Dave Noble
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European and US officials have been holding last-minute negotiations to renew a deal on the transfer of airline passenger data before it runs out on Saturday. There have been warnings of chaos if agreement is not reached. Airlines would face massive fines if they flew to the US without supplying the data - and they could be prosecuted under European data protection laws if they did.
Under a 2004 agreement between the EU and the US, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can access European airline reservation databases and pull out 34 pieces of information about each passenger. However, the 2004 agreement was annulled by the European Court of Justice in May, which ruled that officials had failed to give it an appropriate legal basis.
The judges said it could continue to operate until 30 September, while a new legal foundation was constructed. But discussions between the US and the EU appear to have gone beyond legal technicalities - which is why they are going down to the wire.
Full details at BBC NEWS | World | Europe | What the US knows about visitors
Dave
Under a 2004 agreement between the EU and the US, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can access European airline reservation databases and pull out 34 pieces of information about each passenger. However, the 2004 agreement was annulled by the European Court of Justice in May, which ruled that officials had failed to give it an appropriate legal basis.
The judges said it could continue to operate until 30 September, while a new legal foundation was constructed. But discussions between the US and the EU appear to have gone beyond legal technicalities - which is why they are going down to the wire.
Full details at BBC NEWS | World | Europe | What the US knows about visitors
Dave