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"Mr President, you are going to hear more about whisky – but the one without the ‘e’, the Scottish variety!
I have been slightly surprised at the ferocity of the attacks by some of my colleagues on this system. It is clear that there is a serious and more subtle threat to airport security than we have ever faced and that the screening of hand baggage needs to be made as easy as possible. As the Commissioner rightly said, liquid explosives can be disguised as very innocuous substances, and a patchwork of 27 separate regulations would have been unacceptable. I therefore support the initiative he took in introducing these measures but, as he rightly says, these measures can be improved and need to be examined in the light of experience.
I would like to follow on from what Mr Ó Neachtain and Mrs Doyle have said about duty free in transit from third countries. Many Scots have returned to the UK via Frankfurt Airport, Schiphol Airport and other airports and had the duty free they had bought as presents confiscated at the airport. That is unacceptable. As has been said, it has had a serious impact on the sale of duty free – 12% in EU duty free shops, 40% in some of the third-country duty free shops. Scottish whisky uses duty free as a shop window for its sales and does so very successfully. This process has hurt EU companies and it is undermining the confidence of consumers in duty free.
I would like to suggest a very simple solution, as did Mrs Doyle, i.e. that we try and encourage third countries to adopt the tamper-evident bags that we use for duty free inside the European Union. I would argue that this does not undermine European Union security and, indeed, can enhance it if we encourage our third-country partners to improve their security at airports by adopting this system. If we have mutual recognition this will ease flows within airports and prevent a lot of the personal grief that is created around this issue. I hope the Commission will look seriously at this and consider entering into immediate bilateral agreements with suitable third countries such as the US, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and others."@en1
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