1.   Eastern European countries were likewise keen to join or at least to negotiate with the EC association agreements which would give them preferential access to EC markets.

2.   In addition, a bureaucratic agency may be given preferential access to some inputs, such as land, through planning legislation, for example.

3.   Executives still have preferential access to the private dining rooms, but, Mrs. Redmond said, conflicts are rare.

4.   In exchange, they will receive preferential access to Bank of Greece funding in case of need, government officials have said.

5.   The accord also follows haggling over whether Israeli fresh and processed agricultural products should get preferential access to the EU market.

6.   Another issue is the embattled banana regime and a U.S. challenge to the preferential access that Caribbean producers get to lucrative European markets.

7.   Caribbean growers preferential access to the European market is currently being challenged in a U.S.-led suit before the World Trade Organization.

8.   Developing countries will face more intensified competition in international trade as they lose preferential access to some markets, Mooy said.

9.   EU producers of textiles, clothing and footwear also have preferential access to the Hungarian market.

10.   For its part, NATO does not want to upset its immediate neighbors to the east by giving Russia preferential access to NATO headquarters.