Dignified and un-degraded treatment of passengers by security officials in European airports

I've just submitted my second petition to the European Parliament. The first was requesting policies to enforce a mandatory 10 year warranty on all domestic and personal electronic appliances (to ensure that the rate of obsolescence of devices stops increasing, and products are designed to last).

The text of my new petition is as follows:

The security regulations and practices in place in European airports, by which passengers are subject to (public) body searches, forced to remove vestiments, the private contents of their luggage exposed and examined, and subject to the prepotence of designated officials, violate at least two articles in the legally binding (by the Treaty of Lisbon) Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, namely:

• Chapter I, Article 1 - Human dignity is inviolable. It must be respected and protected.
• Chapter I, Article 4 - No one shall be subjected to (…) degrading treatment or punishment.

This is not acceptable, and I therefore petition the European Parliament to put in place and enforce policies that ensure the dignified and un-degraded treatment of passengers. Namely forbidding the following practices:

• Enforcing removal of vestiments
• Performing body searches unless in strict privacy by a police officer and only when the same conditions as apply to investigations of criminal offenses by suspects are verified.
• Publicly disclosing the contents of luggage.

The security of citizens is also a guaranteed right (under Chapter II, Article 6 of the same Charter), so airport authorities have to research and deploy less intrusive processes to ensure security for the specific case of air transportation.

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