New EU/USA PNR agreement published

The new agreement between the USA and the EU about the transfer of Passenger Name Record data by air carriers to the US Department of Homeland Security has been published.

You can find the agreement itself here. Council Decision 2007/551/CFSP/JHA on the signing of the agreement is available here.

This new agreement - that applies provisionally from the date of signing (July 26th 2007) - replaces the agreement concluded on October 19th 2006 which expired on July 31st 2007 at the latest. (See also Council Decision 2006/729/CFSP/JHA). It is intended to be a long-term arrangement between the two parties that should set this matter to rest.

For previous posts on the matter, see here, here, here and here (there may have been others too, but that is enough for now).