Commission proposal for a Regulation on aviation security: full-text (pdf). The Commission proposal is being considered by the Transport Committee in the European Parliament. Letter from Paolo Costa (Chair of the European Parliament's Transport Committee)
Commission proposal for a Regulation on aviation security: full-text (pdf). The Commission proposal is being considered by the Transport Committee in the European Parliament. Letter from Paolo Costa (Chair of the European Parliament’s Transport Committee) to the Commission (pdf) raises questions on the continuing liquids ban – has the Commission carried out the promised review? And on the introduction of “body scanners”.
See: EU to introduce ‘virtual strip searches’ at airports by 2010 – Digital body scanners which leave little to the imagination will be used by airport security on passengers travelling across the European Union within two years (Daily Telegraph, link)
See: ACLU Backgrounder on Body Scanners and “Virtual Strip Searches”
See: US newspapers and information on implementation:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2008-06-05-bodyscan_N.htm
http://www.tc2.com/what/bodyscan/index.html
http://www.slate.com/id/2160977/