BBC3's current affairs output exceeded the quota set out by Ofcom by 25% this year, he adds, and there are more to come, including programmes on child soldiersand dyslexia and a gritty documentary about a triple amputee returning from Afghanistan.
In 2005 the 112,500 ticket quota sold out rapidly — in this case in 3 hours 20 minutes.
Gary Masson of the Northern Producers Organisation in Aberdeen, which dishes out fish quotas, points out that a set of white-fish quotas (for cod, haddock and suchlike) bought for £300,000 three years ago sold for £700,000 this year.An oddity about this trade is that quotas have no legal existence.
The European commission is set to present proposals on Wednesday to introduce national quotas, sharing out refugees more equally between EU member states.
THE deal on fishing quotas hammered out between European fisheries ministers just before Christmas was stringent enough to make fishermen angry but not to solve the problem of declining fish stocks.
Quotas bring out the petty side of politicians, who obsess over every one of their 107,635 votes (the number cast by Britain and, curiously, by France as well), as if they were 107,635 square miles of territory.The Americans want a new formula to give pride of place to GDP, the least arbitrary measure of an economy's weight in the world.
OPEC's agreement to increase oil quotas topped out Schlumberger and Halliburton and created massive hemorrhaging in the drillers.
The plan calls for the 15-nation union to stop discriminating in favor of banana-producing nations that were once colonies of member states in allocating import quotas, and to phase out quotas entirely by 2006.
Negotiators on both sides left any suggestion of quotas out of the settlement, leaving the panel to tackle the issue later if it so chooses.
