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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that it will review the European Cosmetics Directive, with a view to making it simpler to understand and operate. Officials are to identify provisions that are “burdensome and costly for users,” which can be scrapped without compromising the overall objectives of the law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is seeking legal authority to undermine the series of bilateral ‘open skies’ agreements struck between individual EU Member States, and the USA.

These deals allow airlines from both sides the right to fly to each others’ territory and on to another country, but not to undertake onward domestic flights to a neighbouring terminal.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Shippers Council has welcomed a decision by the European Commission to issue a statement of objections to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) over its cargo tariff consultations. The Commission says that the IATA consultations restrict competition “and are no longer indispensable to provide customers with efficient interlining services within the EEA.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s long running bid at the European Court of Justice to undermine the series of bilateral ‘open skies’ agreements struck between individual EU Member States, and the USA has taken a further step forward, with the opening of oral proceedings.…

BY KATE REW
ONE of the catalysts, which sparked the drafting of the American Constitution, was a long-running and sometimes bloody dispute between the states of Maryland and Virginia, over the use and control of the Potomac River. Although the battle is no longer bloody, wrangling continues between the two US states, with the Maryland State Court this month came down in favour of Virginia over the proposed construction of a 725 foot water pipeline in to the river, which

Maryland objected to on environmental grounds.…

Keith Nuthall
DEVELOPING countries that export textiles and clothing, have rejectred calls by their rich trading partners, that they should open their domestic markets in return for further import concessions being offered by developed countries.

Meeting in Guatemala, the International Textiles and Clothing Bureau’s Council of Representatives “categorically rejected” bids by the European Union and the United States “to demand additional market access concessions from developing countries as a condition to fully comply with their obligations under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing of the World Trade Organization.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation are to examine in detail proposals made by the EU, USA, Venezuela and Canada for the dismantling of national bureaucratic barriers that can prevent oil and gas companies from working effectively around the world.…

Keith Nuthall
A REPORT from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) calling for liberalisation is a little like a report from the Pope suggesting more prayer, but the world’s premier international think tank has refined its arguments regarding utilities in a recent formal recommendation to its member governments.…

BY KATE REW
NEW York City Mayor, Rudolph Guiliani has called for the privatisation of JFK International Airport and LaGuardia Airport in a speech outlining his vision of their future.

Speaking at the New York-based Wings Club, Mayor Giuliani called for the consolidation of the body, which oversees the two airports into one agency, the Airport Improvement Corporation, in order to improve service and convenience, while accommodating increasing passenger traffic.…

BY KATE REW
BORED by the Vera and Jack Duckworth’s down the local? If so, head for your computer and pay a virtual visit to a pub of your choice: when you ‘see someone you’d like to get to know,’ as the logo says, then ‘click here and get them a beer’.…