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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GROWING thaw in relations between Spain and Britain over the future of Gibraltar and its airport, has prompted the European Commission to retable a long-standing proposal to establish a European Union regime on the safety inspection of aircraft from non-EU countries.…

Keith Nuthall
THE ATTACK on the World Trade Centre has put a new focus on the

provision of third party recovery contracts through which companies can

purchase back-up facilities in the event of disaster. Some 80 per cent of

all financial sector companies now have some kind of third party contract

giving them access to offices and other premises, computing and

communication facilities and processing resources that can make the

difference between going bust and carrying on business reasonably normally.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ABILITY of the European Commission to effectively monitor the European Union insurance sector has been called into question by MEP’s, who have admitted being “astonished” after receiving official complaints about irregularities at Lloyd’s of London dating back 20 years.…

Keith Nuthall
A 2-day conference ending yesterday (Wednesday) in London has posed

questions which should be a matter of top priority to any financial

services company today: how well did the overall financial system and

individual organisations cope with the disaster of September 11th and what

lessons can we draw about dealing with similar outrages in the future ?…

Keith Nuthall
THE GROWING thaw in relations between Spain and Britain over the future of Gibraltar and its airport, has prompted the European Commission to retable a long-standing proposal to establish a European Union regime on the safety inspection of aircraft from non-EU countries.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
Companies worried about the threat to the continuity of their

business posed by a disaster like the World Trade Centre attack can insure

against it. To nobody’s surprise the practice has soared in popularity

since September 11th. Mr Chris Rigby Smith, head of business continuity at

Marsh UK, told delegates at this week’s contingency planning and disaster

recovery conference in London that business interruption insurance (BII)

differed from business crisis management (BCM) but they were linked.…

Keith Nuthall
ONE of the more uplifting stories to emerge from the World Trade

Centre disaster was the way Merrill Lynch, the world’s largest stockbroker,

got its people back at work and its systems running again so quickly

afterwards. Ian Ross, business continuity manager at Merrill Lynch, told

delegates at this week’s 2-day contingency planning and disaster recovery

in financial services conference in London how it happened and what was

learnt.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TIGHTER noise restrictions on commercial aircraft visiting European Union airports have been proposed by the European Commission; it has tabled a new directive that would allow the worst affected airports to ban aircraft that marginally comply with the existing Chapter 3 standard accepted by the International Civil Aviation Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the payment by the British government of Euro 80 million in additional state aid to boost the movement of freight through the Scottish port of Rosyth, in a bid to boost the country’s short sea shipping sector.…

Keith Nuthall
TIGHTER noise restrictions on commercial aircraft visiting European Union airports have been proposed by the European Commission; it has tabled a new directive that would allow the worst affected airports to ban aircraft that marginally comply with the existing Chapter 3 standard accepted by the International Civil Aviation Organisation, (ICAO).…