Interview: Prof. Manfred Nowak, University of Vienna
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Facebook data privacy case to be heard before European Union court
Facebook data privacy case to be heard before European Union court.
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EnerTech Balkans 2015, The Delegation Of the European Union
Mr Freek Janmaat, Head of the European Integration Section, The Delegation Of the European Union to the Republic of Serbia.
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BRUSSELS: European Union lawmakers backed on Tuesday a long-term plan to end overfishing of cod, sprat and herring stocks in the Baltic Sea, the first such plan to be adopted under the EU's reformed common fisheries policy.
European Parliament members (MEPs) in the Fisheries Committee passed the multiannual plan which would combine the management of cod, herring and sprat stocks into a single plan to take account of their interdependence.
Cod feed on sprats and herrings, and herrings and sprats sometimes feed on the eggs of cod, meaning the health of one stock affects the others.
Currently, only cod are subject to a management plan.
By managing several species together the plan can better take into account their feeding habits as well as environmental conditions which affect stock levels, leading to more sustainable fishing, according to the European Commission.
"The multispecies approach is much more effective than managing a single species," said MEP Jaroslaw Walesa who is leading the proposal through parliament.
MEPs strengthened the original Commission proposal by requiring that stocks be kept above levels which ensure that no more fish are caught than a given stock can reproduce in a year.
"The plan for the Baltic proposed by the European Commission was not complete, but the MEPs have succeeded in improving it," said Lasse Gustavsson, executive director of marine conservation group Oceana.
The multiannual plan for the stocks of cod, herring and sprat in the Baltic Sea was proposed by the Commission in October last year.
The proposal will now be voted on at a plenary session of the European Parliament at the end of April before negotiations between member states and lawmakers can start.
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The European Union's data protection authorities have approved Amazon Web Services (AWS) data processing agreement (DPA), giving European businesses and governments the all-clear to use Amazons datacentres.
Werner Vogels, chief technology officer at Amazon.com, said: Providing customers with a DPA that has been approved by the EU data protection authorities is another way in which we are giving them assurances that they will receive the highest levels of data protection."
The agreement means organisations will be able to run applications and host data in 11 AWS regions around the globe, including two in the EU Ireland (Dublin) and Germany (Frankfurt).
Amazon said the approval means AWSs customers will be able to replicate EU data to other AWS datacentres outside the European Economic Area. As such, organisations can now move data, in accordance with European laws, to any AWS infrastructure region around the world.
The European data authorities' Article 29 working party said: The EU data protection authorities have analysed the arrangement proposed by Amazon Web Services and have concluded that the revised data processing addendum is in line with standard contractual clause 2010/87/EU and should not be considered as ad-hoc clauses.
This means customers can sign the AWS data processing addendum with model clauses without the need for authorisation from data protection authorities, as would be necessary for contract clauses intended to address EU privacy rules that have not been approved, known as 'ad-hoc' clauses.
Antanas Guoga, Member of the European Parliament, said: I believe the Article 29 working party's decision to approve the data processing agreement put forward by Amazon Web Services is a step in the right direction. I am pleased to see that AWS puts an emphasis on the protection of European customer data. I hope this decision will also help to drive further innovation in the cloud computing sector across the EU.
Oil company Shell is among the big users of AWS in Europe.
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