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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.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
A PROGRAMME to strengthen commercial aviation security on a global scale, primarily through a mandatory audit of national services, has been agreed by all 187 Member States of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) at a two day High-Level, Ministerial Conference held at its headquarters in Montreal, Canada.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has voted to accept the latest European Commission airport noise directive, while passing some technical amendments that would make the legislation tougher than originally proposed.

MEP’s voted for changes time-limiting for 10 years an exemption allowing the noisiest aircraft registered in developing countries to continue operating in Europe, adding that these aeroplanes must be prevented from moving to new routes in the EU.…

Keith Nuthall
THE VENEZUELAN government has notified the World Trade Organisation about how it intends to implement the third tranche of its liberalisation commitments under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing. Caracas said its new quota-free list of goods would include additional products, accounting for at least 18 per cent of Venezuela’s 1990 textile and clothing imports.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INDIAN government has abandoned its appeal against last December’s World Trade Organisation ruling that it had broken global commerce rules by insisting that auto-manufacturers within its territory not only promise to buy some components locally, but that they export products of an equal value of imported inputs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Free Trade Area Court has ordered Norway to scrap its discriminatory beer retail system, where mostly domestically-produced brands of between 2.5% and 4.75% abv, can be sold outside the state alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet, while other largely imported pre-packaged alcoholic drinks, with the same strength, must be sold through the government system.…

Keith Nuthall
CHINA has sought to allay fears that it is dragging its feet over the implementation of liberalisation commitments it made when it was admitted into the World Trade Organisation. It has released explanatory notes to the European Union and Canada, who have raised concerns over the opening of textile import quotas.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN Council for Leather Exports is lobbying its government to allow the duty-free free import of “essential inputs” and a cut in duty on machinery parts, to boost exports. Notably, it wants duty-free import for inputs for manufacturing safety shoes and boots, winter-lined work gloves, saddlery items, packaging materials and trade samples.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOD safety and quality need to be improved in all European countries because of the increase in food-borne diseases in the past decade, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have said.…

Keith Nuthall
THE ISRAELI bombing of Gaza International Airport during the ongoing hostilities involving the Palestinian Authority has been “strongly condemned” by the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). The military action destroyed both the runway and its air navigation facilities.…