At official Cabinet meetings, such as the Council of Ministers, ministers are no longer allowed to carry telephones and the like for security reasons. NOS recently reported on this.
Tablets, laptops, phones, smartwatches and earpods must now be stored in a special locker. This locker cabinet is located outside the meeting room. During the Rutte cabinets, phones and the like had to be handed in only when specific security topics came up.
"Spy threats are of all times and this was a perfectly natural measure," Schoof said. He added that it is also better to put phones away during important business meetings. Earlier, a source had told the AD that the change had to do with Schoof's past. Before this, he was director of the AIVD and the National Coordinator for Terrorism and Security, among others.
