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EU-PNR: INTRA-EU-FLIGHTS: Germany opposes UK proposal to extend the EU-PNR scheme to cover flights between EU states

01 April 2011

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EU-PNR: INTRA-EU-FLIGHTS: Germany opposes UK proposal to extend the EU-PNR scheme to cover flights between EU states: 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). Germany has intervened in the discussion to: 1) restrict the scope of the collection of PNR (Passenger Name Records) to international flights only; 2) to reduce the time data is stored; 3) limiting the list of offences.

It says to include intra-EU flights would raise "serious issues regarding free movement": "including intra-EU flights would seriously restrict the citizens’ freedom of movement and, given the higher proportion of travelling within the EU, create a level of surveillance which would no longer comply with fundamental rights." and: "Germany is opposed to retaining full PNR data for 30 days and notes that a period of 24 hours is sufficient for real-time analyses of API data," and:

"Full PNR data should be used for law enforcement only if the individual offence is truly serious.. Full PNR data should be used for threat prevention only if certain facts provide reasonable grounds to assume that there is a specific imminent threat to the life, limb, or liberty of a person, to the existence or security of a Member State or to the prevention of a general threat"

Background: Council of the European Union: backing for UK proposal to extend the EU-PNR scheme to cover flights between Member States: Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the use of Passenger Name Record data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime - The possible inclusion of intra-EU flights (EU doc no: 8016-11, pdf)

- UK seeking to extend Commission proposal to cover intra-EU flights from the start and UK proposal: 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- Proposed amendments (pdf)

For Background see: Statewatch's Observatory: EU-PNR (Passenger Name Record) (2011)

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