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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8561

11 October 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/usa
EP puts pressure on Commission over airline passenger data before visit of Commissioner Bolkestein to Washington - move to filtering data by national authorities

Brussels, 10/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament has called on the Commission to "immediately" define what the airline data on trans-Atlantic passengers (which can be sent to the US authorities ) is, in order to respect by mid-December, European regulation on access to airline company files.

In a resolution adopted on Thursday in Brussels (by 445 vote for, 31 against and 21 abstentions), Parliament points out that ongoing negotiations with the USA on access to "personal data"...

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