European Parliament to create a special committee on Pegasus
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The Bureau of the European Parliament decided to establish a cross-party special committee dealing with the use of the Pegasus surveillance system.
For the establishment of an EU special (investigative) committee on Pegasus and new provisions regulating the problems of surveillance tools, one of the intercepted persons, prosecutor Ewa Wrzosek, appealed, inter alia, at the beginning of February.
"Europe and MEPs will do their best to clear up the cases of surveillance of innocent people with the Pegasus system," the initiators, representatives of the EPP, said.
To establish a special committee of the European Parliament, you need an application signed by at least 177 MEPs, i.e. a quarter of the entire chamber, and then the consent of the heads of European parliamentary factions.
Such consent appeared, which means that MEPs can get ready to work. The European Parliament's special committees have investigative powers (they can call for hearings) only in cases involving the operation of the European Commission or other EU institutions.
