  We examine the effect of suppressing the emission of gluons which are close
by in rapidity in the BFKL framework. We show that, after removing the
unphysical collinear logarithms which typically arise in formally higher orders
of the perturbative expansion, the effect of the rapidity veto is greatly
reduced. This is an important result, since it supports the use of multi-Regge
and quasi-multi-Regge kinematics which are implemented in the leading and
next-to-leading order BFKL formalism.
