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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved in principle minimum health and safety requirements limiting the exposure of workers to exposure from optical radiation. Written into a EU directive, they transpose into European law globally accepted guidelines from the International Commission for Non-Ionising Radiation Protection.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has referred the creation of a proposed aircraft refuelling joint venture between Spanish petrol companies Shell Espana and Cepsa to Spain’s competition authorities, which may block the deal. The new business SIS would work in Spanish mainland and Balearic island airports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW Terrence B. Lettsome International Airport for the British Virgin Islands (BVI) should be completed this June. It has involved an apron expansion, landscaping and the construction of a sewerage treatment plant, a control tower and a new runway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL governments are often jealous of attempts by the European Union (EU) to increase its power into policy areas that they consider none of its business. Defence and foreign affairs are obvious examples, but health is another. EU member states have long resisted Brussels’ calls for influence over their health policies, but their resolve has weakened of late.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYKE
ARRIVING air passengers at Bandaranaike International Airport, Sri Lanka, from countries infected with Asian bird flu are to be screened for symptoms of the disease.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYKE
THE CENTRAL Japan International Airport Co. is to offer around Yen 700,000 per large commercial airliner at this third hub, Japanese newspapers claim. This compares with Yen 950,000 at Narita and Yen 830,000 at Kansai.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYKE
HONG Kong International Airport handled a record 2.64 million tons of cargo in 2003, a 6.6 per cent increase on 2002’s 2.48 million tons, which was also a record figure.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE JAPANESE government has warned that anticipated increased airspace capacity on the route between its Fukuoka air traffic control zone and that of Shanghai, in China, may not be available next year. Reduced vertical separation minimum (RVSM) services are being introduced on flight path A593 between Japan and China, but not on the SADLI section adjoining Chinese and North Korean airspace.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been granted authority to examine and if necessary block international airline deals between European Union (EU) and non-EU operators. Until now, Brussels has only had strong anti-trust powers over alliances between EU airlines. It said the new authority would allow it to examine cooperation agreements such as Star, Skyteam and Oneworld, whose competition effects cannot be properly assessed without examining intercontinental routes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank Group, has launched an ‘HIV/AIDS Guide for the Mining Sector’, advising metal ore mine operators, especially in developing countries, on how to minimise the exposure of their workforce to the disease.…