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Declaración sobre el acuerdo entre la UE y EE.UU. en materia del Programa de Seguimiento de la Financiación del Terrorismo
Publicado en 30 de noviembre de 2009 El acuerdo UE-EE.UU. en materia del Programa de Seguimiento de la Financiación del Terrorismo publicado hoy por el Consejo de la Unión Europea afecta directamente al sector financiero. A nuestro entender, el acuerdo sería aplicable a todos los proveedores de servicios de mensajería financiera de pagos internacionales y dictaría los términos conforme a los cuales las autoridades europeas deberán poner a disposición de sus homólogos estadounidenses los datos de los mensajes de pagos financieros para fines de la lucha antiterrorismo. SWIFT no participa en las conversaciones UE-EE.UU., pero está estudiando detenidamente los próximos pasos del proceso de decisión de la UE. La aplicación de este acuerdo debe asegurar el mantenimiento de las medidas de protección para los ciudadanos vigentes en la actualidad. El marco jurídico debe ser sólido y eliminar la posibilidad de cualquier ambigüedad, para garantizar que las sociedades puedan seguir operando bajo un ordenamiento jurídico claro. SWIFT respeta las leyes y las normativas de los países en los cuales opera. La protección de los datos de los clientes es y seguirá siendo la esencia del negocio de SWIFT. |
Mensaje enviado en nombre de Lázaro Campos To all National Member Group Chairpersons: As you know, we continue to follow the political debate on the “interim EU-US agreement on the processing and transfer of Financial Messaging Data from the European Union to the United States for purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program.” Today, the European Parliament rejected the interim agreement (a kind of institutional ratification of the Agreement). We are trying to understand the legal implications of this vote and the next steps in the negotiation of a potential long term cooperation agreement in between the EU and US administrations. Given the large number of media requests received, we posted the statement below today on the homepage of swift.com and distributed it to targeted media. We will keep you informed of new developments. Best Regards --- SWIFT statement on the European Parliament’s rejection of the interim EU-US agreement on the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme Brussels, 11 February 2010: The European Parliament today voted to reject the interim EU-US agreement on the processing and transfer of financial messaging data from the European Union to the United States for the purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme. Shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the US Treasury Department (UST) initiated the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP). Under the TFTP, the Treasury Department can issue administrative subpoenas for terrorist-related data. SWIFT data subpoenaed by the US Treasury for anti-terrorism purposes is limited and protected; searches are targeted, independently audited and monitored. In 2008, the Belgian data protection commission (Commission Belge de la Protection de la Vie Privée), who has jurisdiction over SWIFT, concluded that SWIFT respected all applicable Belgian data protection legislation, when complying with TFTP-related subpoenas. The measures that SWIFT has taken to protect its customers’ data have been recognised as groundbreaking and are now cited as best practice. In January 2010, SWIFT implemented a new dual-zone messaging architecture (as announced in 2007) to increase resilience, system capacity, commercial appeal, and enhance the protection of customer data. Since then, messages that are transmitted within SWIFT’s European zone (including intra-EU messages) are processed and stored in our European and Swiss data centres only. In the exceptional case of a legal request for any financial messaging data stored in either of these two locations, judicial mechanisms in place in EU Member States and Switzerland will apply. SWIFT has always, and will continue, to comply with the laws of the countries in which it operates, and protecting customer data will remain at the core of SWIFT's business. The European Parliament’s rejection of the interim agreement will have no impact on this situation. Ends-- |