Thursday, November 12, 2009

EU will deposit the customer data banks U.S. agencies.

The European Union intends to provide the U.S. virtually unlimited access to the data of the European banking customers, reports DW-World, with reference to the newspaper Financial Times Deutschland. In the disposal of the newspaper got a draft treaty with the United States, prepared by the Government of Sweden, currently chairing the EU. According to this document, the American special services, leading the fight against terrorism, continue to be able to legally obtain data on international and domestic remittances from within Europe. The draft treaty stresses that the demands the U.S. side must be justified and the maximum specified. However, if such a request will not be formulated clearly, the order of U.S. intelligence data will be transmitted to the package, including name, address, account number and passport banking client. According to the Financial Times Deutschland, the Americans will have access not only to the data of the Belgian company Swift, a majority of international money transfers in the EU, Africa and the Middle East, but also to data of national companies engaged in remittances. Sweden intends to ensure acceptance of this agreement before December 1 will enter into force on the Lisbon Treaty, which provides the European Parliament the right to vote in matters of justice and domestic policy, said the agency AFP. European ministers are expected to adopt the document on November 30. Agreement on access to bank data of Americans Europeans will be in effect until January 2011. After this contract will be renewed with participation of the European Parliament. Foreign ministers of EU countries have opened the way for the signing of the agreement in late July 2009. American investigators with the server in the United States track down the names and addresses of Europeans engaged in translation, ever since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The new agreement requires them, because the Europeans continue to banking data will be stored only in the EU.

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