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PIRATE PROSECUTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Bureau has made a public appeal to the Indonesian government to prosecute pirates who were seized earlier this year, but who have yet to face charges in court. The IMB, which is part of the International Chamber of Commerce, is concerned that the pirates may be treated leniently.…
TENS PRIORITIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released its priority projects for investment under its ongoing trans-European networks programme; the list includes a range of projects designed to improve rail links, in a bid to encourage freight operators to abandon road transport.…
UN LAW OF THE SEA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations General Assembly will be asked to consider the plight of seafarers so poorly paid that they work in conditions amounting to “slavery,” when it considers relating to oceans and the Law of the Sea next month.…
EU SECURITY REGULATION
Keith Nuthall
TOP officials at the European Union’s Council of Ministers headquarters in Brussels will this month be studying the text of the European Commisson’s proposed regulation of aviation security that was drawn up in the wake of the terrorist tragedies in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.…
INSURANCE AID
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of the conditions that it will probably attach to applications by EU Member States to pay state aid to airlines to fund insurance cover, at a time when private companies have been withdrawing policies.…
AIR SECURITY LATEST
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers for transport was expected this month (Oct 15) to approve detailed proposals to beef up aviation security within the EU, as a response to the terrorist attacks on the USA and continuing concern about reprisals to the military action launched by the west.…
JAPAN DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has moved to impose 11.3 per cent definitive anti-dumping duties on imports from Japan of internal gear hubs for bicycles, notably those from Shimano Inc. The formal proposal for approval by EU ministers follows an earlier decision to erect provisional anti-dumping duties.…
BIOFUEL
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission will shortly propose legislation significantly expanding the use of bio-fuel by introducing “compulsory market shares for bio-ethanol and bio-diesel in the transport sector,” the European agriculture Commissioner, Franz Fischler, said this week.
Commission officials told Commercial Motor that legislation would ensure that by 2005 at least two per cent of transport fuel throughout the EU came from bio-fuel, (produced from sugar beet, cereals, maize and rapeseed oil), rising gradually to 20 per cent by 2020.…
LIVE TRANSPORTS
KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH hauliers may not in future find themselves at such a competitive disadvantage with eastern European competitors regarding the commercial transport of animals, because of a planned updating to a Council of Europe welfare convention.
Its commitments apply to countries both outside and within the European Union, where hauliers already have to comply with expensive rules on trailer standards, journey times, rest periods and the watering and feeding of livestock.…
EU SOCIAL PACKAGE
KEITH NUTHALL
THE LONG struggle to agree EU rules on working time is set to be extended well into next year and maybe beyond, with the European Commission proposing the replacement of the existing planned directive, even before it has been agreed by a conciliation committee representing Member States and the European Parliament.…