EU Reaches Determination on Passenger Name Record Data Collection

Quoting from the 16th December 2003 speech by Frits Bolkestein, Member of the European Commission in charge of the Internal Market, Taxation and Customs concering EU Data Protection:

  • “Firstly, clear limits on the amount of data to be transferred with a closed list of 34 elements. Furthermore, the US has undertaken not to require airlines to collect any data where any of these 34 elements would be empty. In practice, most PNRs consist of no more than 10-15 items.” The agreement does not cover CAPPS II.
  • See this Department of Homeland Security Fact Sheet: Homeland Security and European Commission Reach PNR Agreement
  • See also my October 9 posting, EU Issues Update on Airline Passenger Data and European Commission/US Customs talk on Passenger Name Record (PNR) transmission, February 2003.
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