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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government will have to defend itself at the European Court of Justice against claims by the European Commission that it has broken European Union law over tough personnel regulations, restricting the employment of qualified social care workers from other EU Member States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that the international Cartegena protocol on the safe transfer, handling and use of genetically modified organisms is incorporated into EU law. Its suggested regulation would oblige exporters to notify authorities about GM consignments, which would have to be labelled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is being urged, by a working party helping it write new welfare rules on laboratory animals, to take account of the effect of better conditions on experiment results. Tests have shown that subjects in comfortable surroundings are healthier than those in poor accommodation, and that these environmental factors should be considered when assessing results.…

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 Directive is due to be implemented by 15 December 1999. Adoption by the Council follows adoption of the Directive by the European Parliament at its November plenary session.

“Adoption of this Directive marks an important step forward”, Mr Monti stated, “both for lawyers themselves, who will find it much easier to practice in other Member States, and for their clients, especially the many businesses and citizens who need a lawyer in another Member State.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RADIO navigation is to be improved in the Gulf of Finland, notably in Russian waters, because of a planned European Bank for Reconstruction and Development-funded project. The Maritime Port Authority of St Petersburg has formally applied for a loan from the bank for a US$5.4 million project to set up three radio towers on the islands of Gogland, Sommers and Skar, part of a regional navigational safety project.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government will have to defend itself at the European Court of Justice against claims by the European Commission that it has broken European Union law over tough personnel regulations, restricting the employment of special needs teachers from other EU Member States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMAL proposals have been released by the European Commission for a programme to help spread medicines fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries. The plans include budget lines of Euro 26.1 million, covering aid from January 2003 to December 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DUTCH and Luxembourg governments will have to defend themselves at the European Court of Justice against claims by the European Commission that they have broken European Union law by failing to implement key European Union legislation guaranteeing lawyers the right to work across the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has proposed reforms to the World Trade Organisation’s trade related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) agreement that would enable developing countries with no domestic drug production to gain access to essential medicines. At a meeting of TRIPS council, Brussels proposed an amendment allowing the importing council to licence manufacture of medicines in another country, in case of an emergency.…