Chief Executive Officer of AIRBUS Tom Enders addresses an audience during a talk on the subject: "Aviation: World, Wide, Web" at the European Parliament in Brussels, Tuesday Nov.17, 2009. [File photo: AP/Thierry Charlier]

The European Union (EU) has requested dispute consultations with the United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO), to address the EU's claim that the EU and its member states have complied with the WTO ruling on subsidies to Airbus.