13/01/2017 (Agence Europe) – The European Parliament’s civil liberties committee has asked the European Commission to make a genuine assessment of the Privacy Shield mechanism that will replace Safe Harbour rules on the commercial transfer of personal data between the EU and the United States (see EUROPE 11605). On Thursday 12 January, MEPs discussed a draft non-binding resolution, recognising that Privacy Shield is more advanced than Safe Harbour, but shortcomings remain. Although Privacy Shield was adopted in 2016 (Parliament is not a co-legislator on it), MEPs want to remain vigilant over questions of bulk collection of data for national security processes and the means available to Europeans to launch appeals, explained the committee chair, Claude Moraes (S&D, United Kingdom). (SP)