Activities of Sabine WILS related to 2010/2154(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on aviation security, with a special focus on security scanners PDF (257 KB) DOC (177 KB)
Amendments (36)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the use of security scanners represents a severe intrusion into passenger privacy that violates the personal rights and dignity of passengers; whereas this technology reveals information which is subject to medical confidentiality,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas security scanners only scan the surface of the body and do not reveal objects hidden between body folds or inside the body,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas a number of Member States are currently using security scanners on a temporary basis - for a maximum of 30 months - at their airports, thereby exercising their right to conduct trials with new technologiesnew technologies aiming to assess in an experimental and temporary basis new methodologies concerning security scanners at their airports, thereby exercising these trials under a European Commission supervision, who has to be informed in advance and can authorise the Member States wishing to use new methodologies for a maximum period of 18 months, possibly extended to 12 additional months if adequate justification is provided by the concerned Member State (Chapter 12.8 of the annex to Commission Regulation (EU) No 185/2010),
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas air travel security measures are also used in other places such as stations, museums or public libraries; whereas people would face more of the inconveniences and dangers of security scanners in their daily lives, if these were to be introduced for air travel;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that the use of body scanners represents a severe intrusion into passenger privacy; states that this technology reveals information which is subject to medical confidentiality;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Notes that the protection of personal data cannot be guaranteed at all times or in all respects;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas Member States are entitled to apply more stringent measures than the common basic standards required by European legislation and may thus introduce security scanners on their territory; whereas, in this case, they must act on the basis of a risk assessment and in compliance with EU law; whereas these measures must be relevant, objective, non- discriminatory and proportional to the risk that is being addressed (Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 300/2008),
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the eventual introduction of security scanners on a voluntary and experimental basis by the Member States in either of the above two cases makes genuine one- stop security impossible; whereas if the present situation continues the operating conditions that apply to the Member States will not be uniform and will therefore not benefit passengers,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas health represents an asset to be preserved and exposure to ionising radiation from certain types of scanners, such as thosesecurity scanners needs to be analysed; whereas scanners emitting X- rays with cumulative effects, needs to be analysed; whereasand thius representsing a risk that should be avoided, should therefore be rejected,
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas 100% aviation security cannot be guaranteed,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas preference should be given when using security scanners to systems that only produce images in the style of stick figures or mannequins,
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Proposes, as the most suionly acceptable solution, active millimetre wave imaging systems using non-ionising radiation, which is not considered harmful if exposure remains below the limit values laid down in existing legislation in order to prevent possible harm to health, passive millimetre wave imaging systems using no radiation at all;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas concerns over the rights to privacy, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, non-discrimination and data protection cannot be duly guaranteed where security scanners are used properly,
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that the technology based on backscatter x-ray scanning emits a low dose of X-rays. Clearly, any exposure to ionising radiation, however low, may have long-term effects on health due to the cumulative effect of radiation. It is tTherefore proposed that we avoid this technology, or at least ensure that all exposures are as low as possible for workers and passengersrejects the use of this technology;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S a (new)
Recital S a (new)
Sa. whereas good working conditions and secure standard employment contracts have a positive effect on the quality of security checks; whereas most airport operators in the EU get outside companies to carry out security checks in order to save on wage costs,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Takes the view that the protection of personal data cannot be guaranteed at all times and in all respects;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that airport operators only employ their own staff on secure standard employment contracts to conduct security checks, so that no outside companies may be used for this key sector of air safety;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to propose addingnot to include security scanners toin the list of authorised screening methods, together with appropriate rules for their use, as set out in this resolution;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that the eventual decision on the use of security scanners must be based on common rules that not only lay down detection performance but also impose the necessary safeguards to protect the health and fundamental rights of passengers and workers;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Proposes, more specifically, that the Commission should revise the rules on the use of security scanners to ensure that the provisions on the protection of health, privacy, personal data and fundamental rights are adapted to technological progress;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Believes that the escalating terrorist threat means that public authorities must take the protective and preventive measures demanded by democratic societies;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Takes the view that, even though 100% aviation security cannot be guaranteed, and the detection performance of security scanners is higher thansimilar to that offered by current metal detectors, particularly with regard to non- metallic objects and liquids, whilst frisking (full hand-search) causes more irritation and is more likely to be rejected than a scanner;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Takes the view that the eventual use of security scanners does not negatively affect the overall level of security being attained as stated in annex 12.8.1 (b) of Regulation 185/2010, thus not goingo beyond what is necessary to achieve theis objective of a high level of security, provided that the appropriate safeguards are guaranteed and taking into account that less demanding methods would not provide a similar degree of protection;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Takes the view that concerns and demands regarding privacy and health cannot be resolved with the technology and methods available; considers that the technology now being developed is promising and that the best available technology should be ussimilarly flawed;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Takes the view that the installation of security scanners, or the decision not to install them, falls within the responsibility and freedom of decision of the EU Member States, taking into account the Regulation 185/2010 provisions concerning the European Commission right of assessment and authorisation of introducing new technologies as stated in annex 12.8;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Takes the view that passengers should be given a choice in using security scanners whereby, if they refuse, they would be obliged to submit to alternative screening methods that guarantee security to at least the same levels of effectiveness as security scanners;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Takes the view that exposure to doses of ionising radiation above the recommended annual limits, taking into account that no minimum safe threshold of human exposure to doses of ionising radiation is set by the WHO, new technologies using ionising radiation cannot be acceptable; believes, therefore, that X-ray transmission imaging should not be used in systematic security screening;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Points out that the technology based on backscatter x-ray scanning emits a low dose of X-rays; notes that clearly any exposure to ionising radiation, however low, may have long-term effects on health due to the cumulative effect of radiation; rejects therefore the use of this technology;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Proposes, as the only acceptable solution in order to prevent possible harm to health, passive millimetre wave imaging systems using no radiation at all;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Believes that such protection can be bestter achieved when a standard partial figure is used, and that the use of body images should be permitted only with the appropriate guarantees and on anis banned without exceptional basis;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Stresses that images should not be stored for longer than is necessary to ensure aviation security, that they should be destroyed once they are no longer necessary for the intended purposes, and that theyand should not be used for purposes other than to detect prohibited objects;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission, in conjunction with the Member States, to draw up a code of conduct on the use of security scanners which requires airports to only carry out scanning in such a way as to respect passengers’ fundamental rights, privacy, intimacy and data protection;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure providing adequate information to all users on the eventual introduction of new technologies concerning security scanner by the same large dissemination measures as applied to the Chart of Passenger rights if a decision is undertaken;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Urges the Member States, in coordination with airports, to carry out an appropriate information campaign on passengers' rights as the one carried on the information on the Chart of Passenger Rights; calls on the Commission to cooperate as far as possible in this information work;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Asks the Commission to ensure that the security programme takes account of the specific characteristics of all the players affected and reconciles security measures relating to the exchange of mail and cargo with the need to ensure a dynamic economy that continues to encourage trade, service quality and the development of e-commerce;