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KEITH NUTHALL
A CONCILIATION committee will be formed to try and broker a deal between the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers over the contentious proposals for an extension of European working time legislation to the road haulage sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AVIATION tragedies in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, have led to the European Union developing a wide-range of air security regulations and policies, with ministers agreeing to fast-track their passage onto the EU statute book.

Meeting in Luxemburg, the Council of Ministers for transport granted political approval to a hastily drawn-up proposed regulation on aviation security.…

KEITH NUTHALL
IT is common knowledge that the European Union is becoming increasingly involved in public water policy, legislating to control the environmental quality of water supplies and watercourses. Brussels ambitions to improve water services do not, however, end at the external borders of the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has finally bit the bullet and launched the creation of the much-vaunted European Single Sky. Its detailed proposals reflect the wishes of national governments to continue handling air traffic control, but importantly, they involve the creation of a “European upper airspace,” where flight management would not be based upon national borders.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to approve an updated list of technology whose export should be tightly restricted because of concerns that in the wrong hands, they could be used to develop military and terrorist weapons. European Commission officials have been reviewing the EU’s list of so-called dual-use goods for more than a year and Brussels now formally proposed its new catalogue of controlled exports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HOLIDAYS and pregnancy leave are a serious business, both for the employees who take them and the employers who pay for them. Unfortunately for personnel departments who might want a little more flexibility over whether they should shell out or not, recent cases at the European Court of Justice have underlined the right of EU citizens to take paid leave, rather than erode them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government is to be taken to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission over its refusal to allow medical laboratories established in another Member State, to open a branch or agency in France.

Brussels is also asking judges to tell Paris to scrap regulations contained within its national law, (Decree No.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has thrown out proposals to weaken a planned directive limiting emissions from outdoors mobile equipment, by allowing manufacturers to produce machines with high emissions, if they also make greener engines at the same time.

MEP’s voted to scrap European Commission plans to introduce the so-called ‘averaging and banking’ system used in the USA, because it unfairly favours large manufacturers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CITIZENS of eastern European countries which have signed association agreements with Brussels, paving the way for their accession to the European Union, cannot be refused the right to live in a Member State, if they can become successfully self-employed, the European Court of Justice has ruled.…