Passenger Name Record

Background and Information

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Timeline

• 9-10 June 2011: JHA Council (Luxembourg) on EU-Australia-Agreement
• 14 June 2011: Panel at CFP (Washington DC)
• 16 June 2011: LIBE Committee: Debate on EU-Australia-Agreement (Brussels)
• 22/23 June 2011: EP Plenary
• Mid-June 2011: Opinion by Fundamental Rights Agency
• August 2011: BXL Shut down / Holiday & Travel season
• September 2011: Final vote on Australia-Agreement
• Nov./Dez. 2011: Proposal for new Data Protection Directive » Safe Harbor etc.

Actions / action ideas

• Anti-PNR Campaign by Open Rights Group, UK
• Work-and-Lobby-Weekend in Brussels, 28-30 June 2011
• Summer time is travel season. Distribute leaflets and start actions at airports and travel agencies! Make sure you have media coverage.

To-Talk-To

• List of Members of the European Parliament (MEP) by Name
• List of MEPs by Country
• List of MEPs by Group
• Who-is-Who directory of the European Union

Resources

Observatories

• European Parliament Legislative Observatory: Fight against terrorism and serious crime: use of passenger name record data
• Statewatch Observatory: EU surveillance of passengers (EU-PNR, 2003-2008) - revisited 2011
• Statewatch Observatory: EU PNR Directive (Passenger Name Record) (2011)
• Statewatch Observatory: EU-US PNR Agreement
• NoPNR: Documents of Commission, Council and NGOs

Official EU-Documents

PNR-Directive

• [2011-02-02] EC COM(2011) 32 final - Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the use of Passenger Name Record data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime
• [2011-02-10] COE 6359/11 UK-Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the use of Passenger Name Record data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime

Positions

• European Data Protection Supervisor
• Article 29 Data Protection Working Party
• German Delegation

Analyses

• Statewatch - Hynes, M. (2011): Proposal for a Directive on the use of Passenger Name Record data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime (March 2011).
• Statement of CEP on PNR (CEP = "Centrum für Europäische Politik", an EU-political Think Tank of the Foundation "Stiftung Ordnungspolitik")
• Hasbrouck, E. (2011): Analysis of the draft US-EU agreement on PNR for the Identity Project / PapersPlease.org (May 2011).

Academic Papers

• de Hert, P./Bellanova, R. (2011): Transatlantic Cooperation on Traveler's Date Processing - From Sorting Countries to Sorting Individuals.

FAQ

• What's in a PNR? by Edward Hasbrouck

References

• Hasbrouck, E.: Testimony at EP hearing on PNR, including slides of PNR ecosystem and data flows (April 2010)
• How to request your PNR data from the U.S. DHS and travel companies (English; could use German and other translations; request templates need to be modified for each country to cite national laws)

Organizations and Websites for additional information

• NoPNR! by Alexander Sander
• Papers, please! by Edward Hasbrouck
• European Digital Rights (EDRi) on Airline Passenger Data

Tools

• Research-Toolbox on Lobbying from Corporate Europe Observatory
• How-To for a decentralized Public-Phone-Call-Campaign called Callshop Meeting

Material

• German PNR-Flyer (March 2011) and its Open Document-Sourcecode
• Translation project:
  • DE/NoPNR-flyer
  • EN/NoPNR-flyer
  • FR/NoPNR-flyer

Links

• Small Guide for "Privacy-Travellers" to Brussels (German)
• EU-lobbying on data retention (English)
• How-To EU-Lobby (German)

Terminology

Some abbreviations:

• PNR = Passenger Name Record
• MEP = Member of Parliament
• EC = European Commission
• EP = European Parliament
• DG = Directorate Generale e.g. Home Affairs
• Article 29 Group = EU Data Protection Working Group