EU and US hold high-level meeting on border and transport security

The third EU-US meeting of the Policy Dialogue on Border and Transport Security is taking place today in Brussels. Border and transport security are among the issues for discussion, together with preparation of the EU-US Summit to be held in Washington on 20th June. These are matters which have a direct impact on European and US businesses: for companies which export goods; for the shipping and logistics companies being required to implement complex and challenging container security measures; for the airlines faced with new requirements to screen passengers against no-fly lists.

The EU will be represented at the meeting by senior officials from the European Commission, including Director General for Freedom, Security and Justice, Jonathan Faull and the Director General for Taxation and Customs Union, Robert Verrue , the Luxembourg Council Presidency and Gijs de Vries, EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator.

The US delegation will be led by Acting Undersecretary in the US Department of Homeland Security, Randy Beardsworth, accompanied by senior officials from the Departments of State and Justice.

The new Homeland Security Secretary, Mr Michael Chertoff, will hold talks with Commission Vice-President Frattini and Commissioner Kovács in Brussels later in May.

•Date: 19th May 2005 • Region: Various • Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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