 The "Agreement between the European Union and the United States of America on the processing and transfer of Financial Messaging Data from the European Union to the United States for the purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program" was negotiated during 2009.The treaty was first rejected by the European parliament, however after a few months and a visit by U.S. Vice president Joe Biden to the parliament, the European Commission introduced a proposal with strengthened safeguards, which was then adopted.The scope of the treaty is to use financial payment messaging data to prevent, investigate, detect, and prosecute conduct pertaining to terrorism or terrorist financing.