Weitergabe von Passagier-Daten: Europäisches Parlament geht zum EuGH

Wien (OTS) - Das Europäische Parlament wird den EuGH in der Frage
der Weitergabe personenbezogener Daten von Flugpassagieren anrufen,
um eine Annullierung eines diesbzüglichen Abkommens mit den USA zu
erreichen, dem der EU-Ministerrat im Mai zugestimmt hatte. Dies
teilte der Präsident des Europäischen Parlaments, Pat Cox, heute der
Presse in Dublin mit. Dies betrifft auch den Entscheid der
Europäischen Kommission, wonach die übermittelten Flugpassagierdaten
in der ausgehandelten Regelung ausreichend geschützt würden.

Hier weitere Informationen im Detail :

EP President Pat Cox has decided to ask the EU Court of Justice, on
behalf of the European Parliament, to annul the Council of the
Union's decision of 17 May 2004 on the conclusion of an agreement
with the USA on the processing and transfer of passenger name record
(PNR) data by air carriers to the United States Department of
Homeland Security, Bureau of Customs and Border Protection. Mr Cox
has also decided to appeal against the Commission decision stating
that the level of protection of passenger data provided by the USA is
adequate.
Mr Cox took this decision in the light of recommendations made on 16
June by the EP Legal Affairs Committee and the Conference of
Presidents.
The Legal Affairs Committee had already voiced serious reservations
in April about the procedure chosen by the Commission for concluding
an agreement with the United States (consultation of Parliament
rather than the assent procedure) as well as the risk that the
agreement might infringe the fundamental right of data protection
enshrined in Community law, in particular Article 286 of the EC
Treaty.
In its resolution of 31 March 2004, Parliament officially warned the
Commission and Council of the legal and institutional implications of
these acts.
A request for the Court's opinion on the envisaged agreement,
submitted by Parliament before the agreement was concluded, now
becomes null and void.
Speaking in Dublin today, Pat Cox said: "This decision was taken
after widescale consultation and reflects the concern felt by a large
majority in the European Parliament on the need to defend European
citizens' fundamental rights and freedoms. While naturally accepting
that the US Administration is perfectly free to exercise its
sovereign right to protect its own homeland, both the EU and the US
must guard against a new form of creeping extra-territoriality. This
issue must be addressed in the context of EU-US dialogue."

OTS0143    2004-06-25/12:55

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