Hello!
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His dudeness
To the best of my knowledge its not an European rule.
As far as I know the basis for aerodrome and aviation security is ICAO Annex 17, so rather a worldwide than a European thing. Of course EASA will have something to say as well as do national legislators. But they only provide something like "acceptable means of compliance" which every aerodrome operator and every (commercial) aircraft operator has to transform into his own rules. Which is why everybody seems to be doing it differently. And next year differently again...
But there is definitely no "European" rule by which aircraft over 10.000kg require mandatory passenger screening. I fly a lot from aerodromes which have no passenger screening capabilty all over Europe and I see a lot of over 10ton aircraft using these aerodromes as well.
Regards
Max