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-Do

• Translate the "How to request your PNR data from the U.S. DHS and travel companies" into German and other languages; request templates need to be modified for each country to cite national laws)
• List of Judgements related to PNR, Data Retention, Profiling
• Create a Glossary with terms, eg. Profiling, Advanced Passenger Information (API)

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

Proposal of a 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
• [2011-02-02] EC SEC(2011) 132 final - Impact Assessment Accompanying document to the Proposal on PNR, Summary
• [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
• [2011-03-28] CoE 8016/11 - Note on the possible inclusion of intra-EU flights
• [2011-04-13] CoE 8954/11 - The Senate of Romania - Opinion on the application of the Principles of Subsidiarity and Proportionality
• [2011-04-13] CoE 8976/11 - The National Council of the Republic of Austria - Opinion on the application of the Principles of Subsidiarity and Proportionality
• [2011-04-15] CoE 9103/11 - Outcome of Proceedings to the possible inclusion of intra-EU flights
• [2011-04-29] CoE 8458/11 - Proposal for a Directive of the Council and the European Parliament 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

More about EU-Australia PNR Agreement

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
• [2011-04-12] CoE 8850/11 - CoE Legal Service report on the Proposal for a Directive on PNR (German version)

Analyses

• [2011-03] 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
• [2011-03-21] Centrum für Europäische Politik (CEP) - Schwenke, M./Langner, B. (2011): Statement on PNR.
• [2011-05-27] Hasbrouck, E. (2011): Analysis of the draft US-EU agreement on PNR for the Identity Project / PapersPlease.org.

Academic Papers

• Brouwe, E. (2009) The EU Passenger Name Record (PNR) System and Human Rights: Transferring Passenger Data or Passenger Freedom?
• Bennett, C.J. (2005): What happens when you book an airline ticket? The collection and processing of passenger data post-9/11. In: Zureik, E./Salter M.B. (eds): Global Surveillance and Policing. Portland: Wilan.
• 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

Press

• Press Monitoring on PNR

Miscellaneous

• [2009-01-10] Hasbrouck, E.: How to request your PNR data from the U.S. DHS and travel companies
• [2011-04-08] Hasbrouck, E.: Testimony at EP hearing on PNR, including slides of PNR ecosystem and data flows

Organizations and Websites for additional information

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

Tools

• Pippi Longstrings - the ultimate tool for tracking and reading law an policy proposals
• Research-Toolbox on Lobbying from Corporate Europe Observatory
• Tratten - project dedicated to follow the legislative work of the European Parliament
• 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:

• CoE = Council of the European Union
• DG = Directorate Generale, e.g. Home Affairs
• EC = European Commission
• EP = European Parliament
• MEP = Member of European Parliament
• PNR = Passenger Name Record