Article 6
Storage period and deletion of API data
Air carriers shall store, for a period of 48 hours from the moment of receipt by the router of the API data transferred to it in accordance with Article 5(3), point (a)(ii) and point (b), the API data relating to all passengers and crew that they collected pursuant to Article 4. They shall immediately and permanently delete such API data after the expiry of that period, without prejudice to the possibility for air carriers to retain and use the data where necessary for the normal course of their business in compliance with applicable law, and to Article 16(1) and (3).