US SEEKS AIRLINE PASSENGER DATA DISCLOSURE DECISION.

Transport Europe, April, 2004

The US Government has repeated the "essential" need for the European Commission to take a decision acknowledging the adequacy of the system for protecting the personal data of passengers flying to the United States. During a videoconference broadcast from Washington on April 13, Stewart Verdery, Assistant Secretary from the US Homeland Security Department, said arrangements with the EU about establishing files on passengers on transatlantic flights are "legally defensible". His statement shows that his government has not dropped the idea of penalising airlines that fail to provide such information. The United States will "do what we need to do to ensure that flights coming in are properly secured", he said. Thus, Mr Verdery called on the Commission to make its adequacy...

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