Brussels, 26/09/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament, who followed its rapporteur Jorge Salvador Hernandez Mollar (elected member of Partido Popular), amended in the aim of strengthening the protection of personal data, the Council decision proposed on Portugal's initiative (yet another example of an initiative by a Member State in the "third pillar") to create a secretariat for joint control authorities responsible for data protection. These authorities were established by the...