European Parliament
(B7-0025/2012)
(B7-0026/2012)
(B7-0028/2012)
(B7-0035/2012)
Sophia in 't Veld,
author.
– Mr President, I do not know about the procedure. Simply, the most important question has remained unanswered, and I would like to be able to put the question again to the Commissioner in order to get an answer before we leave.
The question is: under current EU data protection rules, what can a company do to protect itself if it has an operation in the US and it has to comply with the subpoena? The subpoena says that data stored in Europe – and therefore covered by EU law – must be provided to the US authorities. This is not through a mutual legal assistance treaty; this is a company which has an operation in the US and is being obliged to provide data stored in the EU.
That data is covered by EU laws. How is the Commission going to protect those companies, which are asking for protection?

