EU-PNR: Proposal for a Council Framework Decision on the use of Passenger Name Record (PNR) for law enforcement purposes (EU doc no: 7656/2/08, pdf)
And later Discussion of the Council’s position on EU-PNR (EU doc no: 9514/08)
The Council is driving a “coach and horses” through the original proposal including increasing its scope beyond terrorism and organised crime. Although “Passenger Information Units” (PIUs) who will vet passengers are to some extent limited in their use of data national “competent authorities”, to whom all the data can be passed, are to be allowed to further process the data if they come across “other offences” (ie: any crime, see Article 4.5).
See also: European Data Protection Supervisor: EDPS expresses serious concerns about EU PNR proposal (Press release and Opinion, pdf)