During their meeting in Brussels on Thursday 7 March, the interior ministers of the 28 EU member states will focus on the state of transposition of the European Passenger Name Record (PNR) Directive (2016/681), a programme for collecting the data of air passengers on flights to and from the EU for the purposes of counter-terrorism and fighting serious crime.
The PNR Directive entered into force in 2016 and is due to be transposed by 25 May (see EUROPE 11537, 11532). The member states...