Traduction de «procureur général des états-unis » (Français → Anglais) :

B. whereas Commissioner Reding has sent a letter to the US Attorney General, Eric Holder, raising European concerns and asking for clarifications and explanations regarding the PRISM programme and other such programmes involving data collection and search and the laws under which use of such programmes may be authorised;

the statements by the UK Foreign Secretary on two US extraordinary rendition flights carrying two prisoners that landed on UK territory in 2002 and the compiling of a list of suspect flights that would be sent to US authorities to request specific assurances that they had not been used for rendition, as well as the statements by the Prime Minister in this regard; the referral by the UK Home Secretary to the Attorney General of the question of possible 'criminal wrongdoing' in relation to Binyam Mohamed's treatment and the impossibility of disclosing information relevant to this case owing to the alleged US threat to block any further ex ...[+++]change of intelligence,

– the statements by the UK Foreign Secretary on two US extraordinary rendition flights carrying two prisoners that landed on UK territory in 2002 and the compiling of a list of suspect flights that would be sent to US authorities to request specific assurances that they had not been used for rendition, as well as the statements by the Prime Minister in this regard; the request from the UK Home Secretary to the Attorney General to investigate possible 'criminal wrongdoing' by MI5 and the CIA in relation to Binyam Mohamed's treatment; the High Court ruling of 5 February 2009 that it was unable to order the disclosure of information about ...[+++] the alleged torture of Binyam Mohamed because the UK Foreign Secretary affirmed that the UK was threatened by the US with the blocking of intelligence-sharing about terrorism,

The US delegation explained that under Annex 3 to the Agreement, and in the absence of a city-pair contract awarded by the US General Services Administration, a US Government employee or other individual whose transportation is paid for by the US Government (other than an employee, military member, or other individual whose transportation is paid for by the US Department of Defence or military department) may book a flight, including on a Community airline, between the US and the European Community, or between any two points outside the United States, that, at the lowest cost to the Government, satisfies the traveller's needs.

The US delegation explained that these constraints do not preclude representatives advising the DOT decision-maker in an active proceeding from discussing with representatives of the Commission such matters as (1) the state of competition in any markets based upon non-confidential data; (2) the impact of existing alliances or other cooperative ventures and the results of previously imposed conditions or other limitations to address competition issues; (3) general approaches to competition analysis or methodology; (4) past cases, including records and decisions; (5) substantive law, policies, and procedures applicable to any cases; ( ...[+++]6) issues that might be raised by potential cases that have not been formally initiated, so long as DOT representatives do not ‘prejudge’ the facts or results of such cases; and (7) in active proceedings, what issues have already been raised by the parties and what non-confidential evidence has been provided for the record, again up to the point of potential ‘prejudgment’ of the facts and outcome.

This Working Group reports regularly to the Joint Committee, the Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection and the Director-General of DG Taxation and Customs Union of the Commission.