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KEITH NUTHALL
HEADS of government of the European Union have met at an emergency summit in the wake of the terrorist disasters in the USA and have agreed to fast track proposals to boost airline security for agreement by the Council of Ministers for transport in October.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IMPORTANT reforms in air safety have been approved by the European Parliament in its first reading of legislation to create a new European Aviation Safety Agency. In particular MEP’s want to set up a new independent authority, on the lines of the US National Transportation Safety Board and separate from the EASA, to investigate aircraft accidents and make recommendations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ARGENTINA has until February 28 next year to implement a World Trade Organisation ruling that it should dismantle tanning industry controls on the export of raw and semi-tanned bovine hides, an WTO arbitrator has ruled.

The European Union – which brought the case in the first place – had called for arbitration after failing to reach agreement with Buenos Aires over the matter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEP’s are sticking to their guns in a political battle with European Union ministers over whether there should be EU legislation laying down noise limits or particular forms of transport operations across the continent. The parliament’s environment committee is resisting a decision by the European Union Council of Ministers to reject amendments that would have strengthened a planned noise directive, making it include commitments to set specific and binding EU noise limits for road vehicles, trains, rail tracks and aircraft.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINLAND is the world’s most technologically advanced country, according to a United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), report, which puts the UK at number seven in its league table, also behind the USA, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is considering new legislation that would make it compulsory for transport contracts to include clauses allowing hauliers to adjust their fees, if they are hit by sudden rises in the price of fuel. EU transport Commissioner Loyola de Palacio said that she was considering the idea as a priority response to the Commission’s recent transport White Paper.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
EUROPEAN Union hauliers have been encouraged to install a ground breaking wind power system for lorries, where two and three units of compact propellers and generators are fitted on the cab roof. The resulting electricity powers the air conditioning, saving fuel.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is being threatened with massive fines because of its alleged failure to abide by an European Court of Justice ruling that it should set up redress procedures provided for in European Union public procurement legislation. This allows suppliers, who feel they have been unfairly excluded from a public procurement tender in the water, energy and telecommunications sectors, to make formal complaints and launch appeals.…

Alan Osborne
THE INTRODUCTION of e-commerce into the European Union, already disappointingly slow, is further threatened by the failure so far of the 15 member countries to adopt the European Electronic Signature Directive, delegates to the Information Security Solutions Europe 2001 conference at the QE2 centre in London have been told.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union’s financial watchdog the Court of Auditors has criticised three controls operated by the European Commission and EU Member States, which are supposed to prevent fraud and mismanagement frittering away Brussels’ budgets.

It has strongly criticised checks to ensure that agricultural products that attract EU export refunds are actually released onto non-EU markets.…