Press Release: New EU-US agreement on PNR improves data protection and fights crime and terrorism

The European Union and the United States have initialled a new agreement on the transfer of air passengers' data for flights from the EU to the US. If adopted by the European Parliament and EU Member States in the Council of Ministers, the new agreement on Passenger Name Records (PNR) will replace the current agreement from 2007, improving data protection whilst providing an efficient tool to fight serious transnational crime and terrorism.

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European Commission: Memo/11/797: Frequently Asked Questions: the new EU-US agreement on the transfer of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/11/797&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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