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Tachographs to be fitted in all EU-registered lorries and buses that cross borders.
MEP and member state negotiators have reached an agreement
on new rules to require tachographs – on-board recording devices to measure a
drivers speed and distance – to be fitted in all European Union-registered lorries and buses
that cross borders.
The deal, reached yesterday (14 May), would require the
devices to be installed in all new lorries and buses within three [...] Read more
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Committee backs 2025 target for emissions
Proposal rejected by civil liberties committee.
Green campaigners say environment committee's vote plays into the hands of carmakers.
European Parliament backs Commission proposal for safer shipping, but votes against creation of fund for recycling.
Proposal would improve shape and also allow extra-large lorries to cross borders
New EU rules for labour conditions aboard ships.
Commission wants ships to report all their emissions.
German firm says new refrigerant is not safe
For Alain Flausch, head of the International Association of Public Transport, bringing together representatives from 92 countries can be like herding cats
MEPs have voted in favour of a Europe-wide ship recycling fund.
MEPs to reconsider ground-handling proposal.
Report says that Commission's proposed rules would create around 400,000 jobs.
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Special report: Air transport
Published Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Campaigners say that freezing the ETS has boosted airlines' profits.
The European Commission's decision to ‘freeze' application of the emissions trading scheme for foreign flights has not ended hostilities.
Residents and airports clash over airport noise levels.
The European Commission wants one, harmonised airspace in the EU, but air-traffic controllers say the plans are too difficult to implement.
Technological advances are changing the way that planes fly, through increased automation and fuel efficiency.
China and the US are building airports to cope with increased passenger numbers. In Europe, construction and expansion of airports has been [...]
Flights are less expensive and more frequent, but liberalisation has not pleased everyone.
Europe's aviation sector has seen phenomenal growth over the past two decades, but uncertainty about the future is plaguing the sector.
