On Monday 28 November, European Commissioner for the Security Union Julian King presented an implementation plan for the directive setting up registers for air passenger data – the famous passenger name record (PNR) directive – which was adopted last April (see EUROPE 11537).
With 11 member states still not having started work in October on transposition of the PNR directive, the Commission wants to speed the process up and make the directive operational by May 2018 at the latest. ...