12. Interception of bank transfer data from the SWIFT system by the US secret services (debate)

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Council and Commission statements: Interception of bank transfer data from the SWIFT system by the US secret services

Paula Lehtomäki (President-in-Office of the Council) and Franco Frattini (Vice-President of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Ewa Klamt, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Martine Roure, on behalf of the PSE Group, Jean-Marie Cavada, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Giusto Catania, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Carlos Coelho, Jan Marinus Wiersma, Sophia in 't Veld, Mihael Brejc, Stavros Lambrinidis, Giovanni Claudio Fava, Paula Lehtomäki and Franco Frattini.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled pursuant to Rule 103(2):

- Mihael Brejc, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Brian Crowley, Romano Maria La Russa and Roberta Angelilli, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the alleged interception of bank transfer data from the SWIFT system by the US secret services (B6-0385/2006),

- Martine Roure, on behalf of the PSE Group, on access to transferred bank data by the US secret services (B6-0386/2006),

- Monica Frassoni and Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the interception of bank transfer data from the SWIFT system by the US secret services (B6-0391/2006),

- Alexander Alvaro, Sophia in 't Veld and Margarita Starkevičiūtė, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the interception of bank transfer data from the SWIFT system by the US secret services (B6-0393/2006),

- Sahra Wagenknecht, Giusto Catania and Umberto Guidoni, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on violation of data protection rules in the European countries by the use of SWIFT data by the US (B6-0395/2006).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 06.07.2006, Item 6.15.