Brussels, 20/12/2001 (Agence Europe) - Giving a rapid but partial response to the wish expressed in Laeken by Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schussel (see EUROPE Special Edition of 16 December, p.6, on the Summit of Laeken), the European Commission adopted, on Thursday, a regulation extending the current ecopoints system, which could possibly allow the chapter on transport to be concluded in the membership negotiations before the end of the year. The extension of the ecopoints system was the...