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EU Lawmakers Hope to Repeal Ban on Liquids

The ban on liquids on airlines is annoying, tiresome and -- apparently -- useless. Armed with new data and mountains of complaints, EU parliamentarians are now trying to scrap the liquid checks.
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"Throw away my vodka?" The Moscow native was not about to let security officials at the Munich Airport confiscate his booze. So he opened it up -- and drank it. The whole bottle. Right there. Based on European Union Regulation 1546/2006, at least, which restricts the amounts and types of liquids passengers can take on board airlines, the man was then legally allowed to fly. But the vodka enthusiast never made it to the plane after making the mistake of throwing his precious cargo back up at the nearest Lufthansa counter.

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The official handbook on checking passengers and their luggage is 180-pages long. Applying the rules included in this tome in a meticulous way has paralyzed and plagued airports across Europe. Security officials currently use conventional X-ray devices to examine passenger luggage, but this technology cannot tell the difference between holy water and nitroglycerin. Now the European Commission in Brussels wants to appoint a panel of experts to study the potential use of high-tech equipment that can detect the danger-level of liquids by measuring their specific densities. By 2010, EU Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani wants to phase out all liquid checks.