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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HIGH Court bid by British Sugar to recoup UK Pounds 6.6 million production levies, demanded by the UK’s Intervention Board, could have been damaged by the European Court of Justice. Its judges have ruled that the board had the authority to refuse paying export subsidies to British Sugar on 16,600 tonnes of sugar exported under a special ‘c’ quota.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATIONAL regulatory authorities have the power to refuse to allow waste shipments to leave EU ports or cross their territories via inland waterways, whether they represent the country sending a cargo, receiving it or being used for transshipment, the European Court of Justice has ruled.…

Keith Nuthall
BEER, cider and perry producers from outside the European Union will be able to oppose the registration of EU-made products on a Brussels register of geographical indications, under reforms to the system tabled by EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised Germany to pay Euro 1 million, (Pounds 610,000), in national aid to beef farmers in North Rhine-Westphalia as compensation for losses arising out of the BSE crisis. Aid will be in the form of subsidised loans worth some Pounds 15 per animal and will cover up to 500 farmers.…

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 ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union’s Council of Ministers has just approved – in principle – a proposed directive on insurance mediation. Final agreement on the legislation could come by midsummer. The directive requires that all those carrying out insurance or reinsurance mediation be formally authorised by the statutory authorities of Member States on the basis of appropriate knowledge and ability, good repute, the possession of professional indemnity insurance and financial capacity where appropriate.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DEMAND for broadband high-speed Internet services needs to increase in the European Union for the publishing industry to reap the full potential of digital technology, EU Enterprise and Information Society Commissioner Erkki Liikanen said at a meeting with key players from the continent’s publishing industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved a special Tonnage Tax in Spain, where the country’s maritime shipping companies pay tax on the capacity of their ships rather than the profit or loss that they generate.

Brussels approved the plan under its EU internal market powers, because it matches policies stated in the 1997 Commission guidelines on state aid to maritime transport and its new transport white paper.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INCENTIVES designed to encourage European pharmaceutical manufacturers to develop specialist children’s medicines have been proposed by the European Commission; its consultation paper also suggests ways of increasing the testing of existing general medicines for their effectiveness and safety regarding young patients.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CLASSICAL swine fever has been detected at three locations in Luxembourg and the export of all live pigs and porcine semen, ova and embryos, as well as the shipment of pigs through the tiny country, has been banned by the European commission.…