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BY MARK ROWE
MANY air traffic control (ATC) organisations experience difficulties in attracting sufficient qualified staff. Indeed, the air transport industry does not seem to be as attractive an employer as it used to be. As a result, CANSO is examining selection and scaling methods, benchmarking qualification requirements, and evaluating common programmes for attracting new applicants.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PUBLIC Power Corporation (PPC) of Greece will be able to honour a long term contract with Aluminium of Greece to supply it with cheap electricity at a loss, even after the part-privatised generating company faces full competition in the European Union (EU) energy market under EU liberalisation directives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EMERGENCY response networks that have been built up across the European Union (EU) in the wake of the September 11 disaster are being tested next week in Brussels’ first ever civil protection exercise.

Euratox 2002 will simulate a terror attack involving radiological and chemical fall-out and be staged at a French military camp at Canjuers, Var, Côte-d’Azur.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE WORLD is a very long way from establishing a global system for air traffic management, but at least some of the building blocks are now being put into place. We know that neither global regulation nor global management of air traffic is a realistic concept unless preceded by a number of fundamental changes in the way the two are handled institutionally in many countries.…

Keith Nuthall
EUROPEAN Union agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler has resisted an attempt by the Greek government to bypass the European Commission in its bid to pay state aid to cotton producers. Greece asked a meeting of the EU Council of Ministers for agriculture to consider the matter as it has the power to authorise the payments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CONCEPT of nation building is not new. Powerful governments have for centuries sought to create pliant political administrations which would do their bidding, without being directly under their control. It is, after all, in noone’s interest for a territory to descent into chaos.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union’s drinks industry is one of the continent’s key earners according to a report from EU statistical agency Eurostat, which says its productivity is much higher than that of the food processing sector.

The top performing country in the latest pan-EU figures available (1999) in the drinks industry was France, at Euro 103,700 generated in terms of value added by the sector per person in employment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MANY European Union Member States fail to give writers and publishers the royalty rights that they are due under EU law through their national public lending rights rules, the European Commission is claiming. In a report that could lead it to take legal action at the European Court of Justice, Brussels says that France, Greece and Luxembourg fail to give right-holders any remuneration for books lent from public libraries; in Sweden royalties are only paid to national or resident authors; and in Denmark and Finland, payments are only made for books in the local national language.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE GREEK government is being taken to the European Court of Justice over its insistence that lorry drivers should pay registration taxes in Greece to use their vehicle temporarily in that country, even if it is registered in another EU Member State.…

Keith Nuthall
COMPANIES and sole traders that alter and mend household linen, clothing and shoes have been granted the option of having another year of reducing VAT on their services by the European Commission. Brussels has decided to extend an experimental scheme, which allows Belgium, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Britain to reduce VAT on specified labour-intensive services to boost jobs.…