Passenger Name Record Directive

The Cyprus Parliament has, on November 30th, 2018, approved the law which transposes the provisions of the Passenger Name Record (PNR) Directive of the EU (2016/681) into the national legislation.

In short, the provisions of the PRN Directive require air carriers to transfer to Member States the passenger name record they have collected in the normal course of their business. PRN also includes all data which is information provided by passengers and collected by air carriers for enabling reservations and carrying out the check-in process. More specifically, it is a record of each passenger's travel requirements held in carriers' reservation and departure control systems. It may contain a wide range of information, such as dates of travel, travel itinerary, ticket information, contact details, travel agent, means of payment, seat number and baggage information.