In the thick of lots of other things I neglected to report that the European Court of Justice turned down the EU Parliament's request for a speedy review of the agreement between the EU and US on airline passenger data sharing. The decision was on procedural grounds - the Parliament essentially used the wrong forms and asked for the wrong things in the wrong way.

The Court's substantive review of the agreement will still go ahead but we're unlikely to get a decision now before the end of 2007, by which time we should have some empirical data on real impact of the agreement.