Speech: Future of the Safe Harbour Agreement in the light of the NSA affair

Text of a speech by Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission, EU Justice Commissioner at the European Parliament, Strasbourg, 15 January 2014.

Safe Harbour is a joint agreement between the US and the EU to ensure that Europeans' data are protected, even when they are being managed by American companies outside Europe. In the light of the NSA hacking scandal, the Parliament's inquiry concluded that the agreement should be suspended.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Data 'Safe Harbour' under threat as US castigates EU Parliament over Snowden http://www.europeansources.info/record/data-safe-harbour-under-threat-as-us-castigates-eu-parliament-over-snowden/

ESO: Background information: NSA: White House task force recommends surveillance curbs http://www.europeansources.info/record/nsa-white-house-task-force-recommends-surveillance-curbs/

ESO: Background information: Communication From The Commission To The European Parliament And The Council on the Functioning of the Safe Harbour from the Perspective of EU Citizens and Companies Established in the EU http://www.europeansources.info/record/communication-from-the-commission-to-the-european-parliament-and-the-council-on-the-functioning-of-the-safe-harbour-from-the-perspective-of-eu-citizens-and-companies-established-in-the-eu/

European Parliament: Press Release, 15.01.2014: MEPs debate future data agreement with US in the wake of NSA scandal http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20140115STO32701/

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