Recently added articles from Transport Europe:
AVIATION: TACKLING EMISSIONS.
Jun 16, 2009 ... The bad news is that international experts have just pushed the estimated likely impact of aviation on climate change upwards. Although the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had until now kept to a guarded 3%, the figures it published last month raise the ...
ENVIRONMENT : NEW INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR PROTECTION OF BALTIC SEA.
Jun 16, 2009 ... Sweden, which will take over the Presidency of the European Union from 1 July to 31 December 2009, has placed the protection of the Baltic Sea among its priorities. It has just taken a step towards realising this objective by deciding, on 19 May, during a bilateral meeting with Finland, to ...
INTERVIEW WITH PAUL KUENTZMANN (ONERA) : "30% BIOFUELS IN AIRCRAFT BY AROUND 2020".
Jun 16, 2009 ... Paul Kuentzmann is Senior Scientific Adviser at Onera, the French aeronautics and space research centre. From 1996 to 2005, he was scientific director for fluids and energetics. As a specialist in aviation fuels, he comments here on research into alternative fuels. Do synthetic ...
AIR TRANSPORT : ACQUISITION OF BRITISH MIDLAND BY LUFTHANSA APPROVED.
Jun 16, 2009 ... The acquisition of UK airline British Midland (bmi) by Germany's Lufthansa (LH) was approved, on 14 May, by the European Commission. LH's and bmi's activities overlap in the areas of passenger transport by air, cargo transport by air and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) ...
AIR AGREEMENT WITH GEORGIA.
Jun 16, 2009 ... The Council of Transport Ministers authorised the European Commission to open negotiations for a global air agreement with Georgia. The decision was made at their meeting in Luxembourg on 11 June. The objective is to create a common airspace between the EU and Georgia, which would be based ...
AIR TRANSPORT : AIRLINE WEBSITES IMPROVE BUT "MORE WORK TO BE DONE".
Jun 16, 2009 ... European websites that sell airline tickets have improved their compliance with EU legislation on consumers' rights in the past few months. That is the positive aspect of the far-reaching operation carried out by the European Commission over the past 18 months to crack down on abuse on ...
ALGAE BIOMASS PRODUCERS ORGANISE.
Jun 16, 2009 ... The European Algae Biomass Association (EABA) will be officially launched at a general meeting of the organisation, on 3 and 4 June in Florence, at the initiative of the University of Florence and the European Biodiesel Board (EBB). The aim of the new association is to develop synergy ...
THREE QUESTIONS TO JOS DINGS : "A VERY MODEST START TO AN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY".
Jun 16, 2009 ... Jos Dings is the Director of T&E, the European Federation for Transport and Environment, the main environmental organisation focusing on the transport sector. T&E sees the application of the emissions trading scheme to aviation as a "failed opportunity". T&E describes the ...
EU/US : AVIATION ACCORDS PUT IN PERIL BY US CONGRESS.
Jun 16, 2009 ... Two landmark EU-US aviation agreements are being undermined by draft legislation that is edging closer to adoption by US lawmakers. A June 2008 bilateral agreement aimed at eliminating duplicative inspections of aircraft maintenance sites is the most serious casualty, but the prospects for ...
INTERVIEW WITH ERIC JOHNSON, DIRECTOR OF ATLANTIC CONSULTING : CARBON FOOTPRINTING SHOULD NOT BE OVERSOLD.
Jun 16, 2009 ... With some 100 carbon footprints and life-cycle assessments to his name, Eric Johnson, director of Atlantic Consulting, warns that the techniques should not be overstressed. Johnson has studied automobiles, consumer goods, industrial products and not least fuels - fossil fuels, biofuels and ...
AUTO INDUSTRY : CAR PRICE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEMBER STATES RISE.
Jun 16, 2009 ... The United Kingdom is the EU country with the lowest prices, excluding VAT, for new cars. It is followed by Sweden and Poland. In the eurozyone, Finland is the least expensive, followed by Greece and Slovenia. Germany, France and Belgium have the highest new car prices. This ...
CLEAN SKY CALL FOR PROPOSALS.
Jun 16, 2009 ... The first call for proposals for the Clean Sky joint technology initiative - an extensive aeronautical research programme to develop less polluting aircraft - was issued on 16 June. The call has an EU budget of 25 million that will co-finance research projects on engines, wings, regional ...
"CLEAN SKY" WILL SPEED UP RESEARCH FOR CLEAN PLANES.
Jun 16, 2009 ... The share of the budget devoted to aeronautics in the EU's 7th framework programme for research and technological development (FP7 2007-2013) is 2.2 billion euros. More than a third of this - 800 million euros - will be spent on a high-profile programme called Clean Sky'. The name speaks ...
EU/SOUTH KOREA : COMMISSION EYEING FTA BREAKTHROUGH THIS MONTH.
Jun 16, 2009 ... In the aftermath of the European elections, the EU executive is preparing a new push to conclude with South Korea the most ambitious bilateral free trade deal ever negotiated by the Union. Catherine Ashton, the EU trade commissioner, hopes to remove the remaining stumbling blocks, on 26 ...
EU/UN/CLIMATE CHANGE : COMMISSION KEEN TO KEEP ALL OPTIONS OPEN.
Jun 16, 2009 ... Ahead of a fresh round of preparatory negotiations for the Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference (7 to 18 December) held in Bonn, from 2 to 12 June, the European Commission transmitted to the Council, on 20 May, a communication and proposal for an amendment of the Kyoto ...
AUTO INDUSTRY : COMMISSION NOT EXPECTING ANTI-TRUST PROBE OF OPEL RESCUE.
Jun 16, 2009 ... The European Commission did not have to clear aid the German government plans to provide to ensure the survival of Opel, the car maker that employs 25,000 people in Germany. On 30 May, an agreement was reached in Berlin on the partial takeover of Opel by the Canadian equipment manufacturer ...
INTEGRATED MARITIME POLICY : COORDINATION GROUP TO TAKE OVER FROM ROME CONFERENCE.(Conference notes)
Jun 16, 2009 ... After three days of sector-based workshops, the 1,700 or so participants in the European Maritime Day Stakeholder Conference, held from 18 to 20 May in Rome, issued around 50 highly technical recommendations. The common denominator is the necessity for all stakeholders to develop ...
RAIL TRANSPORT : COUNCIL RULES OUT ABSOLUTE PRIORITY OF FREIGHT OVER PASSENGER TRAINS.
Jun 16, 2009 ... EU transport ministers, who were meeting in Council in Luxembourg on 11 June, have agreed on the creation of international railway freight corridors that will connect strategic terminals in different member states. The aim is to make the transport of goods by rail more competitive on ...
TRANSPORT COUNCIL : COUNCIL SETS OUT GUIDELINES ON THE FUTURE TEN.
Jun 16, 2009 ... Member states want to ensure that all the current priority projects in the Trans-European Transport Network remain investment priorities in the future, according to the conclusions adopted by the Council of transport ministers on 11 June in Luxembourg. The conclusions are the first ...
ENVIRONMENT : EIB ACCEPTS OMBUDSMAN'S RECOMMENDATION ON IMPACT ASSESSMENTS.
Jun 16, 2009 ... The European Investment Bank (EIB) has decided to improve the way in which it carries out environmental impact assessments for the projects it finances. This decision(1) follows a complaint by a resident of Barcelona, who considered that the project for a high-speed railway link via this ...