{"id":302786,"date":"2025-07-30T02:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302786\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T02:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:39:10","slug":"scanner-confusion-as-eu-eases-rules-on-airport-checks-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302786\/","title":{"rendered":"Scanner confusion as EU eases rules on airport checks \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those scanners can&#8217;t be used again until the European Civil Aviation Conference, the intergovernmental organization responsible for harmonizing air transport safety rules in Europe, recertifies them and the Commission gives its final stamp of approval.<\/p>\n<p>The new EU approval applies to \u201c700 scanners that are located across 21 member states,\u201d Anna-Kaisa Itkonen, the Commission\u2019s transport spokesperson, <a href=\"https:\/\/audiovisual.ec.europa.eu\/en\/video\/I-275825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Tuesday<\/a>, adding that many are in \u201cmajor hubs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision concerns the first configuration of a certain type of scanners, and there are other types as well,\u201d Itkonen said, noting that each airport will be responsible for communicating which rules apply to their checks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will have to inform passengers fully whether they are using this latest technology or whether they&#8217;re not using it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt does not mean that now all passengers everywhere in the EU can take bigger containers of liquids with them.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s leading to very different security rules across the bloc, sometimes even in the same city or within the same hub.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers departing from Milan, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milanomalpensa-airport.com\/en\/assistance\/check-in-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are now allowed<\/a> to bring up to 2 L of liquids past security if they depart from Linate airport or Terminal 1 of Malpensa, while at Terminal 2 of Malpensa they still have to stick to the old 100 ml rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those scanners can&#8217;t be used again until the European Civil Aviation Conference, the intergovernmental organization responsible for harmonizing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[4328,10697,1306,2000,299,5187,1699,2199,5549,811,53,1263,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-302786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-airports","9":"tag-anna-kaisa-itkonen","10":"tag-aviation","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-italy","16":"tag-safety","17":"tag-security","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-transport","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114939872259405950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}