EU GROUNDHANDLING REVIEW
June 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNCHANGES to the European Union's key groundhandling directive (EC/96/67) now look at least a year away because unexpectedly lengthy consultations have run up against next year's elections in the European Parliament. The European Commission is now expected to submit proposals in the autumn, after a summer of reflection, but this will be too late for the EP to hold more than a first reading before the assembly is dissolved for the elections next spring.That said, recent written submissions to the Commission have produced "no surprises," a Brussels ...
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