We examine the potential of the COMPASS experiment at CERN to study color
transparency via exclusive vector meson production in hard muon-nucleus
scattering. It is demonstrated that COMPASS has high sensitivity to test this
important prediction of perturbative QCD.Comment: Expanded version of the talk presented at the Workshop on "Nucleon
Structure and Meson Spectroscopy", Dubna, Russia, 10-11 October 200
