THE PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ADVANCE PASSENGER INFORMATION SYSTEM (API / PNR) WITH THE AIM TO USE SUCH SYSTEM AS A COUNTERACTING CROSS-BORDER THREATS TOOL

The practical recommendations for the implementation of Advance Passenger Information System (API / PNR) were described in the article with the aim to use such system as a counteracting cross-border threats tool. The national approaches to the legal regulation of API / PNR data collection, storage and processing data on air passengers are analyzed. Since there is no complete system for processing Advance Passenger Information in Ukraine and currently it is possible only to check API information through national databases, tactical tasks for the system implementation in Ukraine have been identified based on a foreign experience review. It is argued that the implementation of such a systems will assist to ensure more effective and reliable protection of border security, in particular: helps to improve border control and increase the effectiveness of the fight against terrorism, organized crime, as well as facilitates to regulate migration; allows to reduce the workload of border control officers through the use of technology and automated means; improves people’s perception of security and facilitates more comfortable and smooth border crossing for law-abiding passengers; complements the procedures for checking documents and data (checking passports according to databases). The order of actions for system implementing is proposed. It is includes: development of needs and goals, determination of basic parameters of the national system, regulation of legal support for the functioning of the system (legal guarantees of personal data protection, legal base of data collection, exchange and processing), establishing of interagency cooperation mechanism.