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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10168
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport

Member States want EU rules on airport security body-scanners

Brussels, 25/06/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 24 June, the EU Council of Ministers gave the go-ahead to the European Commission to prepare harmonised rules for the use of body-scanners in European airports. The Commission's uniform rules would cover technical areas (detection standards), legal issues (protecting privacy and data storage matters) and healthcare (type of rays used). Quizzed about the matter as he left the Transport Council, EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas, who had...

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