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EU-USA: Informal Justice and Home Affairs Ministers meeting in Toleda, Spain: EU-USA Joint Declaration on Aviation Security

01 January 2010

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Informal Justice and Home Affairs Ministers meeting in Toleda, Spain: EU-USA Joint Declaration on Aviation Security: Joint Declaration (pdf). In addition to covering body scanners and biometrics the possibility of an EU PNR (Passenger Name Record) database is raised again. The current proposal in the EU is for a PNR system which would record data on people flying in and out of the EU - not flights within the EU (EU doc no: 5618/2/09, June 2009, pdf).

Press statement (22.01.10): "The Vice-president of the European Commission and head of security, Jacques Barrot, stated that the Community Executive “is going to speed up its report on technologies and body scanners” and restart the project to create a common passenger name record (PNR) for Europe with “the urgency the ministers have undertaken to back this project”.

The three politicians highlighted the contradiction in the exchange of passenger data with the United States but not between European States, “as if a terrorist could not catch a plane in Heathrow to travel to Madrid”, said Rubalcaba [Spanish Interior Minister]".

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