No thanks to the security numpties I have unearthed the following new BS:
In accordance with the new European Regulation a Security Search must be conducted:
• if the aircraft arrives into a Critical Part of an EU Airport from a country outside the EU .
= the aircraft must undergo a security search. Nothing said about the pax; so I expect over-zealous security departments make their own interpretation of what additional inconvenience the pax must endure!