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The European Commission is considering making infringement of road cabotage rules an offence that could lead to the loss of an operator's good repute, with offenders facing potential disqualification from the industry. The move was announced by the Fotis Karamitsos, land transport director at the Commission's transport directorate, DG MOVE, at a European Parliament transport committee hearing on 5 May. The Parliament has been pushing the commission to give more ...
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The European Commission withdraw on 17 December a proposed directive to further liberalise ground handling services at European airports, including cargo. The December 2011 proposal would have required airports to allow a larger number of providers to offer services such as cargo and baggage handling. While the plan had the ...
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Talks between the European Commission, Parliament and the Council on 1 December failed to bring any progress on cross-border operation of longer trucks in the EU. on the question of weights and dimensions of trucks. Parliament wants new rules to come into force as soon as possible but the Council ...
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Lithuania has asked the European Commission to intervene in French plans to prevent truck drivers from taking their rest time in vehicle cabs. It has called for the subject to be addressed in a working group, arguing that the planned legislation would break EU rules.France has adopted a law under ...
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Russia placed an immediate ban on a wide range of food imports from EU, US, Australia, Canada and Norway on 7 August, including fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, milk and dairy products and said that it was in talks with Belarus and Kazakhstan to prevent western foodstuffs reaching Russia from there. ...
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The European Commission has extended the block exemption for liner shipping consortia by a further five years, until April 2020. It follows a public consultation, from which Brussels concluded that the exemption has worked well, providing legal certainty and bringing benefits to customers and without unduly distorting competition.
The Maritime Consortia ...
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A group of 11 EU member states, led by the French and including Denmark Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain but not the UK - signed a declaration against 'social dumping' in road transport in Europe at a meeting outside the 5 June Transport Council in Luxembourg.
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The European Commission is inviting comments on a proposal to continue the consortia block exemption regulation that exempts liner shipping consortia from EU antitrust rules. The current regulation is due to expire in April 2015.
According to the Commission, if consortia are faced with sufficient competition and are not used to ...
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The European Commission cleared the merger between the airport ground and cargo handlers Swissport and Servisair on 18 December, conditional on Swissport disposing of its ground handling activities at Birmingham Airport and Servisair's of activities at London Gatwick Newcastle and Helsinki. The executive did not raise any competition concerns over ...
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The European Commission has launched a formal investigation into several container liner shipping companies to investigate whether they have engaged in anti-competitive pratices. The Commission says that the companies have been making generally similar regular public announcements on price increases and the date of their implementation since 2009. The Commission ...
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