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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A ROAD safety initiative has been launched by the European Commission, which has formally proposed a new directive laying down European Union-wide standards for the installation of additional rear view mirrors and other vision systems, including cameras, for motor vehicles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HEALTHY market in the use of waste oil as a fuel to generate electricity is being promoted in the European Union through excise duty exemptions, erected in the face of official EU environmental policy, a new European Commission report says.…

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EUROPEAN Union companies alerting European Commission investigators about cartels of which they form a part, will find it easier to escape being fined for their crimes in future, because of a new so-called “leniency policy” launched to promote whistle-blowing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RETURN of demand amongst consumers in the European Union for high quality beef following the decline of BSE has made the European Commission propose that the EU opens a special 1,000 tonne import quota for high quality fresh, chilled or frozen beef, with a low 20 per cent duty rate.…

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A NEW report on the development of photovoltaics (PV) has been published by the European Commission, which recommends that new electricity storage technologies need to be adapted for use by this developing alternative electricity production method and also suggests ways to reduce the high price of developing this energy source.…

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THE MARITIME Museum of Finland and Britain’s Mary Rose Trust have teamed up with four other archeological groups to explore four important European shipwrecks, creating what will be a virtual exhibition of their findings.

Internet sites will publish pictures and information about the sites, which include:

*A late 13th Century cog, (small, trade vessel), off Mecklenburg, Germany;

*The Vrouw Maria, a Dutch sailing ship that sank off Finland in 1771, carrying artworks and treasures from Amsterdam to St Petersburg for Catherine the Great.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union health and consumer protection Commissioner David Byrne has revealed that the European Commission “will shortly launch a major advertising campaign to increase awareness among teenagers of the negative effects of tobacco consumption.” Speaking about the World No Smoking Day initiative, he said that the move was part of Brussels “tobacco control strategy.”…

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THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has developed plans to lend Euro 25 million to Croatian air navigation services provider Croatia Control Ltd. The money would pay for the renewal of Zagreb Area Control Centre, replacing old equipment and allowing the country to cope with an expected future increase in air traffic.…

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A NORWEGIAN salmon producer which had been hit with European Union anti-dumping and countervailing duties after failing to file compulsory performance reports with the European Commission, is expected to be freed from having to pay the tariffs.

Gje-Vi AS was ordered in 1998 to pay the duties, because Brussels claimed that it had broken promises not to dump salmon on European markets and to prove with its accounts that it was trading fairly.…

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THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has ignored strong pressure from the American government to abandon its plans to exempt EU-based suppliers of digital products from charging VAT when they sell to customers in non-EU countries.

Sealing a formal political agreement on the proposal and sending it back to the European Parliament for further discussion, ministers stuck to their line that foreign importers of digital products, such as music or computer software downloaded from the Internet, should pay VAT, as the goods are consumed within the EU.…