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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MEETING of gas industry representatives, regulators and consumers from across the European Union has agreed good practice guidelines for third party access to the EU’s gas transmission network, a move that the European Commission has hailed as “significant progress in creating a single internal market for gas.”…

KEITH NUTHALL
A STRING of cases have been launched by the European Commission against Member States of the European Union to try and force them to comply with EU water legislation; under existing rules, failure to abide by the court’s rulings can see national governments being hit with huge daily recurring fines of up to Euro 100,000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Council secretariat officials have told Lloyds List that the March 25th and 26th transport and telecommunications Council of Ministers will try to reach political agreement on the establishment of a single EU committee on safe seas and on the prevention of pollution by ships, which would replace a number of committees covering these policy areas.…

Keith Nuthall
EXPERTS at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) are discussing a proposal to set up a non-profit company that would offer airports, ground handlers and airlines third-party war risk liability insurance cover from US$50 million per insured, should the commercial market withdraw such protection.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A NEW sales tax-sharing bill to try and curb the inequities of urban sprawl that has passed in the California Senate has angered several national retailers, who fear that they will face additional tax burdens as a result.…

BY PHILIP FINE

CRIMINAL charges have been laid against 24 former workers at Boston’s Logan International Airport for allegedly falsifying documents that got them their jobs and allowed them access to secure areas. The employees worked for private companies providing security, food and other services.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE JACKSONVILLE Airport Authority will soon start construction on a new US$7 million headquarters. The three-story 68,000-square-foot facility must be completed by December because authority offices at Jacksonville International Airport, Florida, are being taken over by new baggage screening equipment that the government wants in place by the end of the year.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has lent Euro 190 million to Danish electricity supplier and distributor Eltra, money that will be especially targeted on boosting renewable energy production and consumption in this environment-friendly country.

Eltra is a non-profit co-operative society wholly owned by 47 municipal and consumer-owned electricity distribution companies in Denmark.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIALISTS will reconvene in Vienna from June 17-28 to finish considering the United Nations’ draft Convention against Corruption. The first session of the committee charged with the work agreed the treaty should be “flexible and balanced, taking into account the legal, social, cultural, economic and political differences of countries, (and) different levels of development,” balancing preventive and law enforcement measures and boosting international cooperation.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank has approved a US$5.6 million credit to fund a Pilot Fishery Development Project, to boost the development of fish farming in Albania, one of Europe’s poorest countries. The scheme also aims at improving the country’s wild fishery sector.…