NORWAY REMOTE FIELDS
June 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court has thrown out a bid by two environmental groups to stop the Norwegian government offering tax privileges to natural gas exploration companies working in the inhospitable Snøhvit field, off the far north coast of Norway. Norway's Bellona Foundation and Germany's Technologien Bau und Wirtschaftsberatung wanted to overturn an approval of the tax breaks by the EFTA Surveillance Authority. The complainants alleged that these subsidies were illegal state aid under the rules of the European Economic Area, the ...
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