Search Results for: European Court of Justice

BY PHILIP FINE

NEVADA state attorneys have outlined their case against the US government over the designation by President Bush of Yucca Mountain, northwest of Las Vegas, as a nuclear waste repository. A federal court has already agreed to hear challenges to the February 15 decision.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission announced today (Wednesday) that under the EU Merger Regulation it has approved the acquisition of the whole of the insurance business of the Deutsche Bank of Germany by the Zurich Financial Services Group of Switzerland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has “expressed concern” and “disappointment” over China’s failure to met a January 1 deadline to establish low duty tariff quotas for imports of sugar, palm oil and some other commodities under the terms of its accession to the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission wants to extend its fight against tax fraud by extending the existing Fiscalis co-operative programme covering VAT and excise duties to direct taxation. Ministers are discussing Brussels’ plans to spend Euro 56 million, (Pounds 34 million), on the plan over he next five years, funding improved electronic information exchanges, co-operation in investigations between national authorities, training seminars for customs and tax officials and exchanges of national officials.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced a ban on the sale in the EU of jelly mini-cups containing the food additive konjac (E 425), which take time to dissolve and have lead to the deaths of several American and Canadian children through choking.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
“SERIOUS concern” has been expressed by the European Commission over the failure of a number of Member States to set up telecommunications and IT networks to establish a New Computerised Transit System, which should seal an administrative loophole bleeding millions of Euro’s in defrauded revenue.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Council of Ministers has unanimously agreed the proposed directive on insurance mediation, a decision that almost guarantees its passage into EU law. The proposal will now receive a second reading by the European Parliament; if it does not make many changes, final approval could come before Brussels’ political summer recess.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MEETING of gas industry representatives, regulators and consumers from across the European Union has agreed good practice guidelines for third party access to the EU’s gas transmission network, a move that the European Commission has hailed as “significant progress in creating a single internal market for gas.”…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is taking Ireland to the European Court of Justice because of its alleged failure to adopt anti-pollution programmes designed to prevent pollution in marine areas yielding shellfish. Brussels claims that under the shellfish directive, programmes should prevent pollution in the first place, while Irish legislation only covers clean-ups after problems have arisen.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to take Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Portugal to the European Court of Justice for allegedly failing to fully implement the EU Basic Safety Standards Directive on protecting the health of workers and the public against dangers from ionising radiation.…