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European Union will review air safety in India in the light of US Federal Aviation Administration down grading India in February. It has sought details of action taken by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation since February before the review in November.
FAA downgraded Indias safety ranking from category-II from -I after an audit revealed deficiencies in regulatory oversight.
FAAs decision can have ramifications and now regulators in Europe are stepping up the heat. Any adverse findings could result into Europe imposing operational restrictions or bans on Indian carriers.
European Commission spokesperson Dale Kidd said EU Air Safety Committee in its March meeting decided to invite the Indian authorities for a meeting in Brussels to discuss aviation safety in India, and to brief about actions being undertaken by them.
"The European Commission and the EU Air Safety Committee will then - following the upcoming meeting in November - assess the situation and decide on the best course of action under the various options in the EU Air Safety List regulation,'' he added.
At present Air India flies to London, Birmingham, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan and Rome. Jet Airways flies to London, Brussels and Paris.
Civil aviation ministry officials however are confident that India will soon be back to category I ranking. FAA is likely to visit India in November for a fresh audit, they said.
FAA, in safety audits conducted in September and December last year, had expressed severe concerns over the lack of full-time flight operations inspectors (FOIs) in the DGCA and had subsequently downgraded India to category II of safety rankings.
The DGCA, under its chief Prabhat Kumar, has been working overtime to fast-track processes and meet requirements pointed out by the FAA.
"The FAA had not indicated how many FOIs we need to have on-board. The norm is to have one for every 10 aircraft. We have hired 56 FOIs, 38 of whom have already joined and are in various stages of the training scheduled. With these recruitments we are more than equipped to carry out safety inspections on scheduled, non-scheduled, general aviation aircraft,'' a DGCA official said.
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Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, and Michael Gove, the chief whip, have both said that they would be prepared to leave Europe if Britain cannot secure the necessary reforms.
Speaking on the Andrew Marr show, Mr Cameron said: "If I thought that it wasn't in Britain's interest to be in the European Union I wouldn't argue for us to be in it.
"I do this job because I Iove my country, I care passionately about its future and I want it to be a strong, proud, self-governing independent nation.
"Yes, working with other European countries on trade and cooperation, maximising our influence in the world. I believe we will get what we want.
"We need to get out of ever-close union, we need proper safeguards of the single market. At the heart of this yes of course there is a right to go and work in other European countries, but it is not an unqualified right. You should not be able to move for benefits or abuse the rules.
"What I believe is right for Britain is to seek reform, get reform and get Britain to vote to stay in a reformed European Union. If people don't like that plan the only way they get to vote to get out of the European Union is if I am Prime Minister.
"If I don't achieve that, it will be for the British public to decide whether to stay in or to get out."
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BRUSSELS, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - The European Union on Monday officially adopted a new round of sanctions against Russia over its alleged involvement in destabilizing eastern Ukraine, a statement by the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy said.
"A package of further restrictive measures against Russia has been adopted by the Council today (through written procedure), deepening the targeted measures of July 31," the statement said.
According to the document, the new measures will come into force in the next few days pending the assessment of the implementation of the ceasefire agreement and the peace plan.
Depending on the situation on the ground, the EU stands ready to review the agreed sanctions in whole or in part, the document said.
Reuters has earlier reported that the EU agreed in principle last week a new set of sanctions against Russia over its alleged role in the Ukrainian crisis.
The new sanctions list reportedly includes Russias Rosneft, Gazpromneft and Transneft energy firms, as well as state-run companies with a turnover of more than $27 billion annually.
The European Union and the United States have already imposed several rounds of economic sanctions over Moscows alleged participation in the Ukrainian conflict. The Russian side reacted by introducing a year-long ban on certain food imports from the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia and Norway.
At the EU Summit held in Brussels on August 30, European leaders urged the European Commission to create proposals for more sanctions against Russia within one week. However, the opinion of the EU member states on sanctions remained divided and the Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico called on the European Union to put off imposing new sanctions against Russia.
On September 5, the representatives of Kiev and the self-proclaimed republics of Luhansk and Donetsk agreed to a ceasefire at the meeting of the Contact Group on Ukrainian reconciliation in Minsk.
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