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KEITH NUTHALL
IN what could almost be said to be a Brussels tradition, the beginning of the long summer break at the European Commission – when officials disappear to the south of France to lap up the Mediterranean sun – is usually heralded by the announcement of a series of legal cases against Member States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Space Agency-supported satellite ground station has been helping Canadian fire fighters to tackle a spate of large-scale blazes in British Columbia. The

REMSAT unit is driven or flown by helicopter close to a particular fire, establishing a link with satellite cameras, which beam back accurate one-metre resolution images, enabling fire teams to target their work, including the mapping of blaze perimeters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LONG-TERM European Union proposals for streamlined cross-border arrest warrants and taking the first steps towards harmonisation of national criminal laws, are to be fast-tracked as a result of the terrorist disasters in the USA.

Heads of government have met in an emergency session of the European Council, telling the EU Council of Ministers for justice and home affairs to agree these reforms “as a matter of urgency,” imposing a December 7 deadline for action.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SIGNIFICANT opportunities for British and other law firms to practise in China have been opened up following agreement by the Chinese government on the terms of its accession to the World Trade Organisation. The European Commission said there was “great demand” for legal services from western firms as China enters international markets on an unrestricted basis for the first time.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LIAISON committee of the European Union ferro-alloy industry Euroalliages has lost a case at the European Court of Justice, where it was trying to force the European Commission to reconsider its decision not to re-impose anti-dumping duties on imports into the EU of ferro-silicon from Poland and Egypt.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
TUESDAY’S terror attacks in the US will accelerate moves to create a new European Aviation Safety Agency, EU officials said the following day. The European Parliament approved the proposal last week but also wants to set up a new separate authority, on the lines of the US National Transportation Safety Board, to investigate aircraft accidents and make recommendations.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SIX European producers of plastic film are being investigated for possible price-fixing, the European Commission announced today Friday. “Dawn raids” on companies in Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden and the UK, were carried out by competition officials from Brussels, and the national governments on August 22nd announced a spokesman for Mario Monti, EU competition commissioner.…

KEITH NUTHALL
URGENT action to boost airport security in the wake of the destruction of New York’s World Trade Centre has been ordered by the European Union Council of Ministers (transport).

In an emergency session, EU Member States agreed to implement recommedations from the European Civil Aviation Conference,” including recommendations on machine readable travel documents, using accident investigation experts, information and communications and the treatment of inadmissable persons and deportees.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FRANCE has been stingingly rebuffed by a judge of the European Court of Justice over her refusal to let British beef back in after the export ban was lifted by the European Commission in 1999. An Advocate General of the Court – or adviser – says France was in the wrong.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FAMILY law judgements made in the European Union on parental responsibility and access to children, where parents have split and moved to different parts of the EU, would be recognised in every Member State, under a proposal from the European Commission.…