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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FEASIBILITY study is to be staged by the European Union (EU) and Russia into integrating their electricity markets, as part of a wide-ranging series of joint actions on energy policy. These have been agreed in a detailed cooperation “road-map” approved at a Moscow summit by Russian president Vladimir Putin, European Commission president José Manuel Barroso and current EU council president Jean-Claude Juncker, of Luxembourg.…

BY MARK ROWE
LEADING insurance associations have welcomed a recent agreement between the European Union (EU) and Russia that will liberalise the Russian insurance industry. At a summit in Moscow involving Russian President Vladimir Putin and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, the EU and Russia struck a detailed cooperation agreement on a range of economic and trade issues.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANDRIS Piebalgs, the European Union (EU) Commissioner for energy, has announced that energy conservation would be his top overall policy priority for his five-year term, not developing new energy sources. The European Commission will this year launch a ‘European Energy Efficiency Initiative’, he said, setting the EU “an ambitious but realistic and achievable target” to save, by 2010, the equivalent of 70 million tonnes of oil per annum, saving the EU Euro 15 billion annually.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Russia have agreed to deepen their cooperation over judicial matters, examining potential joint projects to “ensure the independence and effectiveness” of both sides court systems. Although this co-operation ‘road map’ approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin and European Commission president José Manuel Barroso is supposedly an equal partnership, the EU is more expected to assist Russian judicial reform than vice versa.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WIDE-RANGING joint-actions involving the European Union (EU) and Russia in terms of environmental policy has been agreed in a cooperation deal forged at a summit in Moscow. Russian president Vladimir Putin, European Commission president José Manuel Barroso and current EU council president Jean-Claude Juncker, of Luxembourg, struck the deal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA has made a commitment to introducing international accounting standards in a cooperation agreement struck with the European Union (EU). Signed in Moscow, the deal commits both sides to “implementation of the highest international standards and norms” in “accounting/auditing and statistics”, boosting “the transparency of the economy and shareholder protection” and “creating favourable conditions for investment”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Russia have agreed to intensify their work together in the nuclear sector, with the industry receiving significant attention in a new detailed cooperation agreement. It said joint nuclear projects would have “particular emphasis on nuclear safety and security”, including information exchanges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Russia have agreed to cooperate to fight customs fraud, using EU anti-fraud office OLAF to coordinate “reliable channels of information exchange” between their respective customs services. This would, said a “road map” agreed at a summit in Moscow “increase the effectiveness” of joint operations.…

Keith Nuthall
RUSSIA has secured the future right to export its vodka and other drinks products to key European Union (EU) export markets at import duty rates charged on cargoes from World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries. Moscow has struck deals on future trade relations with 29 WTO members, including the EU, also setting future tariff levels that Russia will charge on all imported goods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) report has predicted the growth of wood as a power source, noting European forests produce more than is harvested, and countries are developing policies to use surpluses in modern wood-fired energy production.…