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The North Sea-Mediterranean corridor from Ireland and the North of England to the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Mediterranean is one of nine Trans-European Transport Network priority routes unveiled by the European Commission on 17 October. They form a core network of main road, rail, air, maritime and inland waterway infrastructure that should be in place and operational by 2030. The routes will be co-financed to the tune of €23 ...
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The European Commission launched two proposals to ease customs formalities for shipping in Europe on 8 July.
It plans to upgrade the procedures already in place for intra-European shipping to make them shorter and more flexible. However, as almost 90% of ships carry both EU and non EU goods and call ...
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The European Commission said on 19 June that it had carried out unannounced inspections at the premises of companies involved in rail freight to South-East Europe, in several member states. In a move reminiscent of the 'dawn raids' against container shipping companies suspected of cartel-like practices, it said that it ...
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The European Commission, Council and Parliament reached agreement on 30 May on a plan to transform the road, rail, airport and canal system into a unified transport network. Commission vice-President responsible for transport Siim Kallas welcomed it as an “historic agreement to create a powerful European transport network across 28 ...
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The European Commission is determined to push through measures to increase competition for a range of services in the port sector - though not cargo handling - in its new ports package published on 23 May.
The package would apply to the 300 or so ports that are designated as part ...
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The European Commission is due to publish a green paper on how best to create an integrated European parcels market, especially with the growth of online shopping, on 24 November. The report forms part of efforts by Brussels to e-Commerce in the Union.
It notes the current very fragmented state of ...
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The European Commission may send UPS and TNT a statement of objections to their proposed merger, reports the Europolitcs website. It said that this might force the US parcels giant into making concessions.
EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, at a 20 September conference in the US said it was important to ...
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European Parliament President Martin Schulz has written to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso asking him to postpone plans to allow 25.5 metre trucks – so called gigaliners - to operate cross-border between countries that allow them on their domestic territories. It follows a letter sent to member states by ...
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The EU and the US formally agreed to recognise each other’s air freight security requirements under a mutual recognition agreement signed on 1 June. The deal by the European Commission and the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), aims to eliminate duplication in security controls as well as the need to ...
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The European Commission has sent warnings (“reasoned opinions”) to Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Poland, Portugal and Spain telling them to apply the Working Time Directive to . If they fail to do so within two months, the Commission could refer the cases to the European Court of Justice. ...
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