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Data protection likely to dominate EU-USA ministerial meeting

Brussels, 07/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - The knotty problem of data protection will be one of the main themes of the two-day European Union-United States justice and home affairs ministerial meeting which begins in Washington on Wednesday. Among the main issues on the agenda will be the start of negotiations on the transfer of passenger name records (PNR), the start of talks on an EU-US data protection framework agreement, and also things such as cybercrime, the follow-up to the Toledo declaration on aviation security, and the US visa waiver program (VWP). The European delegation will be made up of Internal Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, Belgian Home Affairs and Justice Ministers Annemie Turtelboom and Stefaan De Clerck, and Secretary of State for Immigration and Asylum Melchior Wathelet. Representing the incoming Hungarian Presidency will be Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics and Home Affairs Minister Sándor Pintér. The United States will be represented by Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary for Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. (B.C./transl.rt)

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