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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9787

21 November 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 28
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport
European Commission withdraws its proposal on body scanners but hopes to review their possible use

Brussels, 20/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - Under pressure from MEPs, the European Commission has decided to withdraw its proposals for a regulation on air safety that would have brought in the use of body scanners for security checks in European airports (see EUROPE 9770 and 9769). The new proposal will soon be made, this time without reference to the scanners, which should mean that it will be possible to prevent the whole of the regulation being blocked by the European Parliament, which has...

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