EU to consider extending liquids ban

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Gavin Lipsith

17-Aug-2006

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Aviation experts will discuss the possibility of extending the ban across all EU airports at a meeting early next month

A panel of aviation experts will meet next month to debate whether or not to extend the ban on passengers taking liquids on board planes across all 25 EU member states, according to a European Commission spokesperson quoted by Reueters news agency. The announcement followed a meeting of six European interior ministers addressing enhanced security cooperation following the foiled terror plot in the UK last week.

After the meeting in London, European justice commissioner Franco Frattini said that the EU would look to harmonise security restrictions across the region. But his spokesman added later that while the liquids ban which has caused chaos at duty-free stores for the past week would be discussed, no decision on whether to extend the ban had yet been taken.

"The commissioner did not say anything definite about extending the ban on liquids," he said. "This issue will be dealt with by EU aviation experts at a meeting in early September, where the impact of the measures introduced last week will be assessed. Until then, there will be no decision."

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