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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/maritime transport

Commission's second attempt to present proposal opening port services up to competition

Brussels, 14/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Commissioner for Transport, Loyola de Palacio, is preparing a nice surprise for her successor, the Frenchman Jacques Barrot. As she announced in June, and just a few weeks before she leaves her post, Ms de Palacio intends to propose, for the second time, to liberalise port services (pilotage, towing, docking and handling). In the month of October, she will present a new proposed directive on market access to port services. This new proposal seems...

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