Regulation of the use of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 8:42 am
This legal development updates the regulation on the use of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crimes.
What does it affect?
To the PNR (Passenger Name Record) data of persons travelling on oman phone number data international flights, both commercial and private.
Exceptionally, and for the time necessary for specific national routes or flights, which do not make stopovers in any other State when there are indications of a risk situation.
Who does it affect?
To airlines:
Self-employed persons and air transport companies with a valid operating licence or similar for air transport (airlines), with or without profit motive, or any official body with or without its own legal personality.
Aircraft operators when they are owners or lessees in the case of private flights.
To flight reservation managers when collecting PNR data.
How does it affect?
Duty to inform
Obligated entities shall inform the persons to whom the PNR data refer of the reason for their collection and of their recipient, the Passenger Information Unit.
The person responsible for protection to whom people should be directed is the data protection officer of the Passenger Information Unit (PIU).
Sending PNR data to the Passenger Information Unit (PIU)
Airlines will send PNR data to the IPU database.
In the case of private flights, it is the operator who is responsible for carrying out this task.
In the event that there are several airlines involved in the same flight, the obligation to transmit the data falls on the airline that acts as the operator of the flight.
Flight booking management entities shall enter into the PNR the data they have collected in the normal course of their activity.
What does it affect?
To the PNR (Passenger Name Record) data of persons travelling on oman phone number data international flights, both commercial and private.
Exceptionally, and for the time necessary for specific national routes or flights, which do not make stopovers in any other State when there are indications of a risk situation.
Who does it affect?
To airlines:
Self-employed persons and air transport companies with a valid operating licence or similar for air transport (airlines), with or without profit motive, or any official body with or without its own legal personality.
Aircraft operators when they are owners or lessees in the case of private flights.
To flight reservation managers when collecting PNR data.
How does it affect?
Duty to inform
Obligated entities shall inform the persons to whom the PNR data refer of the reason for their collection and of their recipient, the Passenger Information Unit.
The person responsible for protection to whom people should be directed is the data protection officer of the Passenger Information Unit (PIU).
Sending PNR data to the Passenger Information Unit (PIU)
Airlines will send PNR data to the IPU database.
In the case of private flights, it is the operator who is responsible for carrying out this task.
In the event that there are several airlines involved in the same flight, the obligation to transmit the data falls on the airline that acts as the operator of the flight.
Flight booking management entities shall enter into the PNR the data they have collected in the normal course of their activity.