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FRENCH AID
Keith Nuthall
A FRENCH government state aid system for producers of liqueur wines and spirits, funding promotional measures, research, technical support and investment, is under threat, because of a European Court of Justice ruling that it should never have been sanctioned by the European Commission.…
RESEARCH PROGRAMME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MORE details of the European Commission’s plan for a new and Sixth Framework Research Programme have been released from Brussels, with the announcement of a proposed new independent nuclear studies budget of Euro 900 million.
If the plan is approved by the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament, this would be used for research into nuclear fission and fusion “centring around the treatment and storage of nuclear waste as well as reactor safety,” a Commission statement said.…
FIAT-IBM
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has signalled that it is prepared to accept the creation of joint venture companies involving auto-makers and computer suppliers as way of handling IT within the automobile sector, by approving a deal between IBM Italia and Fiat.…
GOTHENBURG SUMMIT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union summit in Gothenburg, Sweden, has agreed a communiqué, stating that the EU must “respond to citizens’ concerns about…. issues related to outbreaks of infectious diseases and resistance to antibiotics.” The heads of government noted the intention of the European Commission to present formal proposals on the subject by the end of this year, signalling that they would try and give them a fair political wind within the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament.…
FOOD INTERNET
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FARMERS and food industry cooperatives have been encouraged by the European Commission to use the Internet as a way of improving communications with fellow producers, processors, distributors and customers.
Speaking to the Praesidium of EU cooperative movement COGECA, information society commissioner Erkki Liikanen urged these rural industries not to miss out on the opportunities offered by the development of e-commerce technologies.…
MINAS DE RIO TINTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has opened a formal investigation into state aid provided by the Spanish government for the restructuring of copper, gold and silver mining company Minas de Rio Tinto SAL, in Huelva.
In 2000, Madrid guaranteed loans of ESP 1,500 million, (Euro 9 million), which were linked to a restructuring plan to turn the company around.…
BEEF, FEED AND ANTI-MICROBIALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGRICULTURE ministers of the 15 EU countries have agreed a seven-point plan to curb beef production. Consumption remains “considerably below normal” and is not expected to recover fully for two years while there is a big backlog of animals to be presented for slaughter later in the year, says the European Commission.…
HOPS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has delayed taking a decision on reforming Europe’s hop subsidy schemes, by agreeing to extend the current flat-rate aid of Euro 480/hectare to hops producers for three more years, up to and including the 2003 harvest.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has tried to make up for its failure to strike fishing access deal with Morocco by forging an improved agreement with its north African neighbour Mauritania which Brussels claims its “the most important with a third country” that it has made.…
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER governments of the European Union now have a legal duty to hold full-scale environmental impact assessments of proposed hotel and tourism projects, when they have called them in from local authorities to make national decisions on planning applications.…