When: Monday, January 24, 2022, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMWhere: Online
This event is organised by City Law School Institute for the Study of European Law (ISEL), Jean Monnet Chair in Law & Transatlantic Relations, and Queen Mary School of Law.
Passenger Name Records (PNR) constitutes one of the thorniest areas of EU international data transfer mechanisms.
The EU has a broad array of agreements with many third countries, including more recently the UK, to be found within the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) The CJEU in repeated decisions has set out incedingly complex thresholds for PNR transfer to satisfy.
The EU’s own PNR directive is the subject of many recent challenges and opinions before the CEJU.
An increasing number of adequacy decisions operate with fragility in parallel with these arrangements, an area where the CJEU and EU actors indicate significant challenges ahead for the UK in particular, as an area where the UK was a key driver of reforms of PNR law.
The seminar examines what oversight exists as to compliance with the PNR provisions of the TCA.
The seminar considers the characterisation of the PNR provisions in the TCA as criminal justice coordination or their links to the scope of border control. How are the provisions affected by the Commission's adequacy decision?
It considers whether the PNR provisions of the TCA in fact comply with the CJEU judgment in EU Canada PNR Opinion 1/15?