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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Central Bank, which has resisted granting EU anti-fraud unit OLAF complete rights to investigate its dealings, has given itself a clear bill of health regarding fraud. The whiter-than-white assessment, (to quote former European Commission president Jacques Santer), came from the bank’s own anti-fraud committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TEMPORARY European Parliament committee set up to consider last year’s Foot and Mouth Disease crisis has been told by experts that “the jury is still out” on the effectiveness of vaccination. MEP’s heard that as there was still no commercially available, foolproof means of distinguishing between vaccinated and infected animals, vaccination can harm disease controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will be considering whether European Union competition and state aid laws need to be amended, should the EU decide to support the creation of a mutual Eurotime Fund granting additional insurance protection to the continent’s aviation industry.…

Keith Nuthall
A REFORM of the EU’s First Company Law Directive has been formally proposed by the European Commission, to ease the filing of company documents and registrations via electronic communications and also in any official EU language.

The aim said the Commission, is “to make company information more easily and rapidly available to the public.”…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ACCOUNTANTS will be able to check the validity of their clients’ customers’ VAT identification numbers via the Internet through a new service launched by the European Commission. It provides access to the VAT Information Exchange System (VIES) database free of charge, which should speed up verification procedures, saving time and money for accountants and businesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENERGY consumption is still rising in the European Union, says a new European Environment Agency report, which blames transport growth for the problem; it says energy efficiency is improving only slowly and renewable energies need to expand by at least double the current rate if targets for boosting their market shares by 2010 are to be reached.…

Keith Nuthall
A REFORM of the EU’s First Company Law Directive has been formally proposed by the European Commission, to ease the filing of company documents and registrations via electronic communications and also in any official EU language.

The aim said the Commission, is “to make company information more easily and rapidly available to the public.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENERGY consumption is still rising in the European Union, says a new European Environment Agency report, which blames transport growth for the problem; it says energy efficiency is improving only slowly and renewable energies need to expand by at least double the current rate if targets for boosting their market shares by 2010 are to be reached.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has reversed changes made by the European Parliament to EU asbestos exposure proposals. MEP’s had voted that workers be not exposed to an average airborne concentration of more than 0.1 fibres per square centimetre, over four hours.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union research project is about to be launched, which will create a new sophisticated model for reducing tyre noise. This ‘microscopic road traffic noise-modelling project,’ (ROTRANOMO), will consider the type of vehicle, tyre-road interaction, traffic management, driver behaviour, environmental planning and vehicle structure changes to develop a more effective noise calculation model.…