CEF eDelivery is helping Europe fight crime and terrorism
@3rd Meeting on the Application of the PNR Directive in the Hague, the Netherlands
On Thursday 8 February 2019, the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eDelivery Building Block participated at the 3rd meeting on the application of the Passenger Name Record (PNR) Directive with Member States representatives in the Hague, the Netherlands. Adrien Ferial, CEF eDelivery Technical Office leader, presented eDelivery and how public and private sector stakeholders can benefit from the CEF eDelivery services in the PNR context.
The PNR Directive
The PNR Directive ensures the use of passenger name record data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime in the support of European law enforcement. The PNR Implementing Act, on the common protocols and data formats to be used by air carriers when transferring PNR data to Passenger Information Units (PIUs), promotes, among two other protocols, the use of AS4 protocol for the transfer of PNR data. AS4 is an open standard that ensures secure and reliable exchange of digital documents and messages in various contexts, it is the foundation of the eDelivery Building Block.
Since 25 May 2018, the PNR Directive is being actively implemented in the Member States. The Commission remains strongly committed to promote the use of AS4 to the largest extent possible. The CEF eDelivery team offers training sessions and deployment support of the CEF eDelivery components to public authorities. Support is also available to other stakeholders, such as airlines, that want to reuse Domibus, the European Commission sample implementation of the AS4 profile.
CEF eDelivery live webinar for the PNR community
To further support the PNR community, CEF eDelivery invites airline companies to attend a webinar that will provide information on the CEF eDelivery specifications and the CEF eDelivery Service Offering, to be held on 27 March 2019.