I am sure that we all have anecdotes about the problem that generates us to climb to an plane with insulin ... I have a couple that are for note, come on ... I have felt identified with this young man ...
the young man, who suffers cystic fibrosis and diabetes, must take more than 40 pills and medicinal fluids
AGENCIES / ELPAIS.com - BRUSLAS / BARCELONA - 05/27/2008
The young Catalan David Raya, who suffers cystic fibrosis and diabetes, has presented today before the Eurocamara request for requests a complaint against the rule that limits the amount of liquids that can be carried in the luggage of the hands of the airplanes.As explained, this regulation causes constant problems to transport the medications it needs to be treated because it is not public and applies arbitrarily.Therefore, he has claimed to be supposed or modified.
The European Commission has lamented the difficulties with Raya, has announced that this legislation will soon be published, and stressed that it can only be suppressed when machines are developed that can detect in the airport controls explosive liquids in the luggagehand.
In his appearance before the request for requests, Raya explained that for his diseases he must take more than 40 pills and other liquid medications.The day after the entry into force of fluid restrictions, on November 7, 2006, he had to take a Berlin plane to Barcelona.And, when these medications have with it, at the Berlin airport they applied "very exhaustive" and "very humiliating" controls, as recorded in their complaint.
"My medications have become a weapon of mass destruction"
"My insulins, my antibiotics, my aerosols and my machine to vaporize the medication had become weapons of mass destruction from night and I in an alleged jihadist with a master's degree in chemistry to be able to mix all my medications and create aExplosive, "said the Eurodiputados.He has said that, due to his diabetic condition, he always carries with him a can of Coca-Cola to recover blood sugar levels."In some airports, Coca-Cola has been able to climb with me and in others it has been declared dangerous and suspicious," he said.In addition, every time you take a plane, you must show the police and security guards a medical history that "is confidential or should be."
The representative of the commission, Marion Knoben, explained that the regulation contemplates exceptions for medicines, which cover "both medicines in the strict sense and other liquids, including alcohol without alcohol, when used for medical purposes."The Community Executive official has assured that Brussels plans to publish all the annexes of the standard on fluid restrictions that are still secrets to achieve greater transparency.
A "dark" rule
The United Left Representative, Willy Meyer, said that it is a "obscurantist" norm and recalled that the general lawyer of the Luxembourg Court has asked to declare "inexistent."In this sense, he said that the announcement of the commission will publish its content shows that the battle of David Raya "will not fall into a broken sack."In the same vein, the representative of the Greens, David Hammerstein, was expressed for whom the rule on liquids creates "Kafkian situations.""They are dark and secret rules and thus a rule of law cannot work," he lamented.
More information:
- Resolution of the European Parliament, of September 2007, in which the commission is required to make public the Security Regulations in theAirports (paragraph 8):
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- Security regulations (description):
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