Strasbourg, 09/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Bureau of the European Parliament decided in Strasbourg Wednesday evening to speed-up and broaden a series of measures, following the problems of security in public places raised by the attacks on 11 September in the United States, that it had been considering taking to rationalise the movement of visitors in its buildings (some 500,000 people a year…). Among these measures are: - the temporary suspension (with a few exceptions) of the possibility of citizens going to the Parliament spontaneously to follow the work of a committee; - the suspension of unguided visits of citizens on Saturdays; - review the list of people with a permanent access card (essentially, lobbyists); - the suspension of the holding on Parliament's premises, at the same time as the plenaries, of large gatherings; - appeal on MEPs to exercise a certain amount of self-discipline regarding the visitors they invite (they should not be more than nine per MEP per day, MEPs will have to ensure that their guests are accompanied, etc.); - establishment, as is already the case in Strasbourg, of a security perimeter around the Parliament's building in Brussels (President Nicole Fontaine discussed this issue in Strasbourg this week with Belgian Home Affairs Minister Antoine Duquesne). MEPs will also wear badges and have access to the buildings through security doors, contrary to all other people going to the Parliament.