Axel Voss

Axel Voss ( born April 7, 1963 in Hameln ) is a German politician ( CDU). He belongs to the European Parliament since 2009 and is a member there in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

  • 2.1 Privacy 2.1.1 Reform of the European Data Protection Directive ( 95/46/EC)
  • 2.1.2 Global surveillance and espionage
  • 2.1.3 Passenger data storage ( PNR)
  • 2.1.4 SWIFT agreement

Life

Training

After graduation in 1982 at the CJD school in Elze Voss graduated from 1983 to 1987 to study law at the University of Trier and the Ludwig- Maximilians- University in Munich. In the summer semester 1987, he attended a language school in Paris. He then continued his studies at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University, where he graduated with the first legal state exam in August 1990. His electives were European and international law and international relations.

After the clerkship followed on 18 March 1994, the second legal state examination. Since August 1994 he has been admitted as a lawyer and worked.

Full-time activities

From May 1994 to December 1995 led Axel Voss technically and programmatically the project and the editorial on the European principle of subsidiarity as a television program for the CineDokumentFilm, Munich. From June 1994 to January 2000 was Voss citizen advisor to the European Commission at the Commission Representation in the Federal Republic of Germany. Since August 1994 Axel Voss has also worked as a lawyer. From 2000 to 2008 he was a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Remagen for European Affairs.

Party race

Axel Voss joined the CDU in 1996 in a. He began his political work at the local level as Knowledgeable citizens in the Council Committee of the City of Bonn for " International Relations and Local Agenda ". From 1999 to 2004 he was head of the European Working Group of the CDU in Bonn from 2004 to 2009, he was her county chairman. In addition, Axel Voss February 2005 to October 2011 Deputy District Chairman of the CDU Middle Rhine. Since 7 October 2011, Axel Voss District Chairman of the CDU Middle Rhine, which counts with more than 20 000 members to the strongest of the eight districts CDU in NRW.

Deputies activity

Since 2009, Axel Voss is a member of the European Parliament for the Middle Rhine region, which is composed of the cities of Bonn, Cologne, Leverkusen and the Rhein-Sieg and Rhine Erft. He was on the state list of the CDU North Rhine -Westphalia, Rank 8, elected and belongs to the EPP Group. Voss is a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs ( LIBE ) and substitute member of the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI ), the Committee on Petitions ( PETI ) and the Delegation Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of Europe and Latin America.

He is also a member of the Special Committee against organized crime, corruption and money laundering ( CRIM ) and in the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.

Voss he serves as a member of the European Union Parliamentarians European Parliament and is the contact of the white ring, a relief organization for crime victims and their families, for European and International Affairs in the European Parliament.

Others commitment

  • Axel Voss is President of the European Union ( EUD ) Bonn / Rhein-Sieg.
  • Vice President of the Friends and Sponsors of Mérite Européen
  • Member eV in the Foundation Christian Social Policy
  • Member of the Evangelical Working Group (EWC)
  • Member of the Municipal Political Association ( KPV)
  • A member of the SME and Business Association (MIT)
  • Chairman of the Association for the Promotion of the manor Bisperode
  • A member of the German - Australian Lawyers Association ( DAUSJV eV)
  • Member of Carnival Association Honor Guard of the City of Bonn eV Father Urban Club
  • Member of Carnival Association Bonn city soldiers Corps from 1872 eV
  • Member of the carnival association KG Wiesse Müüs eV Bonn
  • Member of the association partnership Bonn- Cape Coast (Ghana)
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Cologne Forum for International Relations and Security Policy eV ( KFIBS )
  • Member at Rotary RC Bonn

Private

Axel Voss is Protestant, married, has two daughters and lives in Bonn since 1994.

Political positions

As a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs ( LIBE), Axel Voss preoccupied with the field of interior and justice policy. Issues here are primarily data protection, migration policy, asylum, and the cross-border police and judicial cooperation, such as transfer of criminal proceedings or the establishment of common research methods in forensic science.

Privacy Policy

Axel Voss is committed to a " purpose-built " data sharing. This means that only as little data as possible to be collected and the consumer is granted the same right to the self- control of the data.

Reform of the European Data Protection Directive ( 95/46/EC)

Since the currently valid privacy policy can no longer keep pace with technological progress step from the year 1995, on January 25, 2012 put the EU Commissioner Viviane Reding presented the draft to the " General Data Protection Regulation '(COM 2012 ( 11) ). The design needs to be adopted under the codecision procedure of the Council and Parliament, which is why the revision of the EU Data Protection Directive for some time employed by the European Parliament.

Axel Voss is in negotiations regarding the new policy as a rapporteur for the Group of the European People's Party ( EPP) heavily involved in the legislative process. He sits in the negotiations for a balance of interests between the positions of consumers and those of the economy. Voss holds a sustainable Europe's economic development only possible if the review of the Data Protection Directive and the interests of the digital economy are taken into account.

Axel Voss calls for a right to delete existing data on the internet, at the same time he sees a right to be forgotten as technically unenforceable on. Next to Voss is also committed to the Europe-wide introduction of internal data protection officer.

In a ranking of the Members of the European Parliament in relation to the Data Protection Regulation Axel Voss lands on the first place of all the Members who have fought for a reduction of data protection in Europe. Voss looks at the positive / negative distinction of more privacy and less protection by the Lobbyplag ranking as a criticism, since a " more privacy" is not the same as with a real added value for citizens. Axel Voss cites in this context the potentially increasing bureaucracy, which bulky data protection rules could bring with them on. Next recognizes Voss Lobbyplag not as an independent and objective initiative as the platform through the company " Open Data City " and the representation of interests " vs. Europe. Facebook " is operated.

Global surveillance and espionage

Voss held in July 2013 - after the first of Edward Snowden brought to light clandestine mass surveillance programs PRISM and XKeyscore - access of third countries to European data for unlawful. Prior to the publication of the draft for the new EU Data Protection Regulation, the European Commission had the then Article 42 shall be deleted. It stipulated that the authorities of third countries only have access to European data, if it so this is a deal a legal basis. Voss advocates a re- introduction of Article 42 in the EU Data Protection Regulation, a ..

Passenger data storage ( PNR)

For the Group of the European People's Party ( from Germany CDU / CSU) Voss rapporteur for passenger data storage ( PNR). He is a proponent of preventive government data collection. He strongly supported the retention of telecommunications data without occasion, as well as passenger passenger data. Voss supports the retention, because he sees you as a tool for prevention and suppression of acts of terrorism.

SWIFT agreement

Another issue for the Axel Voss is responsible is the SWIFT agreement. It is about the means of submission of bank and account movements in Europe to the U.S. authorities. Voss advocates that adequate protection of the data must be safeguarded by European customers. He defended the SWIFT agreement despite the NSA affair with the words " It is irresponsible to try to expose the Swift agreement, since it is also the European investigators provides vital information on combating terrorism " after the EU parliament for a suspension Swift Agreement with the United States had expressed.

Turkey's accession to EU

In the opinion of Axel Voss EU membership would lead to financial, political, cultural and perhaps even geographical overtaxing the European Union. Therefore, he argues against full EU membership for Turkey. He encourages close links between Turkey and the EU on a one privileged partnership that would allow for greater cooperation at all policy fields. For example, Turkey could also be more involved example, in addition to the agricultural and environmental policy in the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU.

Voss represents the model of the privileged partnerships. In his view, this would support the reform process in Turkey without that Turkey's political and economic problems would burden the EU. Another problem looks Voss in the acceptance of the EU in the population. After the enlargement of the EU by ten or twelve new Member States in the years 2004 and 2007, support for EU has declined sharply in the population. The identification of citizens in the "old" Member States with Europe have suffered due to the large expansion very much. Another perceived alienation in Europe would be very problematic in his opinion.

Evangelical Working Group of the CDU/CSU PRISM (surveillance program)
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