On 14 April 2025, the Council of the European Union concluded, on behalf of the Union, the Agreement between Canada and the European Union on the transfer and processing of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data. The European Parliament gave its consent to the deal on 12 March 2025. As a result, the EU formally completed its internal procedures for the ratification of the Agreement. In order to become binding for both parties, the Agreement still needs to be ratified by Canada.

The Agreement provides for the transfer of passenger name record data from the EU to Canada for the purposes of preventing, detecting, investigating and prosecuting serious crime and terrorism. It was signed in October 2024 (→ eucrim 3/2024, 191). Negotiations for a new EU-Canada PNR deal became necessary after the CJEU had found in 2017 that a previous agreement on PNR transfers to Canada was incompatible with fundamental rights protection in the EU (→ eucrim 3/2017, 114-115).