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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LITHUANIAN government has agreed to close its Soviet-era nuclear plant at Ignalina after the European Union said it would help fund decommissioning. Although the amount of subsidy has yet to be agreed, the aid promise prompted Vilnius to announce the closure of unit 1 before 2005 and unit 2 by 2009.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on Germany to reform its spirits monopoly law regarding the production of grain brandy, Kornbranntwein. It wants to prevent small agricultural producers being unfairly favoured with state production subsidies denied to producers from other Member States, and, from 2006, to larger German commercial producers.…

From Alan Osborn
The European Commission has ordered Germany to stop blocking the

sale of the Austrian drink Original Schwedenbitter by claiming it to be a

medicinal product which requires special authorisation.

Original Schwedenbitter is sold in Austria without restriction as a

herb-based alcoholic beverage but is traditionally bought in Germany as a

cure for several illnesses.…

Keith Nuthall
THE NORWEGIAN government has moved to liberalise its alcohol retail system, following the order from the European Free Trade Area Court that it should scrap its discriminatory beer retail system, where the sale of brands of between 2.5% and 4.75% abv outside the state alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet is generally limited to domestically-produced lines.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
FIVE YEARS since it was first proposed, the End-of-Life (ELV) Vehicle Directive has just about made it to the statute books of a handful of EU member states. A directive both controversial and complex, it was maybe surprising, if a little disappointing, that the deadline of April 21, 2002 for transposition went by without a single EU country passing legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DECLINE in the European Union’s use and production of coal over the past 50 years has been documented in a detailed paper by EU statistical agency Eurostat to mark the end of the European Coal and Steel Community.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on Germany to reform its spirits monopoly law regarding the production of grain brandy, Kornbranntwein. It wants to prevent small agricultural producers being unfairly favoured with state production subsidies denied to producers from other Member States, and, from 2006, to larger German commercial producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has authorised the European Commission to negotiate guaranteed prices for sugar suppliers from India and the so called ACP (African Caribbean Pacific) group of countries, which has special trade relations with the EU.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
SOME 12 million tonnes of scrap metal – mainly steel – are expected to enter global markets this decade as redundant nuclear power stations are closed down worldwide; in Europe, there is likely to be a surge from 2003 onwards, via a closure programme for obsolete plants in the eastern European countries applying to join the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SCIENTIFIC Steering Committee of the European Union has advised the European Commission that cattle aged over one year bear a low risk of BSE infection provided existing feed bans continue to be properly enforced. The advice opens the way to loosen the EU’s insistence on the removal of vertebrae from these older cattle.…