No 176 - Weekly - 17 March 2006 

White Paper
  on Transport

  Green Paper
  on Energy Efficiency

	Europe Direct

[ Transport ]

• Aviation blacklist agreed by Committee of national experts

• Questions and answers on the aviation blacklist

• Preparation of the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council of Ministers, Brussels
   

[ Energy ]

• Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs to discuss with G8 energy leaders the key global energy security issues

• Council conclusions on a New Energy Policy for Europe

[ Practical Information ]

• Public Consultations

• New Calls for Tender

The Aviation Safety Committee, responsible for helping the European Commission to draw up the list of airlines banned in the European Union, completed its work on the 15th of March. The Committee’s unanimous opinion is the result of a detailed assessment of the national safety measures notified by the Member States and the information provided by the airlines and the civil aviation authorities concerned. On the basis of this, the Commission will adopt a Regulation on the European blacklist within the next week. “We have just taken a decisive step", said Jacques Barrot, Vice-President of the Commission responsible for transport. “I am now in a position to ask the Commission to quickly adopt the black list and to publish it, so that we can make sure that the companies identified in it will not have the possibility to enter Europe before they have resolved their problems”.

Related topics from previous issues:

• (16/11/2005) Rapid agreement reached on airline blacklist

• (07/09/2005) Transport Committee demands EU-wide blacklist for air carriers

 A list of 16 FAQ's concerning the aviation blacklist.

Related topics from previous issues :

• (17/02/2006) First anniversary of Air Passenger Rights
  
   

The EU Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council  met in Brussels on Tuesday 14 March under the chairmanship of Austrian Federal Minister of Economics and Labour Mr. Martin Bartenstein. The European Commission was represented by the Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs. The text provides a list of the most important issues on the  table.

Related topics from previous issues :

• (24/02/2006) Energy, environment, competitiveness: Commission launches high level group

• (01/02/2006) EU-OPEC Energy Dialogue: OPEC Conference President meets with the President of the EU-Energy Ministers' Council
   

Energy Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, participated in the G8 Energy Ministerial Meeting that took place in Moscow on 16 March. Commissioner Piebalgs  met with Russian Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko the day before.

Related topics from previous issues :

• (07/10/2003) Security of energy supply tops the agenda for the next European Union Energy Council

• (08/03/2006) Fuelling our future: the European Commission sets out its vision for an Energy Strategy for Europe

At it's meeting on the 14th of March in Brussels, the Council adopted its conclusions on the Commission's Green Paper on a European Strategy for Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy.

Related topics from previous issues :

• (16/02/2006) The situation of internal markets in gas and electricity (speech by Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs)

Public Consultations

In this section you will find the newest calls for submissions to public consultations in fields of energy and transport.

New Calls for Tender

The internet service of DG TREN has developed a  web page announcing the Call for tenders & Call for expression of interest concerning the Directorate General for Transport and Energy. In this new section you will find not only contract notices published in the Official Journal but also, prior information notices, calls for expressions of interest, and the list of contracting parties.

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