On 27 June 2006, it was revealed by the media that Belgium's central bank, the National Bank of Belgium, had known about the U.S. government's access to the SWIFT databases since 2002. Belgian Christian Democratic and Flemish party claimed on June 28, that the actions of the CIA with SWIFT were in breach with Belgian privacy laws. The Belgian parliamentary committee that deals with the workings of the Belgian State Security Service ("Comité I") reported that SWIFT was indeed in violation with Belgian and European privacy laws.