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Ruling annuls US-EU data deal: European Court of Justice overrules E.U. Council of Ministers' agreement.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 05-JUN-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The European Court of Justice last week ruled that the E.U. Council of Ministers did not have the legal status to agree that European airlines should give U.S. officials airline passenger name record data and that the European Union until Sept. 30 to find a new legal solution.

The court ruled that the E.U. Data Protection Directive, upon which the Council and the European Commission based their actions, did not apply to data collected for security purposes.

Without such an E.U.-U.S. pact, European airlines would be in the awkward position of...

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