HUNGARY FACES LEGAL THREAT OVER GROUNDHANDLING ACCESS
November 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening Hungary with legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), arguing it is failing to provide fair access to groundhandling contracts at Budapest Airport. Brussels has said in a communiqué that the Hungarian government is breaching the EU groundhandling directive (96/67/EC) by unfairly limiting the number of potential groundhandling service providers at Budapest, and "failing to organise appropriate selection procedures". The Commission said Hungary had also broken rules on how to issue and ...
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