Showing posts with label MEPs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MEPs. Show all posts

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.