Examples of SWIFT Agreement in a sentence
The Customer shall promptly provide the Bank with such information as it may reasonably request to assist the Bank in the performance of its obligations under any SWIFT Agreement.
This has been the case regarding the EU-US SWIFT Agreement (EP legislative resolution of 11 February 2010 [2010] OJ C 341 E/100), the renegotiation of PNR Agreements with Australia ([2012] OJ L 18/4), the United States ([2012] OJ L 174/1), and Canada (the conclusion of which the Court has recently found contrary to the Treaties: Opinion 1/15 EU:C:2016:656), and ACTA (EP legislative resolution of 4 July 2012 P7_TA (2012) 028).
See for example the video, SWIFT Agreement: Issues, Procedure and Reactions by europarltv.
EU-US Relations after the SWIFT Agreement (2012) (17) 2 European Foreign Affairs Review 71.
An LEA can be any number of federal law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI; US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS); US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), US Marshals Service, etc.
In case of the SWIFT Agreement, the US counterparts even appeared in the EP.
In November 2009 we cleared from scrutiny a draft Council Decision to authorise the signing, but not the conclusion, of an agreement, referred to as the SWIFT Agreement, between the EU and the US in order to allow transfer of SWIFT data to the US Treasury for the purposes of the TFTP.
The Opinion suggested that the earlier legal basis of the SWIFT Agreement was flawed.10 The Council refused accessed, on the basis that access would undermine the protection of legal advice intended only for the members of the Council discussing a proposed agreement and that its secrecy outweighed the public interest in disclosure.
Highly visible episodes such as the unprecedented rejection by the Parliament of an EU international agreement (the so-called SWIFT Agreement between the EU and the US) or the Parliament’s assertiveness during the negotiations on the creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS) have contributed to this change in perception.
If the evidence of the SWIFT Agreement is to be taken into account, the EU is signalling an intention to be a more active and perhaps critical interlocutor of the US.