| Chris F.A. Johnson 2004-11-23, 8:27 am |
| * and everything.
*
* At the first meeting of the new Council of Justice and Home Affairs
* Ministers in Brussels on 29-30 November 1993 they adopted the following
* Resolution on "the interception of telecommunications" which speaks for
* itself and reproduced here in full:
*
# CONFIDENTIAL MEMO
#
# "COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON THE INTERCEPTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS"
#
# The Council:
#
# 1) calls upon the expert group to compare the requirements of the Member
# States of the Union with those of the FBI;
#
# 2) agrees that the requirements of the Member States of the Union will be
# conveyed to the third countries which attended the FBI meeting in
# Quantico and were mentioned in the memorandum approved by the Ministers
# at their meeting in Copenhagen (Sweden, Norway, Finland [countries
# applying for accession to the European Communities], the USA and
# Canada), in order to avoid a discussion based solely on the
# requirements of the FBI;
#
# 3) approves for practical reasons the extension to Hong Kong, Australia
# and New Zealand (which attended the FBI seminar) of the decision on
# co-operation with third countries which was taken at the Ministerial
# meeting in Copenhagen'
[
The whole world, not just EU...Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong...
]
# 4) hereby decides tha
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