Belgium ? The United States and the European Union failed to reach a new deal on sharing air passenger data by Saturday’s deadline, though officials said negotiations would continue.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the failure to agree wouldn’t disrupt trans-Atlantic air travel.

Reaching a new deal before a court-imposed deadline was an EU priority to ensure airlines could continue to legally submit 34 pieces of data about passengers flying from Europe to U.S. destinations. Such data – including passengers’ names, addresses and credit card details – must be transferred to U.S. authorities within 15 minutes of a flight’s departure for the United States.

The EU’s top court in May ruled that the deal put in place after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States was illegal because it was not using the right legal basis under EU law. It did not rule on the deal’s content.

An EU court allowed the data to keep flowing until Saturday to give officials time to negotiate a new deal.