Austria: Parliamentary Hearing retention behind closed doors
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With the retention and terror laws has the justice committee of the Austrian Parliament deals on Tuesday. The occasion was a parliamentary action group with over 106,000 supporters. They demand an evaluation of the Austrian-terrorist legislation and that the federal government in Brussels committed to the abolition of retention. The hearing on Tuesday but was held behind closed doors. And the result reflects a dismal self-image of Deputies.
The press service of the Parliament, a report on the meeting of the Judiciary Committee. Accordingly, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee regretted that the hearing could not be held in public. He will inspire future cases a change in the rules of procedure. Why there was no public discussion of the issue, for example during a formal session is interrupted, not clear from the text.
"Firstly, the total control of the citizens decided, on the other hand debates conducted in camera, the opposite should be the goal for all politicians. A transparent government instead transparent citizen" criticized the non-attached MEP Martin Ehrenhauser. "A policy has the fear-free, self-determined and rational citizens, goes against the spirit of democracy."
The press service of the Austrian Parliament quoted from critical statements about a dozen invited experts. Only government officials defended the retention, as they currently do in the Constitutional Court . The Greens justice spokesman Albert Steinhauser sums on his website as follows:. "The representative of the (Department of Transportation) was happy that he can say at least that the Austrian implementation 'constitutionally arguable' is The Justice Department has, however with full vigor behind the policy and the Austrian implementation provided and will discuss whether the future also for copyright infringement stock data to be used. "
Hearing in some numbers were: From the entry into force on 1 Retention April through October are running on the clearing house of the Department of Transportation 168 stock data queries. Not only likely to have fallen in the fight against terrorism, even though the EU directive was adopted for this action area. In three of the 168 cases it was loud Department of Transportation to murder, in 58 to aggravated larceny, in 14 to aggravated robbery, to a 20-stalking, in 16 to serious fraud, in 20 to violations of the drug law and order in ten rapes. 19 cases had now been cleared up, including seven cases of stalking. How many cases without the clarified stock data would still unclear could not tell the officer. A murder is but certainly there. In the first 27 days of November, there were 20 other queries.
In addition, officials of the Interior Ministry have accessed nine times since April for the purpose of preventing data retained. Five times a cell phone location was interrogated four times an IP address. Caught was a person who had repeatedly purchased at the expense of others online. Also the author of a guide for making a bomb belt could therefore be identified.
The Green Justice spokesman Steinhauser spoke out after the hearing for an adjournment in order to prepare in peace a common Austrian position. This should be closed then represented at EU level. This proposal was in the Judiciary Committee but not a majority. It was also not a general call on the federal government to take action within EU bodies against data retention, even for an order for the evaluation of the Austrian terrorism laws. The SPÖ MPs Johann Maier promised later in a press release: "The discussions and negotiations between the parliamentary parties will continue." According to Steinhauser the issue next week will be discussed again in the House.
The Judiciary Committee took the citizens' initiative unanimously acknowledge and wrote against the votes of the Greens a non-binding resolution: "The relevant members of the government are invited to the National Council as quickly as possible after the results of the proceedings before the ECJ (and) the Constitutional Court to the National Assembly the submit legislative measures that are necessary to meet this evidence, taking on the aspect of data security of retained data, in particular the prevention of unauthorized access to stored data and the control of the cancellation at special emphasis has to be. " In other words, not even mandatory law changes MEPs want to tackle yourself. The Ministers should this then please vorformulieren.
The discussion in the Committee have both the criticism, and largely ignored the wishes of the citizens, criticized the citizens' initiative. The decision shows that the SPÖ had data retention. "Our goal still remains the elimination of retention in Austria and Europe, and a clear positioning of Austria to the abolition of the stock data policy," said Andreas Krisch from the Austrian Working Group.
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