EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT – DATA CASE
April 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has decided to challenge at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) the agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States over transferring airline passenger data to US authorities. MEPs think the data transfer deal breaks the EU's data protection directive, and so the European Commission was wrong to agree its terms without parliamentary approval.
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has decided to challenge at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) the agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States over transferring airline passenger data to US authorities. MEPs think the data transfer deal breaks the EU's data protection directive, and so the European Commission was wrong to agree its terms without parliamentary approval.
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