Brussels, 02/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - The co-president of the Green/EFA Group of the European Parliament, Paul Lannoye, has written to Nicole Fontaine saying that, following the remarks of Desmond Perkins, official responsible for the encryption system at the European Commission, and following the exchange of letters between Chris Patten and the rapporteur of the EP's temporary Echelon committee, Gerhard Schmid (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.10), "this topic has now exceeded its political scope...