Brussels, 24/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - The EU Council has authorised the European Commission to begin negotiating an international agreement with the United States, which will allow the latter to have direct access to files of European airline companies. In practice, the agreement will create ad hoc derogation to Community legislation on the protection of personal data.
Last December, the Commission and US authorities had reached a compromise whereby the United States made a number of...