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| 'Airline data deal' for US and EU | 'Airline data deal' for US and EU |
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| US and the European Union have reached a new deal for sharing airline passenger data, officials say. | |
| No details were made public, but any deal would replace a lapsed agreement authorising European airlines to hand over 34 pieces of information. | No details were made public, but any deal would replace a lapsed agreement authorising European airlines to hand over 34 pieces of information. |
| The US has demanded more information about travellers entering its airspace in the years since the 9/11 attacks. | The US has demanded more information about travellers entering its airspace in the years since the 9/11 attacks. |
| EU government ministers were being formally notified of the details before information was made public. | EU government ministers were being formally notified of the details before information was made public. |
| EU ambassadors were due to meet in Luxembourg early on Friday to discuss the final terms of the deal. | |
| Justice ministers from across the EU are scheduled to meet later and are expected to discuss any agreement. | |
| Dispute | |
| Differences had arisen over the deal after US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff led requests to share the data across a range of US counter-terrorism agencies. | |
| Previously, data had been submitted to US Customs and Border Protection, but Mr Chertoff has said that agencies including the FBI should have access to the information. | |
| Negotiations were also reported to have been focusing on how the US stores the data, and how the US obtains it - with the EU favouring a system where airlines "push" information to the US, instead of letting them "pull" it from databases. | |
| The EU first agreed to the data transfer in 2004, but the European Court of Justice annulled it in May 2006, on a technicality. |