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Petition opposes ENISA removal from Crete
Action to prevent the removal of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) from its current headquarters on the island of Crete is being taken by the Association of Friends of ENISA, which on Wednesday said that it had launched a nationwide and European campaign to this end.
On its website - www.friendsofenisa.eu - the association invites all European citizens to sign its online petition to the European Council and the European Parliament to renew ENISA's mandate at its current official seat in the city of Iraklion on Crete.
Noting that the European Commissioner for the information society Viviane Reding had expressed satisfaction with the work done by ENISA, the group claimed that the "bureacracy surrounding her" was attempting to engineer ENISA's removal from Iraklion by setting up a new telecommunications organisation based in another European country that will take over ENISA's mandate, instead of assigning these competencies to ENISA.
The group asked that people oppose this effort to dismantle ENISA on the grounds that it "undermines the development of a secure Information Society in Europe; wastes without reason significant resources already invested; and violates the European principles of decentralization and regional development."
"We are determined to defend the right to contribute to the European regional development and the evolution of a secure Information Society by supporting ENISA, and we have launched a petition to the European Parliament and the European Council for the long-term renewal of ENISA mandate in its current seat," the association notes on its website.
