Examples of using PNR data in English and their translations into Czech
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EU and PNR data vote.
Several other countries have begun to consider the idea of using PNR data.
At the same time, when discussing PNR data, we also need to look beyond this.
But let me add that none of these bilateral agreements cover PNR data.
We have been told that PNR data offer opportunities for fighting crime.
The Commission and Council seem to be confused as to what can andcannot be done with PNR data.
In reply, I should say that the agreement provides that PNR data may be used for three purposes, which are specified.
It is also important to avoid each Member State creating its own PNR data system.
PNR data are effectively commercial information provided by the passenger to the carrier on a voluntary basis.
This may surprise you, but I am not even opposed in principle to using PNR data for those purposes.
For example, the PNR data are used in immigration control or in fighting'ordinary' crime.
This requirement has been highlighted even further by taking into account the various ways in which PNR data can be used.
What action will you take to prevent PNR data being used in the profiling and definition of risk factors?
Those are a certain number of third countries, not the United Kingdom,who have begun to require carriers to transfer PNR data to them.
Coming back specifically to the subject of our discussion, PNR data transfer should, in fact, be something obvious.
I shall come back briefly to purpose, because there are many misunderstandings about what can andcannot be done with PNR data.
In other words, you can use PNR data in a targeted manner in the context of a specific ongoing, concrete investigation.
You said something else that was inaccurate:you repeated several times in your address that PNR data are useful without demonstrating how.
As far as the purpose of the PNR data is concerned, the draft recommendation asserts that this is not compliant with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Since the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Parliament has made a major contribution to the efforts to conclude these agreements, and therefore it must be fully andregularly informed of any developments relating to PNR data.
As the rapporteur said,the schemes for using PNR data are unclear and legally insecure and risk looking like a surveillance state for its own sake.
You can use PNR data for automated systematic analysis, for example against drug trafficking, but in that case you do not need to store the data. .
The European Parliament maintains its position that PNR data must not, under any circumstances, be used for data mining or profiling.
However, it should be pointed out that PNR data cannot be used for profiling, which is why the Commission sought to clarify- in my view, successfully- the differences between the expressions'risk assessment' and the aforementioned profiling.
Finally, Parliament once again calls on the Commission to provide factual evidence that'collecting,storing and processing PNR data is necessary' and also invites the Commission to'envisage less intrusive alternatives.
Some Member States consider that PNR data could be of general use in combating illegal immigration, in safeguarding public health and for air safety.
Nevertheless, it appears to be the case that, in certain countries that have used PNR data, they have genuinely proved to be a useful weapon in the fight against terrorism and crime.
I should like to add two comments in my brief introduction: 1 PNR data may indeed only be used by the airlines and thus, not by the Member States' authorities themselves, and, of course, their use by the airlines is subject to permission from the European Union.
I have also been told- but there is no way of verifying this because the bilateral agreements andthe bilateral negotiations are secret- that it may concern PNR data of non-EU citizens or EU citizens on flights with destinations other than the United States, and therefore, they are not covered by a possible EU-US agreement.
Mrs Malmström has said that this is not about PNR data, but rather that all data that is collected should apparently serve the purpose of fighting terrorism and combating crime.