AIR DATA PROTECTION
March 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament is investigating whether it could launch legal action at the European Court of Justice against a joint EU-USA decision made in February allowing European airlines to transfer to US Customs data on passengers flying to American airports. MEPs have voted 414 votes to 44 to support a resolution regretting the decision and claiming it constitutes an infringement of the European data protection directive. The parliament called on the European Commission to suspend the agreement, while MEPs consider whether there is scope for ...
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