Brussels, 01/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - "The report does not pinpoint mass infringement on a wide scale, but there is a certain amount of abuse", said Dick Oosting, Director of the European office of Amnesty International, at last week's presentation of the Amnesty report on the EU's anti-terrorism policy (see EUROPE n°8959). He feels that the balance between the fight against terrorism and the protection of fundamental rights in Europe is unsatisfactory. Gijs de Vries, the EU's anti-terrorism coordinator, took the same opportuity to point out that the report does not cover the EU's policy in full, and that this could create "confusion" among the public. The protection of personal data, for example, is not mentioned in the report, even though the EU considers it to be a fundamental right, he said, stressing that "not until examining the EU's policy as a whole can one judge whether or not a balance has been struck". Jonathan Faull, EU Director General for justice, freedom and security at the European Commission, stressed that "in its policy, the EU has never considered human rights to be barriers to the fight against terrorism, and never will". The Commission, he pointed out, is in the process of finalising its proposal on the creation of a European fundamental rights agency, and is also to present a range of green papers (on the presumption of innocence, judgement in absence and the burden of proof).