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BY ALAN OSBORN
A PROPOSAL by the European Commission to end discrimination against non-EU nationals in the social security field could help local authority social services departments dealing with new immigrants ensure that their clients receive state benefits.

Brussels says that EU social security co-ordination rules covering the rights of citizens who move from one country to another, (and which up until now relate only to EU nationals, stateless persons, refugees and members of families and survivors of EU nationals), should apply to third country nationals in general.…

Keith Nuthall
THE GROWING thaw in relations between Spain and Britain over the future of Gibraltar and its airport, has prompted the European Commission to retable a long-standing proposal to establish a European Union regime on the safety inspection of aircraft from non-EU countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH formal approval being secured for the launch of the European Food Safety Authority, the European Commission has promised to work swiftly so that the new body can be operational by the end of this year in its temporary home in Evere, north Brussels.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission today (Tuesday) formally proposed that the European Union ratifies the Rotterdam Convention procedure regulating the shipping of hazardous chemicals in international trade, and at the same time proposed that the EU goes further by covering a wider range of chemicals than contained in the Convention.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to provide Euro 115 million in grants, (Pounds 71 million), which could be tapped to support investment into new intermodal freight projects enabling road transport operators to transfer cargo to rail and shipping services.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s transport committee has amended the proposed directive on speed limiters for lorries and buses, so that tighter speed restrictions are imposed on vehicles carrying hazardous goods. MEP’s also voted for Member States to have until January 2004 to write the directive into national law, rather than the January 2003 deadline proposed by the European Commission.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission today (Wednesday) announced new plans for the distribution and sale of cars in the EU that will loosen the ties between manufacturers and dealers allowing greater competition and lower prices for consumers.

The new rules, which cannot be blocked by member governments or the European Parliament because the Commission has sole responsibility for competition policy, will come into force in October after a consultation process with the industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission may threaten legal action against national governments in the European Union, after 12 out of 16 Member States failed to meet the January 16 deadline for implementing the EU e-commerce directive. A statement from Brussels has revealed that only Luxembourg, Austria and Germany approved laws based on the directive by that date.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNOLOGICAL advancement seems to go hand in hand with miniaturisation; witness the development of the mobile phone from its 1980’s high-tech brick to today’s tiny handset; smaller than the devices used by Captain Kirk in the early Star Trek episodes that peered centuries into the future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a report on “Investment in the Community (EU) coal and steel industries” that tracks the sector’s performance in the European Union during 1999. The report predicts that “all the coal-consuming sectors except the steel industry see their requirements declining over the coming years,” faced with the competition of natural gas.…