NEW EU CABIN BAGGAGE SCREENING RULES COME INTO FORCE
February 8th, 2015
THE EUROPEAN Commission has tightened rules for screening cabin baggage for explosives within European Union (EU) airports. Its new regulation 2015/187 noted this was because of "recent evidence…terrorists are trying to develop new concealments for improvised explosive devices designed to counter the existing aviation security measures...”Under the new rules, before screening, portable computers and other large electrical items must be removed from cabin baggage and screened separately, unless explosive detection systems (EDS) are of standard C2 or ...
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