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EU-USA: TFTP (SWIFT): Transfer of personal financial data by Europol to the United States

22 June 2012

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- Europol Activities in Relation to the TFTP Agreement: Information Note to the European Parliament 1 August 2010 – 1 April 2011 (20 pages, pdf)
- Letter from Europol to Chair of the LIBE Committee (pdf), Joint Supervisory Body (JSB)
- Europol JSB inspects for the 2nd year the implementation of the TFTP Agreement: Public Statement (pdf) which says:

"In line with the provisions of the Agreement, Europol does not see or manage the SWIFT data or know the amount of data actually transferred. No information has been released by the US regarding the amount of data transferred."

See also: AGREEMENT: between the European Union and the United States of America on the processing and transfer of Financial Messaging Data from the European Union to the United States for the purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (pdf)

And see: EU hands personal data to US authorities on daily basis (euobserver, link):

"EU and US co-operation in combatting terrorism remains shrouded in secrecy as Europol, the EU police agency, refuses to render public an inspection report that details how financial data is handed over to US authorities. The document, written by the joint-supervisory body (JSB) which supervises the data protection rules are properly applied at Europol, noted on Thursday (21 June) that the EU agency transfers bulk data on a daily basis to the US department of treasury."

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