The United States and the European Union today came to an interim agreement enabling passenger name record data to be transferred to the U.S. by European carriers.
"The interim agreement enables PNR data in the reservation systems of air carriers to continue to be transferred to the U.S. in the same way as under the previous agreement," the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States said in a statement today.
The European Court of Justice in May ruled that the E.U. Council of Ministers did not have the legal status to agree that European airlines should give U.S. officials airline passenger name record data and gave the European Union until Sept. 30 to find a new legal solution
(BTN, June 5).
The agreement, however, awaits approval by the E.U. Council, and "will apply provisionally as of the date of signature," expiring July 31, 2007.