Proposition 54K2767

Projet de loi portant modification de la loi du 11 décembre 1998 relative à la classification et aux habilitations, attestations et avis de sécurité.

General information ¶

Submitted by

MR Swedish coalition

Submission date

Nov. 9, 2017

Official page

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Status

Adopted

Requirement

Simple

Subjects

protection of privacy secret service public safety

Voting ¶

Voted to adopt

CD&V Vooruit Open Vld N-VA MR PP VB

Voted to reject

PVDA | PTB

Abstained from voting

Groen Ecolo LE PS | SP DéFI ∉

Party dissidents ¶

• Siegfried Bracke (N-VA) abstained from voting.

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Discussion ¶

Jan. 18, 2018 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)

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I am referring to the written report.

Mr. Thiébaut, you are the only speaker registered. I give you the word.

This is obviously not everyone’s concern, given the number of people present. However, it is well known that security issues are sensitive issues that need to be addressed with care and measure. Security accreditation not only at the time of hiring but also in the course of a career in the private sector is a principle we support.

However, we were not fully reassured by the responses that the Minister gave us in the committee in response to the fairly significant criticism of the Committee R or the National Labour Council regarding the current text, in particular with regard to the capacity of the services to assume these new tasks, in particular at the level of appeals and the impact that this measure could have on private security workers within the companies concerned. All these considerations will justify my group’s abstention.

We have heard the Minister’s proposal to carry out an evaluation of this text in the future. We propose to anchor the principle in the law and that is the meaning of the amendment that my group submits today.

Mr. Speaker, without repeating the history of this project that we followed in committee, I would simply like to emphasize that this is an additional proof, if necessary, of the vigilance that we demonstrate in terms of security and the fight against terrorism. This is one of the priorities of our government, as well as of the Reform Movement. It is important to recall it.

Following the attacks, the substantial increase in the number of requests for security checks, in particular from the private sector, required clarification and extension of the scope of this legislation. With this new text, this will now be done since the bill corresponds not only to the guidelines taken by the National Security Council but we also seem to meet the needs of the relevant actors. The Government has therefore remained attentive to the indispensable balance between the imperatives of public security and the protection of privacy.

Furthermore, I would like to recall, following my colleague Mr Thiébaut’s observation, that an assessment of the new provisions will take place in order to determine what the concrete consequences will be for the workload of the various services as well as for the appeal body. For all these reasons, we support this bill.