The European commission plan to be published on Wednesday would require 42 separate pieces of information on every passenger flying in and out of Europe, including their bank card details, home address and meal preferences such as halal, to be stored on a central database for up to five years for access by the police and security services.

Changing the scope from "terrorism and serious crime" to "terrorism and serious transnational crime";

Reference to all the offences covered by the European Arrest Warrant is replaced by "a shorter list of offences that a relevant to transnational travel";

Reducing the retention period of the "full PNR" from 30 days to seven days, and changing the longer "depersonalised" retention period to four years in relation to "serious transnational crime" (it remains five years for terrorism);

"establishing stricter conditions for access to PNR data" including "the appointment of a Data Protection Officer within the national units responsible for the processing of PNR data";

"explicitly spelling out the rights of passengers to have access to their PNR data (retained by the PIU) and to request the modification or erasure of their data";

"The commission plans are an affront to the critics of the European parliament and the European court of justice who have said that data retention without any link to a certain risk or suspicion isn't proportionate.

"It is an open breach of fundamental rights to blanketly retain all passenger data," he added.

The proposed compromise takes due account of the judgment of the Court of 8 April 2014 on the Data Retention Directive, as far as the judgment appears applicable to PNR.

In case the Commission would adopt its revised proposal without an accompanying Impact Assessment, the [European Parliament] or in any case some political groups would likely express their criticism, given the important implications derived on PNR from the [EU Court of Justice] ruling on [Data Retention Directive].