In our Winter 2007 Aerospace news, the front page goes to an article by Richard Gimblett on the EU draft legislation which will add civil aviation to the existing European Union Emissions Trading Scheme. Still on an environmental vein, Aidan Thomson provides us with an update on a number of recent legislative changes following which companies in the UK and their directors must have an increasing focus on environmental matters. In a series of short articles we deal with the end of the block exemption of IATA passenger tariff conferences in the context of EU competition rules, the new Nigerian Civil Aviation Act (Peter Coles) and the new regulations in Chile which allow foreign insurers to offer direct insurance in that country (Emilio Sahurie of our co-venture partners in South America, Estudio Carvallo). We analyse how a recent decision of the Court of Appeal makes it harder to determine whether holiday arrangements are caught by the UK package travel legislation and how two new UK statutory instruments impose criminal penalties on air carriers for breaches of EU laws on information to passengers. Keith Richardson analyses the threat over Bulgarian carriers of being added to the updated EU air carrier blacklist and examines possible flaws in the Commission's decision-making process. Finally, Mert Hifzi (with the assistance of Erçin Bilgin Bektasoglu) looks at new legislation in Turkey which extends the EU rules on minimum insurance to carriers flying into, out of, or over Turkey.