the US, the "safe harbor" will reduce such circumvention as well as ensuring adequate protection for transferred data and setting a standard in the US which will pull data protection standards there upwards.