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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening to take Belgium and Finland to the European Court of Justice, claiming that their mandatory no-claims bonus systems for motor insurance breaks the EU’s third non-life insurance directive.

Brussels claims that the regulations deny insurers the freedom to set scales of premiums allowed in the EU legislation.…

KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH hauliers may not in future find themselves at such a competitive disadvantage with eastern European competitors regarding the commercial transport of animals, because of a planned updating to a Council of Europe welfare convention.

Its commitments apply to countries both outside and within the European Union, where hauliers already have to comply with expensive rules on trailer standards, journey times, rest periods and the watering and feeding of livestock.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers for transport was expected this month (Oct 15) to approve detailed proposals to beef up aviation security within the EU, as a response to the terrorist attacks on the USA and continuing concern about reprisals to the military action launched by the west.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The decision was given impetus by a flurry of emergency meetings held in the wake of the disasters. In an extraordinary European Council in Brussels, the highest decision making body in the EU, presidents and prime ministers told the EU Council of Ministers for transport and for justice and home affairs to press ahead with pan-European security reforms “as a matter of urgency.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been asked to approve an updated list of technology whose export should be tightly restricted because of concerns that in the wrong hands, they could be used to develop military and terrorist weapons. European Commission officials have been reviewing the EU’s list of so-called dual-use goods for more than a year and Brussels now formally proposed its new catalogue of controlled exports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has given the go ahead for the British government to grant Euro 10 million, (Pounds 6.4 million), in state aid to two coal mines, operating losses for 2000 and 2001. The money will go to Longannet Mine of Mining (Scotland) Ltd, (Pounds 5.4 million), and Aberpergwm Colliery of Anthracite Mining Ltd, Wales, (Pounds 1 million).…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally issued an awaited regulation that will require the labels of fish and fish products to contain more detailed information to better inform consumers and help officials police the Common Fisheries Policy.

Under the new rules, from 1 January 2002, all fish products on sale at retailers will have to be labelled with the following information:

*The commercial name of the species, with the common term used in each Member State being used for local sales;

*The production method of the fish, being wild, farmed or cultivated in fresh water or at sea;

*The area where the fish was caught.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has moved to impose 11.3 per cent definitive anti-dumping duties on imports from Japan of internal gear hubs for bicycles, notably those from Shimano Inc. The formal proposal for approval by EU ministers follows an earlier decision to erect provisional anti-dumping duties.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A CONCILIATION committee will be formed to try and broker a deal between the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers over the contentious proposals for an extension of European working time legislation to the road haulage sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has raised concerns about the financial viability of the Galileo global positioning project, passing a critical motion calling on Brussels to “ensure sufficient private sector participation during each step of the project” and guarantee “the financial consequences of a lack of participation by the private sector should not be passed on to the EU or national budgets.”…