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

EU-Australia PNR Agreement

• [2011-05-19] EC COM(2011) 280 final - Proposal for a Council Decision on the signature of the Agreement between the European Union and Australia on the processing and transfer of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data by air carriers to the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service

EU-US PNR Agreement

• [2011-05-20] COE 10453/11 - Draft Agreement between the United States of America and the European Union on the use and transfer of Passenger Name Record data to the United States Department of Homeland Security

Positions/Opinions/Resolutions

• [2010-05-05] European Parliament resolution of 5 May 2010 on the launch of negotiations for Passenger Name Record (PNR) agreements with the United States, Australia and Canada
• [2010-11-11] European Parliament resolution of 11 November 2010 on the global approach to transfers of passenger name record (PNR) data to third countries, and on the recommendations from the Commission to the Council to authorise the opening of negotiations between the European Union and Australia, Canada and the United States
• [2011-01-19] Article 29 Working Party Letter to EC on EU PNR agreements with the US, Canada and Australia – new negotiations
• [2011-03-25] COE 8118/11 German Position on Proposal for a Directive on PNR
• [2011-03-25] European Data Protection Supervisor on the Proposal for a Directive on PNR
• [2011-04-05] Article 29 Data Protection Working Party 00664/11/EN - Opinion on the proposal for a Directive on PNR

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:

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