AIR SAFETY
September 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLPOLITICAL agreement on the creation of a new European Aviation Safety Agency has been forged in Brussels, with the approval by both the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers that such a body should be set up. Although haggling is continuing over the extent of its powers and the shape of common European air safety rules that it will police, its establishment is now a foregone conclusion.This month, (September), MEP's approved the idea in principle, but extended the proposed legislation to include the setting up of a new independent ...
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