EU-PNR: Countries rally behind UK on EU flight data collection (euractiv, link): "The UK yesterday won an expected victory at a meeting of Justice and Home Affairs ministers when seventeen countries said they would like
EU-PNR: Countries rally behind UK on EU flight data collection (euractiv, link): “The UK yesterday won an expected victory at a meeting of Justice and Home Affairs ministers when seventeen countries said they would like to include intra-EU flights in a draft directive on passenger name records. EurActiv previously reported that Germany was a major opponent to this measure and sources reveal this is still the case. They are joined by Austria, Slovenia and Luxembourg.”
See: Proposal for a Directive on the use of Passenger Name Record data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime – German position (Doc no: 8118/11, pdf) and Statewatch Observatory: EU surveillance of passengers (EU-PNR, 2003-2008) – revisited 2011