20110527-30-Work-and-lobby-weekend-pnr
Work-and-lobby-weekend on PNR
The idea behind this is to get people from europe together to talk, (net)work and lobby against the planned Passenger-Name-Record-Directive (PNR-DR). We will also work on the PNR agreements between the EU and the US / Australia.
Structure
The idea behind this model of "work-and-lobby-weekend" ist as following:
| time | what's going on? |
|---|---|
| friday evening - saturday morning | arrival, get together |
| saturday 10:00 | arrival and start |
| saturday morning | Ralf, Wouter and Alex will present on the state of play |
| saturday | substantive work on the EU-PNR directive and the agreements |
| sunday 11:00 | drafting FAQ, develop campaign compiling "common paper", preparing for monday |
| monday 9:30 | get access badges at European Parliament, Rue Wiertz 60 entrance |
| monday 10:00-17:00 | meetings in the European Parliament, room WIB 05M003 |
| monday evening | saying good-bye |
Everybody should feel free to use the time on monday or further on for his own lobbying-campaign. Once you're inside of Altiero Spinelli it is very easy to get in contact with MEP's or their right hands.
Etherpad
There is an etherpad for everything around this weekend: https://etherpad.foebud.org/pnr-weekend
When?
2011, May 27 to 30 (friday til monday)
Where?
Brussels, Belgium.
For the weekend we will spend the day-time at the small conference room at mundo, Rue d'Edimbourg 26, 1050 Bruxelles, Tel. +32-2-894 4611
Here is a map of that location - it is quite near to the metro-station porte de namur, even very near to the European Parliament.
On Monday we'll have a conference room in the Willy Brandt building of the European Parliament (room 05M003).
Meeting point for those without EP entry passes is at 9:30 in front of the Altiero Spinelli (ASP) building, main entrance, Rue Wiertz 60, 1047 Brussels (where the bridge goes between two buildings over the street, on the back side if you're coming from Place Luxembourg).
Start-/Meeting-Point
Wether friday evening in the lobby of the 2go4-hostel, let's say 6pm.
or saturday morning in mundo at 10:00 sharp.
Lobbying to whom?
Proposals
- Timothy Kirkhope (ECR, UK)
- Jan-Philipp Albrecht (Greens, DE)
- Axel Voss / Monika Hohlmeier (EPP, DE / DE)
- Birgit Sippel (S&D, DE)
- Sophie In't Veld / Alexander Alvaro (ALDE, NL / DE)
- Rui Tavares / Cornelia Ernst (GUE, PT / DE)
- Reinhard Priebe, Director - Internal Security, DG HOME Job description: To provide overall strategic orientation and management of Directorate A "Internal Security", within the framework set by the Directorate's-General mission statement and annual work programme. The Directorate operates under the direct supervision of the Director-General.
- Despina Vassiliadou, Policy Officer - Access to information, DG HOME Job description: Contribute to EU policy regarding access to information, in particular access to Passenger Name Record data (PNR).
- Peter Csonka, JHA Coodinator, Hungarian Council Presidency
- Stavros Lambrinidis (S&D, ESP) Vice President of Parliament, Involved in new Data Protection Directive
- maybe we should try to invite some media/press as well: i.e. Claus Hecking (FTD), Valentina Popp (euobserver)
Confirmed for meeting on Monday
11:00-12:00 Sophie Bots (policy advisor to MEP Sophie In't Veld, ALDE group)
13:00-14:00 uk-torie-advisor
14:00-15:00 Michael Speiser (policy advisor to the EPP group in the EP)
15:00-15:45 Grace Knott und Robin Healey (UK representation to the EU)
15:45-16:00 Jan Philipp Albrecht (MEP, Green group)
16:00-17:00 Fabrizia Panzetti (policy advisor to the S&D group in the EP) - canceled, therefore longer diskussion with speiser, knott, healey and albrecht alltogether
to be confirmed
- German representation to the EU (most likely)
- Hungarian Presidency of the Council (unlikely)
- EU Commission (unlikely)
- advisor ECR/Tories (most likely)
Who is joining?
- Michael - DE, from "AK Vorrat", micha_ebeling (edd) mail36 (dot) net
- Alex - AT, from NoPNR, info (edd) nopnr (dot) org
- Ralf Bendrath, AK Vorrat / netzpolitik.org / EDRi, policy advisor of MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht, bendrath (at) zedat (dot) fu-berlin (dot) de
- Hauke, Liberal, Green and Radical, EU-Privacy Issues (privacydirective.eu) and Critical Infrastructure, activism[äätt]gierow[bunkt]eu
- Marius - DE, AK Vorrat, maurice (äth) prodlab (dot) net
- Frank (Datenschutzraum e.V.)
- Joe - joe.mcnamee (at) EDRi.org
- Wouter (civil liberties policy advisor to the Greens in the EP)
- Caroline De Geest (Liga voor Mensenrechten/ Human Rights League)
- Franziska, law department, Uni Luxembourg
- Erik (internet policy advisor to the Greens in the EP)
- Rocco (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, only Sunday)
Accomodation
We were looking for different solutions but didn't catch any real good solution. We would like to recommend to get to the 2go4-hostel because the prices are okay there, there is free wifi and a public kitchen and it's no problem to stay there even if you're older than 40 summers (even though that those guys didn't like to help us in reserving a 8-bed-room for ourselves ...).
If you like to stay anywhere else - no problem. There is a little overview of some cheap hostels on the german wiki page "brussels travel guide for privacy-activists".
Questions?
Don't hesitate to ask Michael, Marius or Ralf.
What do we need on-site?
- very important: printer (alex)
- printer-paper (alex)
- WIFI-router (michael)
- beamer incl. long vga-cable (michael)
- belgium umts-stick (ryo via michael)
- some power extension cables (michael, marius, ...)
- some pencils, glue, scissors (michael)
- folders at a number of twelve - including following documents (michael):
- proposal for the PNR directive from the Commission
- latest version of the directive from Council negotiations
- summary of the impact assessment from the Commission
- UK amendments for the directive
- German opinion on the directive
- CEP position paper
- Statewatch analysis
- Article-29 working party opinion
- German constitutional court: the data retention ruling (extract)(press summary)
- Ralf will bring these documents in addition:
- draft EU-US agreement
- draft EU-Australia agreement and comparative table of the 2008 and 2011 agreements (not online) see also diff between NLE/2011/0125 and NLE/2011/0126
- Article 29 Working Party letter to Commission
- US Senate resolution
- opinion of the legal service of the EU Council (German)
- annotated version of the PNR directive (Chris Pounder, Amberhawk, not for publication yet)
- European Parliament resolutions from May 2010 and November 2010
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 (Passenger Name Record) (2011)
- [Statewatch: Ovservatory on EU-US PNR agreement http://www.statewatch.org/pnrobservatory.htm]
Positions
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.
- "What happens when you book an airline ticket? The collection and processing of passenger data post-9/11,” in E. Zureik and M. B. Salter (eds), Global Surveillance and Policing (Portland: Wilan, 2005).
References
- Hasbrouck, E.: What's in a PNR?
- Hasbrouck, E.: Testimony at EP hearing on PNR, including slides of PNR ecosystem and data flows (April 2010)
Financial support
Is unfortunately not available. We have to finance and work on ourselves.
But: If any big trouble in this, then please dont hesitate to contact us. There may be support in single cases!
Ride to brussels
- i will take the way from hanover (germany) to brussels (belgium) with the car, either by duisburg and venlo or by cologne an aachen. if anybody wants to join me on my way, please contact me. i will start on friday and return on late monday. (michael).
Pictures
Pictures from our meetings.
at mundo
enjoying good weekend-weather at mundo
graffiti in brussels
that's us ... :)
at the conference room
Some images of our friday-to-sunday-home Mundo (stolen from here).
Some images from the 2go4-hostel (stolen from here).
community-room including open kitchen
Material
- german pnr-flyer from march 2011 and its odt-sourcecode
- Translation project:
Links
- How we started to fix our idea: former wiki-site (see also its history!)
- Brussels-travel-guide for privacy activists (unfortunately only in german language)
- EU-lobbying on data retention (english)
- How-to-EU-lobby (german)
- Blog with PNR-news NoPNR (german; documents in english)
- 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)
Side Events
On thursday evening there will be the#4 Net Politics Beer Brussels - #npbbxl, find additional information here: http://doodle.com/zpxv67kuh4zgxq8f, I (Hauke @giereow) will attend, who else?