Friday, 20 April 2012

Voting against the Passenger Name Record


As mentioned on my twitter account earlier (you can see my feed to the right of this blog!), I have voted against the Passenger Name Record. Constituents have already started to email me about this issue.


More information on PNR is featured in a story from the Parliament magazine:

http://www.theparliament.com/press-review-article/newsarticle/meps-approve-controversial-pnr-agreement/

I have voted against this agreement as there is no reciprocity here at all - it is purely about the transfer of PNR to the US.

Note also that the US can transfer PNR to 3rd party states (Art 17 - 1). The member states affected by this need only to be notified after the event.

It is interesting to note that Conservative MEP's voted for this agreement.