AVIATION DATA
May 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has formally approved a EU-US agreement over transferring airline passenger data to American authorities, ignoring a legal challenge to the deal launched by the European Parliament. Despite MEP's voting to refer the issue to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), ministers have maintained it would not break the EU data protection directive. If the ECJ rules otherwise, the deal would be struck down however.
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has formally approved a EU-US agreement over transferring airline passenger data to American authorities, ignoring a legal challenge to the deal launched by the European Parliament. Despite MEP's voting to refer the issue to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), ministers have maintained it would not break the EU data protection directive. If the ECJ rules otherwise, the deal would be struck down however.
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