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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UKRAINE government has secured a major loan package designed to secure its reliability as a winter suppler of gas to Europe through improving its gas storage and distribution. The European Commission welcomed the deal, which it helped broker.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to swiftly write into EU law a multi-year stock protection plan for eastern bluefin tuna. It is based on an agreement forged last November at the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) at its annual meeting in Marrakech, Morocco.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AIR passengers flying into the European Union (EU) from the Croatian airports of Dubrovnik, Rijeka, Pula, Split, Zadar and Zagreb will be able to keep their duty-free pastes, gels and liquids when taking connecting flights to a second EU destination, in future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Mauritania have agreed to renegotiate and downsize their fishing agreement granting EU fishing boats the right to exploit the north African country’s fishing stocks. These talks follow the embarrassing news that EU fishing fleets have failed to avail themselves of the rights made available to them in the existing agreement, which had been hailed as a groundbreaking deal.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE EXPANSION of the European Union (EU) eastwards has been welcomed by most industries, and the tobacco market is no exception, although the EU enlargement has also created a series of problems for the industry to manage. The accession of Bulgaria to the EU club in 2007 brought a significant tobacco industry player into the fold.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has been approving a series of operational programmes for many European Union (EU) member states’ fishing (and aquaculture) sectors, outlining how it will target money from the European Fisheries Fund (EFF).

One of the largest recipients of this Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) subsidy scheme is France, which is to receive Euro 216 million from 2007-13, less than it received under the 2000-2006 Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG), which supplied Euro 278 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEGOTIATIONS designed to lead to Croatia joining the European Union (EU) are being held up by concerns that its government is failing to sufficiently tackle corruption problems, say assessments from European Commission and the European Parliament. Its representative on the issue Austrian Socialist MEP Hannes Swoboda has warned this could delay Croatian accession beyond 2011.…

BY MARK ROWE
CROATIA’S application to join the European Union (EU) has been far from plain sailing. Corruption, commercial crime and general unease about the judicial reform have been cited among reasons for delays to Croatia’s accession. But is Croatia’s commercial crime record so much worse than that of the EU’s newest members, Bulgaria and Romania?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that definitive anti-dumping duties are imposed on imports into the European Union (EU) of certain seamless iron or steel pipes and tubes from Croatia, Romania, Russia and Ukraine.

These would expand earlier duties covering pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel – excluding alloy steel – although tariffs on Russian and Romanian exports were suspended in 2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed increasing anti-dumping duties on Ukraine exports into the European Union (EU) of certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel from 38.5% to 64.1%. This follows a Commission review requested by the Defence Committee of the Seamless Steel Tube Industry of the European Union, which also examined dumping duties on the same product from Croatia.…