While the EU Parliament called in March 2014 for the suspension of the safe harbor program, the U.S.–EU summit of March 26, 2014, indicated that the program will remain in place but is likely to be modified. In a joint statement, U.S. and EU leaders communicated that they are "committed to strengthening the Safe Harbour Framework in a comprehensive manner by summer 2014, to ensure data protection and enable trade through increased transparency, effective enforcement and legal certainty when data is transferred for commercial purposes."
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