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"en.20120419.15.4-304-500"2
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"I voted against the agreement on the use and transfer of Passenger Name Records to the United States for two reasons. Firstly, this agreement is an ‘executive agreement’ under US law, which will not be ratified by the Senate and which cannot create rights on the part of anyone. The United States is therefore not bound in any way to apply the ‘guarantees’ for European passengers contained in the agreement if they believe that their national law runs counter to this. Any judicial redress against data misuse that European citizens tried to bring in US courts would, consequently, be compromised in advance. The agreement does not improve the legal situation of European passengers travelling to the United States, given that its status under US law does not enable the creation of new rights.
Secondly, this agreement is merely a European ratification of US practices as regards the transfer of passengers’ personal data. I find, on the whole, that this practice goes too far and I am unable to agree to a text which, in addition to extremely difficult procedures for entry into the United States, subjects passengers travelling in good faith to generalised suspicion. You do not fight terrorism and serious crime by treating in advance every passenger on a transatlantic flight as a guilty party."@en1
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