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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has admitted that translation difficulties caused by May 1’s accession of 10 new member countries is already slowing the adoption of important financial legislation, with the EU Council of Ministers accepting a six month delay for two accounting-related directives.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ESTONIA should hasten its electricity market liberalisation, helping to promote investment in an oil shale industry fuelling most power generation, the European Commission has proposed. It has asked European Union (EU) ministers to approve a derogation from the EU’s electricity liberalisation directive requiring full market opening – including the right to secure energy materials from any source – by 2012.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
E-BUSINESS W@tch (NOTE – CORRECT SPELLING), an EU-funded monitoring organisation, is claiming that businesses in countries joining the European Union (EU) in May are embracing new Internet technologies rapidly – especially broadband – resulting in a smaller digital divide with existing members than expected.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE INSTITUTIONS of the European Union (EU) have invited applications for about 375 lawyer posts to help meet the demands imposed by next year’s enlargement of the EU from 15 to 25 countries which will add 75 million to the EU population.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ESTONIAN government has launched an inquiry that is expected to lead it to impose temporary safeguard duties on pigmeat imports. The Baltic republic told the World Trade Organisation it was concerned about the effect on domestic producers of a rise in imports of fresh, frozen or chilled carcasses, half carcasses, hams, shoulders and other cuts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORN
EUROPEAN Union countries will have to ensure that at least two per cent of their transport fuel supplies are in the form of bio-fuels – made from sugar beet, cereals, maize and rape-seed – by 2005, under a European Commission directive to be proposed very shortly, said Franz Fischler, agriculture Commissioner.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has approved a textiles trade agreement signed with Estonia, which will widen import quotas, especially for Estonian exporters. The deal includes a double-checking system to check for surges in imports of a particular product and to ensure that textiles declared as Estonian were made in that country.…