European Commission 8 September 2020, COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE EVALUATION of Council Directive 2004/82/EC on the obligation of carriers to communicate passenger data (API Directive)

Background to the evaluation This evaluation assesses Directive 2004/82/EC (the ‘API Directive’) adopted in 2004 with a transposition deadline of 5 September 2006 and evaluated for the first time in 2012. Advance Passenger Information (API) is commonly understood as the information of an air passenger collected at check-in or at the time of online check-in.