20110527-30-Work-and-lobby-weekend-pnr

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Version vom 05:42, 21. Mai 2011

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 planed Passenger-Name-Record-Directive (PNR-DR).

Structure

The idea behind this model of "work-and-lobby-weekend" ist as following:

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.

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.

Here is a map of that location - it is quite near to the metro-station porte de namur, even very near to the mep's houses, which doesn't matter.

On monday we'll have a conference room in Altiero Spinelli (Parliaments house).

Start-/Meeting-Point

Wether friday evening in the lobby of the 2go4-hostel, let's say 6pm.

or saturday morning in mundo between 8am and 9am.

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)

Requested

• Axel Voss
• Timothy Kirkhope
• Sophie In't Veld
• German Permanent Representation

Confirmed

• Jan-Philipp Albrecht
• Michael Speiser (EVP)
• Sophie Bots (ALDE)
• British embassy

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, 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
• Joe - joe.mcnamee (at) EDRi.org
• Wouter (Greens in the EP)
• Caroline De Geest (Liga voor Mensenrechten/ Human Rights League)

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)
• document-folders for the start - includes all with "*" marked documents from the next chapter (michael)
• anything else? - chips and drinks?

Ressources

Oberservatories

• 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), including:

• Statewatch Analysis of the proposal for a Directive on the use of Passenger Name Record data (march 2011) *)

• NoPNR: Documents of Commission, Council and NGOs, e.g.:

• Proposal for a directive ot the european parliament and of the council *)
• UK-Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the use of Passenger Name Record *)
• Statement of CEP on pnr (CEP = "Centrum für Europäische Politik", an EU-political think tank of the foundation "Stiftung Ordnungspolitik") *)

Positions

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

Analysis

• 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.

Academic Papers

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

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

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

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)
• pnr-flyer from march 2011 (only german, sorry)