29/04/2016 (Agence Europe) - Transatlantic data protection. On Friday 29 April, the European Commission put the proposal to the Council of Ministers of the EU that an EU-US data protection framework agreement be signed and concluded. This agreement was finalised with the United States in September of last year and puts in place a data protection framework for all legal and police cooperation sectoral agreements, both existing and future, such as the EU-US PNR, for example. Once the agreement...