Commission Regulation (EC) No 23/2008 of 11 January 2008 amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 622/2003 laying down measures for the implementation of the common basic standards on aviation security (Text with EEA relevance )
Date: 2008-01-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: air safety, approximation of laws, civil aviation, picture synthesis, piracy, technical specification, transport safety

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 23/2008

of 11 January 2008

amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 622/2003 laying down measures for the implementation
of the common basic standards on aviation security

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002 of
the
European Parliament and the Council of 16 December 2002
establishing common rules
in the field of civil aviation
security (1) and in particular Article 4(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The Commission is required, by virtue of Regulation (EC)
No 2320/2002, to adopt measures for the implemen-
tation of common basic standards for aviation security
throughout the Community. Commission Regulation (EC)
No 622/2003 of 4 April 2003 laying down measures for
the implementation of the common basic standards on
aviation security (2) was the first act laying down such
measures.

regards Threat

There is a need for measures to make the common basic
standards more precise. As
Image
Projection (TIP) performance requirements should be
laid down.
It should be considered to review these
requirements on a regular basis and at least every 2
years to ensure that they continue to reflect technical
developments,
in particular as regards the size of the
library of virtual images available.

TIP should be used to enhance the performance of
screeners, examining both cabin bags and hold bags, by
means of projecting virtual images of threat articles into
an x-ray image of a bag. There should be a minimum
threat
and maximum percentage of virtual

images of

articles to be projected into the images of bags. By
screeners responding to images of bags, TIP should
inform them if they have responded correctly in iden-
the
tifying
article.
of
virtual
Furthermore, the library of virtual
images used for TIP
should be enlarged and refreshed on a regular basis, in
order to take into account new threat articles and to
avoid familiarity with the virtual images.

image

threat

the

(4)

(5)

(6)

the performance requirements of
Information about
including TIP, at airports should
security equipment,
not be placed in the public domain as it could potentially
be misused to circumvent security controls. The infor-
mation should only be made available to regulators and
equipment manufacturers.

Regulation (EC) No 622/2003 should be amended
accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Civil
Aviation Security,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 622/2003 is amended as set
out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 3 of that Regulation shall apply as regards the confi-
dential nature of this Annex.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February 2008.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 11 January 2008.

For the Commission

Jacques BARROT
Vice-President

(1) OJ L 355, 30.12.2002, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 849/2004 (OJ L 229, 29.6.2004, p. 3).

(2) OJ L 89, 5.4.2003, p. 9. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1477/2007 (OJ L 329, 14.12.2007, p. 22).

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In accordance with Article 1 the Annex is secret and shall not be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

ANNEX