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<BODY>Hi, <div>Many thanks to all for having informed those not in Baku on what was going in such meetings.</div><div>As being a european I have no information for the moment on what the EU MPs understood by "intermediate international standards.."accepted by all (who all?, within which process? within which international forum? which will take how long?)</div><div><br></div><div>For the content "intermediary", may be they think to something like the content of "EU directives" which are more developed than just "principles" but live room to Member States to develop up to the level of a "law"according with what fits within their general legal framework". In the EU framework of course the European Court is competent after...not here for those "intermediary international standards" that would be adopted by third countries, so will remain the general problem of oversight and of follow up of the application of those standards.</div><div><br></div><div><b>In the field of Data Protection</b>, as long as UN does not move (making binding and updating the DP principles the UN assembly adopted unanimously in 1990), those standards are the Council of Europe's convention 108 and its additional protocol, which is in the process of modernization with much public inputs. </div><div><br></div><div>This convention is open to third country and the modernized one will be more developed and tired, than the original one, and will include more powerful monitoring mechanisms. Lastly, its conventional committee gives already much space to different stakeholders to participate. ..even if we cannot talk of "consensus process for adopting recommendations" and so on.</div><div><br></div><div>For the time being I think it could well be much more efficient than the mechanism on the table in US offered to international community for a multi stakeholders decision process under the umbrella of the DOD for such standards.</div><div><br></div><div>The international network of NGOs for privacy and data protection called "Public voice" is supporting this convention, including those from US, South Korea....</div><div><br></div><div> At the Court level, for the Members of the Council of Europe (including EU MS) the European Court for Human Rights is competent...In America it could well be the Inter-american Court of Human rights , in Africa the African Court of Justice and Human Rights ..in Asia Pacific ? </div><div><br></div><div>Marie<br><div><br>
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De : "parminder" <parminder@itforchange.net><br>
À : governance@lists.igcaucus.org;<br>
tijani.benjemaa@planet.tn<br>
Objet : Re: [governance] Meeting with EC/EP: short report<br>
Date : 11/11/2012 21:59:40 CET<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Saturday 10 November 2012 03:32 AM,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tijani.benjemaa@planet.tn">tijani.benjemaa@planet.tn</a> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:e53d38d6-6ce2-4a26-b0cb-07a113a36476@planet.tn" type="cite">
Dear all,<br>
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Sorry for the late report: No Internet access in the meeting
rooms.<br>
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snip<br>
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The European parliamentarians expressed their support to all those
issues, and introduced a concept of intermediate international
standards accepted by all and easily applicable, to be between the
international general principals such as the human rights
declaration and the national laws. <br>
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Very interested to know what kind of international standards they
were referring to that fall in between " general principals such as
the human rights declaration and the national laws". Can someone
throw some light on the nuances involved here.<br>
<br>
parminder <br>
<blockquote cite="mid:e53d38d6-6ce2-4a26-b0cb-07a113a36476@planet.tn" type="cite">
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Dioplo Foundation emphasized the importance of the Governments’
commitment to support the IGF and its multi-stakeholder model<br>
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The meeting was held in a warm and friendly ambience.<br>
<br>
Y.J. PARK and Tijani BEN JEMAA<br>
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