U.S.-EU JOINT COMMITTEE MEETS TO DISCUSS NAI
January 15, 2015
DOT recently published minutes from the November 25, 2014 meeting of the U.S.-EU Joint Committee, which met to discuss Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) pending DOT application. During the meeting the European delegation reiterated its belief that the Department’s handling of the application was inconsistent with the “minimum procedural delay requirement in Article 4” of the U.S.-EU Air Transport Agreement (ATA) and stated that the EU and its Member States reserve the right “to take all possible measures permissible under the ATA.” Predictably, the U.S. delegation did not provide a deadline or estimated date for further action on the application, but assured the Europeans that NAI’s application was actively being considered.
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