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BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL financial assistance is required in the eastern European shipbuilding and repair industries, if they are to withstand increased competition following the planned entry of their countries to the European Union, a report ordered by the European Commission has concluded.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers for the environment has given political agreement to the creation of official guidelines for Member States on Integrated Coastal Zone Management. It means that EU governments will have to develop strategies coordinating national, regional and local regulations and initiatives fighting the pollution of coasts, covering beaches and cliffs as well as the sea.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN a surprise judgement, the European Court of Justice has blocked European Union retailers from re-importing textile products from eastern European countries or other non-EU countries, without permission from trademark holders.

By doing so, the ECJ ignored one of its advocate generals, who had advised that manufacturers should not block such parallel imports; this was unusual, as judges normally back such preliminary judgements.…

BY JOHNATHAN THOMSON
DESPITE the general fears about air travel sparked by the World Trade Centre disaster, commercial aviation is not only incredibly safe, but is getting safer each decade despite the considerable rise in global traffic. Tens of thousands of passenger aircraft take to the skies every day across the world, yet during the 1990’s there were only 483 fatal air accidents globally.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
PERHAPS the greatest dilemma facing air transport in the new millennium is the need to balance the demand for airspace from passenger and cargo carriers, with the expectation of ever-improving safety in our skies.

Through its Safety Regulation Commission (SRC), Eurocontrol coordinates efforts to achieve consistent high levels of safety in air traffic management within the European Civil Aviation Conference, (ECAC), area.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AIR traffic management in Europe is related to a number of accepted truths, of which two stand out as self-evident. First: economic growth means rising demand for air travel, especially at a time when the European Union is both increasing its size and developing its internal market, and, conversely, constraints on air travel mean constraints on economic growth.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOOKING ahead, the work programme of the European Civil Aviation Conference, (ECAC), for 2001 to 2003, seems to have been prepared with a degree of foresight.

Taking account of its general aim of promoting the safe and orderly development of civil aviation on routes to, from and within Europe, its director generals, (representing its member countries), have agreed a comprehensive set of projects focused on security.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
HANDLING the needs and issues surrounding the 550 million passengers and billions of tonnes of cargo moving through the airports and terminals of the 38 European Civil Aviation Conference countries is a task of immense scope.

No wonder then that ECAC’s Working Group on Facilitation, (FAL), is comprised of a multi-disciplined team of delegates and observers from areas including customs, immigration, security, public health, drug control as well as of course, air transport users and civil aviation representatives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to approve the transfer of Euro 60 million from the general EU 2001 budget, (most of which is currently earmarked for fishery support), to help finance the UN’s Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to approve the transfer of Euro 60 million from the general EU 2001 budget, (most of which is currently earmarked for fishery support), to help finance the UN’s Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries.…