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BY DAVID HAWORTH
A FEW recent days on the edge of the Saronic Sea, due West of Athens, is all that was needed to renew the conviction Greece is the European Union’s most sumptuous cliché.

In this, the country is abundant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW fuel quality standards for vehicles sold in the European Union (EU) from 2008 have been published by the European Commission, which will stop sports utility vehicles (SUVs) operating under laxer emissions rules applying to commercial vans. Instead, under the so-called Euro 5 plan, they would follow tougher regulations for cars.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rebuffed calls from the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) for increased European Union (EU) tariff protection against dumped styrene-butadiene-styrene thermoplastic rubber (SBS), an adhesive ingredient. Furthermore, it has proposed abolishing existing anti-dumping duties on the product on Taiwanese producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked all European Union (EU) member states to immediately ban imports of feathers and live birds from Russia and Kazakhstan because of confirmed outbreaks of bird flu. No ban is necessary for eggs, poultry meat or meat exports, because Russia and Kazakhstan do not sell these products to the EU.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A BINDING European code of practice promoting the health of farmed fish is being developed. Created by the committee of the Council of Europe’s European Convention for the Protection of Animals kept for Farming Purposes, the code has been written because of concerns that new fish farming techniques are posing health and welfare problems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MANAGER of several European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)-sponsored private equity funds in Russia and Kazakhstan has sold its remaining 6.4% shareholding in Russian cosmetics company Kalina. Eagle Venture Partners has sold its shares to major international funds, having invested in the company in November 2000, being advised by Renaissance Capital over the deal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is consulting on the environmental, health-related and social impacts of a draft master plan for decommissioning 121 nuclear-powered submarines and ships off northwest Russia. The EBRD has been staging meetings in Moscow, Murmansk and Severodvinsk.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DETAILED environmental impact assessment of a planned gold and silver mine in Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsular suggests that 1.13 million tonnes of ore will be mined over six years by British company Trans-Siberian Gold plc. Carried out by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the assessment said that the ore was high grade, with 22.2 g/t au gold density.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers yesterday (Tuesday) approved a steel trade deal that the European Commission negotiated earlier this year with the Ukraine. The agreement will run until December 2006, or whenever the Ukraine joins the World Trade Organisation if that comes earlier, mirroring a deal recently struck with Russia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PROACTIVE competition inquiry has been launched into the European Union’s (EU) natural gas sector, with the aim of rooting out anti-competitive practices. If the European Commission discovers instances of gas companies breaking existing EU competition law, legal action could follow.…